Well, every single time a GOP official has pushed back against Trump (see Graham and McCain) liberals have said the same thing: “It’s not enough. What do you want, a medal? Empty words! By the way, remember when McCain said ______?” all while trotting out archaic 25th Amendment pipe dreams and impeachment fantasies.

What’s the converse of purity testing...impurity testing? Whereby every GOP official—whether they’re dumb, shallow, misguided, unqualified, whatever—is ultimately just as malevolent as Steve Bannon? I said this downthread but there will always be bad policy. Bad policy is part of politics. If we had a…

She’s a bad manager. She’s inept and believes in models that are measurably ineffective. There will always be people with terrible policy ideas. Perhaps we have a different definition of “sinister” but I’ll save it for the members of Trump’s circle who truly earn it.

DeVos is a rich lady who accepted a vanity job so she can appear gracious and benevolent in public. It’s volunteering with children, on steroids. She’s not sinister. This is ego-stroking charity work to her. Given the choice between a charitable stance and an uncharitable stance, I expect her to take the more…

I thought she made it through the confirmation process with her dignity intact. I’m not defending her: She’s totally unqualified. But in a cabinet full of outright malevolent characters, she seemed like a polite and decent lady who was in over her head.

It’s a little more complicated than that. The term “Urban Contemporary” was coined by black DJs in the 70s who established platforms and audiences on FM stations playing music that the mainstream wouldn’t give the same attention. On one hand it represents the segregation of music. On the other it was a movement that…

Lately I’ve felt so inundated by all the things that are broken (up to and including Grammy genre categories) that I can’t even muster the will or optimism to fix them—I just want to buy a cheap parcel of land, build a tiny house and figure out some kind of subsistence living for the next 10 years (at least).

So she is permanently broken and he is irredeemably worthless, just so you personally can make a point.

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I agree with that. I was responding to the OP’s basic premise, not the details of the Thicke case specifically.

This “kids know what’s best for themselves” logic is so foreign to me. I only hear it from parents whose children prefer them to their exes, and people who believe that a childhood with elements of severe, dangerous dysfunction is a universal experience. So they’re either operating as an interested party…

I feel for him. He’s an addict and clearly has not found long-term or meaningful recovery, and has some ugly personal consequences to face—like virtually every single addict/alcoholic does.

I don’t know why Beyonce stans need (so badly) for her to be a sophisticated, articulate extemporaneous speaker, writer, etc. She’s not. That’s fine. Many people are not! Particularly people who aren’t classically educated. And that’s not a dig: Beyonce was busy conquering the world of pop music in her teens and young…

I love that the same media cycle that’s commodified Kim Richards’ addiction for years also has shitty things to say about how Eden Sassoon wears her recovery. It pretty much closes the loop and puts a bow on it.

You can enjoy reality TV without taking it seriously. Starting a flame war over the word “golddigger” as it pertains to contestants on The Bachelor is absurd. The fact that these people are thirsty delusional fame and money whores is part of the show’s appeal.

Oh I don’t know anything about her except that she probably hates him. To be clear, I am not vouching for her as a human being. I’m just laying out a plan for independence and revenge.

I like your post. I am unmoved by these ridiculous efforts to defend the dignity of someone who willingly goes on The Bachelor/ette as a suitor or a bachelor/ette.

She needed a better exit strategy. I’d settle for a home, a million dollars in cash, custody of the kids, and the freedom to discuss all details of the marriage and divorce publicly. Then I’d meet with a ghostwriter, fast-track my tell-all, do a TED talk on surviving divorce, and spend the rest of my life giving…