It’s like asking a toddler if he was the one who ate the cookies.

Translation: “Yes, there are allegations against him but I want to work with him because he’s a famous director so I’m going to pretend that he was cleared.”

The surprising thing for me in this case is that it’s an engineering fraternity, rather than a general one. The men I know who have been in engineering frats insist that they’re not wild and actually do help each other study.

The article says $10K from State funding. The rest could be from donations, raised in ticket sales, etc. If you look at coaches’ salaries at public universities, they receive same amount from State funds as a professor does but then the amount is augmented from other sources such as TV rights, ticket sales, alumni…

What assets? It’s all going to end up being cheap smoke and mirrors.

“Concerns regarding graphics in our gymnasium have been dealt with by removing the rebel flags painted on the wall, and by modifying the mural on the wall as well.”

I hope you’re right, but both Woody Allen and Roman Polanski seem to be able to find plenty of people who will forgive them pretty much anything.

Check out the photos Johnson posts on Instagram of he and his daughter. It will restore some of your hope in the male gender.

Stephen Colbert has been married to the same woman since the early 90's and they live in New Jersey. He doesn’t seem to be part of the party or power circuit at all. That’s probably a really good sign.

The line goes further back that that, through the Moral Majority and Nixon making the conscious decision to court the racist vote.

Serious time and regular sessions with a psychiatrist.

Mulder has aged from being an eccentric outsider fighting for the truth into that crazy uncle you don’t want to sit near at family gatherings.

• But how reliable are the book and its author? [Slate]
  

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the lawsuit the Maine Secretary of State (and Commission member) won last week which forces the Commission to explain what they’ve been up to. Nothing at all. Of course.

Have you said that Hawaiians and Samoans are the same in front of Hawaiians and Samoans?

The liquid from around raw shrimp.

I’m an extrovert and would prefer that as well.

Office parties, whether Christmas or the summer picnic, are friggin’ painful. There’s the small value of having an opportunity to talk to people you don’t see often, but mostly it’s standing around chitchatting with people you’d never associate with otherwise or watching people embarrass themselves.

Why did she have her scarf or whatever that is jammed up under her skirt?

““There is a toxic environment for women at this company,” Ms. O’Connor said in the letter, addressed to several executives at the company run by Mr. Weinstein.”