Yeah they’re perpetual goof material but I do so love them.

I know this is a book post but another possibility for this demo is the 40th anniversary edition re-release of A Farewell To Kings by Rush.

That is such a great story.

Same, although I will sheepishly admit to a soft spot for Big Head Todd And The Monsters.

I just have to say that her knowing, hand-on-chin look in that picture is completely charming.

Oh my God I’m a dude and I would piss my pants if I tried that.

Same.

Me too.

I’ll admit it, I thought Ronan Farrow was a legacy hire who wouldn’t distinguish himself more than the typical offspring of the rich and famous. He’s really been great though, maybe the only person who’s had a good year in 2017.

Well at least no one was eating them.

Gah. I read about it over the weekend, I think it was an article on The Hill, so I just skimmed the link here. That’ll teach me.

It turns out he had child porn on his phone and he pleaded to trafficking in a deal, so that changes the context quite a bit.

Thanks. I didn’t see that part in the linked article, see my subsequent replies.

I didn’t know about the child porn part, see my subsequent replies.

Could be, sure. Anyway, there’s this too which I didn’t know about when I originally posted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/

Married couples have been known to have arrangements, cover for each other, etc. It’s rare, and chances are she’s a wronged party too, but we should never presume to know what’s going on inside one.

Whoa. OK then. Thanks for the link, there was a lot more to this than I thought when I posted.

The liberals that exist in the imaginations of conservatives are spectacular.

Also, “repressed bean bag chairs in khakis” is hilarious. 

Part of me wants to be sympathetic and think just imagine the repressed household/community this guy must’ve grown up in, how he’d probably ostracized from his entire social network if he came out, etc. I understand the dynamics that prompt people to live on the DL. “Move to a big city and live your fabulous dream” is…