It a con game however you look at it. That the marks are damaged or entitled or greedy or pathetic doesn’t make the guy taking advantage of them any less of a grifter.

Desperate people prone to magical thinking and a sense that they’re entitled to happiness are alway prime prey for self-aggrandizing con men like this. See also the prospective GOP candidate for President.

It takes imagination and talent to visit the salad bar at Applebees to take the pulse of Real Americans(tm) or to discover the font of geopolitical wisdom that is the International Brotherhood of Cabbies Who Drive Me from the Airport to the 5-Star Hotel. That kind of talent costs money, my friend.

Sounds a lot like how the Cheney administration approached Iraq.

The structures in the Constitution, however wise (checks and balances) or flawed (the electoral college) don’t have any bearing on how the parties choose their nominees. A party can put rules in place as it likes, and one would hope that those rules will be applied equally to all candidates for a nomination.

It doesn’t prove anything and isn’t meant to. It’s an example of how kids can be a closing point even in a marriage that isn’t a closing point in and of itself. That particular marriage might have continued post-kids instead of ending in divorce, but it would not have been a happy one.

Exactly. Sanders and his BernieBros need to understand that Dems will no longer stand for things like closing corporate tax loopholes, re-regulating the banks, investing in public infrastructure, promoting universal health insurance and education, reforming campaign finan...

Oh, wait, you said “liberal,” not…

“Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!”

The amateur grifters can be entertaining, too, in their incompetence.

I took “real” to mean “professional” instead of some rando who does it part-time. Lots of full-time professional con artists out there (NASCAR favorite Drumpf comes to mind).

He wasn’t saying prayer is bad, although it can be destructive to depend mainly on appeals to an invisible man to solve one’s problems. Plus, as George Carlin said, if someone believes in God it’s kind of rude to constantly be bugging Him for stuff.

In the U.S. at least there are certain venues where public prayer is…

I feel where you’re coming from about Clinton, but Virginia isn’t one of those solidly blue states when you can count on the Dem winning even if you write in your preferred primary candidate on principle. I doubt you want to assume any guilt for Drumpf or Cruz choosing the next SCOTUS Justice by sitting things out.

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When they come out of that extremely funny clip and everyone is laughing, you can see the genuine expression of loss on Conan’s face, knowing that he’ll never be able to collaborate with Shandling like that again.

Given his aversion to empathy, perhaps he’s a sociopath. The smart and educated ones are very adept at trying to justify the unjustifiable.

No, because $20k a year is a minimum wage job in Oregon.

If you read the article he notes he’s $4,550 in arrears for his daughter.

No, but he can start hitting those arrears. You don’t think he can pay off $4,550 (plus interest) over 2 years grossing $20k/annum? The guy has to start somewhere.

I hope he reads your comment. This would be the perfect job for a decent writer who’s good at explaining things and who obviously cares about education and kids’ well-being. That job would likely bring in more than $15k a year to start. If he could find a teaching job in an underserved area of Oregon (where the cost…

That’s more a failure of Gawker’s (probably nonexistent) copy editing department. Although people who write for Gawker should understand that and proof their own stuff carefully (especially ones who are partially doing it to get noticed by other outlets).