If you don’t have different countries competing to host every two years, how is the IOC going to justify those huge bribes?

Brick Ostenpfeffer

Just want to say thank you for your reporting. Not just this story but just in general. Everything you write is well researched, well reasoned and always leaves me thinking. Thank you.

If Trump killed all our crops because he heard from one of his buddies that plants crave electrolytes; I honestly would not be surprised.

Nope, sorry but he’s the worst. I’m mexican and I can tell you he’s a racist (he once commented that mexicans were doing the jobs that not even “the blacks” would do), misogynistic dumbass, he’s kind of like Trump in that he was a businessman and not a politician, before he was elected threw tantrums (as in repeatedly…

Don’t be ignorant while trying to be cute. This man has the I.Q. and governing abilities of George W. Bush, and was president through a vicious anti-LGBT, anti-woman, classist, right-wing political party. He won the election precisely by being an ass that everyone wanted to have a beer with, mixed with the fact that…

Every time I read about them I have to think about Tina and Amy’s joke at the Golden Globes:

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I thought Bellaire was its own little municipality.

NYE in East Houston sounds like Beirut in the 80's.

When ever I hear that “I believe in second chances” bullshit, all I can think is that I believe in earning second chances. They’re not given to you, they’re earned. 

its god’s mix tape.

Unless something goes horribly wrong, all cruise ships are floating cruise ships.

This is utterly pedantic but it’s “off the SHOULDER of Orion”. Like, the constellation.

A lot of people agree with you. I think he looks better with a beard.

After he takes office, there is a comprehensive array of rules that govern public access to what goes on, and these NDAs would have no force or effect.

I’m guessing there really isn’t a lot to disclose. It’s just a bunch of people looking at each other and asking “what the fuck are we doing? Someone put a mirror under Carson’s nose.”

I’ve been dealing with major insomnia and feelings of total insignificance lately, but I managed my first decent drawing in months last night. I also did a free bookbinding class a few weeks ago, and made this nifty little guy:

Dear Maggie,

Ugh, the issue of donors saying “Briles is a good man” after all of this is exactly why I have such mixed feelings about the Bears for Leadership Reform group. Everything they’re calling for—more transparency from the Board of Regents (which has been needed for years) and a full release of the Pepper Hamilton…