I’m inclined to agree with you, but then I think of the wild card as a compromise for the disproportionate penalty she received for her doping. (I cannot stand Sharapova, but I winced when the punishment came down.)

That update is shit. “Once other shelters are full”? Ah yes, Jesus gracciously said, “You must care for ths sick, the poor, the widowed. Me? I’m back-up.”

I’ve never gotten over the self-loathing and ethnic anxiety it takes for a man named Arpaio to be doing this.

His actual words were that he thought ratings would be higher WHEN he made the announcement, not that he made the announcement FOR ratings.

Assume he meant what he said? So, assume when he said he would release tax returns, he would? Assume when he said would drain the swamp, he would? Assume when he said he had the largest inaugural crowd, he did?

Concern trolling is not something I engage in. Note present and firm been tense; I don’t even know why that phrase was invoked.

Yes! Thanks for this! Chomsky visited our campus a decade or so ago, and the line was miles long, which was heartening. Chomsky was brilliant as usual.

I wish I could take more pleasure in this. Just met a lovely brother who told me that he was brought up as a Baptist, but didn’t retain the scripture as much as he would have liked, so he reads Joel Osteen and tony Evans for guidance. As an atheist who was also raised Baptist, and studied the scripture both…

Not accidental is right.

One of the ironies of the right is their denigration of the “elite” left, where “elite=intellectual.” As you rightly observe, Buckley portrayed himself as an elite, but was no match for those who were capable of combining reason and empathy to salutory effect. All he had was upper crust affect. Now, we have Buckley…

I absolutely agree. I remember people claiming that he was the only one on the right who could match Christopher Hitchens’ leftist intellect, yet, what I saw was a completely lopsided verbal display of power from Hitchens. Buckley’s parry with Gore Vidal? Not even close. How unctuous Buckley fooled the public into…

This is a disingenuous headline. Trump did not pardon Arpaio for ratings. He was anticipating, refuting the notion that he pardoned surreptitiously, when attention was elsewhere. He preemptively defended his action to indicate that he wasn’t acting cowardly, but boldly.

For real. rewatched the Baldwin-Buckley debate, where Buckley, lauded as emblematic of the good, intelligent Republican/conservative, champions a Western culture he considers to be dissipating.

I call bullshit on the premise, but Sam Woodley’s image can stay.

Paris Jackson’s outfit is the best; it’s interesting and blends youth and maturity. Yara looks great, as always, although the outfit is boring.

I thought that was going to be the feminist part she would cite! The whole movie passes muster as feminist.

I would not be surprised to hear that Abigail Fisher funded this film.

I come from a family full of educators, and they are stellar—educated, honest, empathetic. The talent pool, though, is drastically shrinking, and they are confronted with multiple ironies, including being a lone/minor voice in a forest of assholes, leaving the profession, meaning students are at the mercy of assholes.

There are public school teachers who have outright called Muslim students “terrorist” and “rag headed Taliban,” and they are still teaching. There are so many educators who are poisoning children, against themselves and others.

Trying to imagine Taylor listening to Run the Jewels...