I’m hoping for something like what happened to the Democrats in 1968: Shitshow of a convention, resulting in a weakened, deeply divided Republican Party. But without the preceding assassination.

Via the New York Times: “In court, a prosecutor said Dr. Newman had made a target of young minority women.”

Oh, so he’s a perv and he doesn’t wash his hands before treating patients!

Baby steps.

My sister-in-law and her husband both changed their names to a new one. She says the only trouble with this is that people assume she took his name.

Is Roman named after Roman Polanski? Or are those just regular old porn star names?

The way things are heading, I wouldn’t be surprised by assassination attempts on one or more of the candidates.

What an ordeal. I haven’t been following this, but I wonder why the judge didn’t stop him from badgering her on the stand. There are limitations to the kind of questions you can ask in court, and if you persist, isn’t that contempt of court?

Lots of Twitter comments about not bowing to “Victorian prudery.” Aargh!

I can sort of see why people confuse parole and probation, but bail?

Even if he wasn’t lying, it’s a perfect example of “well, the rules don’t apply to me!"

When somebody makes that claim, I want to ask “why not?” I mean, what possible explanation could there be for why you couldn’t get pregnant the first time you have sex?

Yes, I think we can acknowledge that indentured servitude was brutal and terrible without equating it with race-based chattel slavery. Three big differences:

Apparently he’s getting lots of backlash, because that “clarification” is no longer up.

My daughter was obsessed by Life of Birds for several years. She totally imprinted on David Attenborough (and so did I).

You really have to wonder why he ever got into politics.

Guys like this usually have a “quietly supportive” girlfriend.

The first (and only) role I ever saw him in, the whole point of the character was to be gorgeous but otherwise uninteresting.

Indeed:

IMO, one of the things the TV show misses is that this is a very international community.