Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Let’s finish the job.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

You cannot shame the shameless.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    Well, Buzzfeed just published a lengthy profile of Juanita Broaddrick.

    Trump last night said “Thank God we had the dress!” re Monica’s infamous blue dress.

    I predict we’re about to have 7-10 days’ worth of Bill splooge.

  4. 4.

    gogol's wife

    @Trentrunner:

    I’m sorry, call me a cockeyed optimist (no pun intended), but I think people are sick of that. He’s an old geezer now, it has no frisson.

  5. 5.

    Trentrunner

    @redshirt: He did indeed. I’m surprised it wasn’t more covered.

    That and similar lack of coverage on Melanoma’s nude lesbian portfolio show just how insane Trump’s other remarks have been. What the media used to feed on for weeks gets nearly zero coverage.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    @Trentrunner: I’d rather they talk about the Trump policies. Let’s remove all the banking regulations on mortgages, because they really are sorry and won’t tank the economy again. Let’s let those who don’t pay payroll taxes, take money from social security to pay for child care, because social security is funded, let’s lower the top one percent taxes, cuz……… and let’s increase spending on roads and vets cuz that pays for itself. Yeah, I’d love to talk about those issues.

  13. 13.

    PsiFighter37

    Stuck at St. Louis airport waiting for my airplane. Good weekend overall, but getting a bit nervous for this regulatory exam I have in a week. I have taken 4 practice exams and failed two (barely – by 2-4 questions). I’m a bit worried about the possibility of failing. Teaching yourself brand-new shit, outside of a classroom environment, on top of a day job, is very difficult.

  18. 18.

    dexwood

    @Ken:
    The suit is reversible to white with a pop-up hood. He has the best tailors with all the best threads.

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    Politico (yes, I know): RNC considers cutting cash to Trump:

    Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump. Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to save endangered congressional majorities.
    Since the Cleveland convention, top party officials have been quietly making the case to political journalists, donors and GOP operatives that the Republican National Committee has done more to help Trump than it did to support its 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, and that therefore Trump has only himself and his campaign to blame for his precipitous slide in the polls, according to people who have spoken with Republican leadership.

    Of course, there’s no need to rush into anything:

    To this point, Spicer has suggested a mid-October deadline for turning around the presidential campaign, suggesting last week to reporters and in separate discussions with GOP operatives that it would cause serious concern inside the RNC if Trump were to remain in a weakened position by then.

    Mid October? You’d think maybe Labor Day at the latest if you want your triage attempt to have any hope of working.

  21. 21.

    sigaba

    I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU AMERICA! THOUGH I THINK WE WILL DO VERY WELL.

    @Baud: He prefers the saviors that didn’t get caught.

  23. 23.

    gf120581

    @dmsilev: For comparison, when did they triage Bob Dole in 1996?

    I’m not sure that’s a good plan to try again, either, since Dole was a well-respected guy who was running a professional campaign, while Trump is the exact opposite. Dole didn’t have the ability to wreck havoc on the downballot like Trump. (The situation isn’t the same either, esepcially in the Senate; in 1996, the Dems were defending more seats and had a lot of open seats to try and protect, while this year, the GOP is almost entirely on the defense.)

  28. 28.

    msdc

    Oh, you better elect me, folks, I’ll never speak to you again.

    [CHEERS]

    I know I’m misreading the transcript, but this is fucking hilarious.

  30. 30.

    frosty

    @PsiFighter37:

    Teaching yourself brand-new shit, outside of a classroom environment, on top of a day job, is very difficult.

    I agree. I took the EIT and Professional Engineer exams 15 years out of school. Basically checked textbooks and exam preps out of the library and worked problems for a year for each.
    Passed, though. Hang in there.

  31. 31.

    lamh36

    Only with Usain Bolt is 9.86…an “easy 9,86” then the bastard slowed down!
    #Olympics #UsainBolt

    and then he smiled at the end

  33. 33.

    Corner Stone

    @lamh36: It’s nuts. In his first heat he looked around three times and still won. This pre-lim he looked both ways once and still hit 9.86. And was coasting.

  35. 35.

    Tom Q

    @gf120581: Yeah, 1996 was more a matter of “we’re happy with our incumbent president and want to see him stick around”; no one cringed at the idea of Dole being elected, the way many do about Trump now.

    And, as you say, the field was not as ripe for picking, as 1990 had been a Dem-leaning/mostly stable class. It’s when you have a group of Senators elected in a tilt-one-direction election facing the opposite six years later that you have the possibility for significant change (as in 2008/2014).

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    @Villago Delenda Est: They’re not really idiots, but rather are trying to come up with a solution to an impossible problem: Trump is beloved by his base, but hated by the not-base; how do you run candidates who can appeal to the latter and still keep some support from the former? Now, it’s true that decades of deliberate Republican decisions have brought them to this point, so we should indeed sit back and revel at their agony, but it’s not really the fault of the current generation of apparatchiks.

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @dmsilev: Oh, they became apparatchiks because of what the partei has become over the last 50 years. They need to suffer for that.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    I’m having goat biryani for dinner tonight and there’s nothing any of y’all can do about it.

    ETA, speaking of being so lucky.

  44. 44.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mike J: No, because it was short.

    FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts. It’s like FYWP is working for Drumpf, now that I think about it.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    @Villago Delenda Est: @raven:

    His name’s Gable. He’s around three years old. He came from the same breeder from whom Spouse got the puppy earlier this year. He’s of the long-and-lean variant, probably weighs around 120.

    Apparently I am fated to live out the remainder of my days in a three-dog household, and I have nothing to say about it.

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    @Renie: Do you think he really considers the option that someone would choose to hurt him? Doesn’t he have all those type of loons in his pocket?

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    “Here I am again on my own!” “Going down the only road I’ve ever known!”

    Anthems for children, sponsored by your friendly local WalMart.

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    So half an hour from my destination, I ran over a thing in the road and blew out my front left tire. OnStar is keeping me company and I’m waiting for a cop and a repair person to show up. It’s dark, I’m hungry and tired from driving, and I have to pee.

  59. 59.

    JMG

    @lamh36: This is the media outlet most famous for outing gay Olympic athletes from violently anti-gay countries? And they’re supposed to be treated as anything but useless slime walking? Anyone working for Buzzfeed is lucky if they’re not urinated on in public.

  62. 62.

    raven

    @redshirt Schlemazel: I’m all right thanks. They went to a split deal on drinking the stuff so I knocked out the first half-gallon from 6-7. I get up at 2am and do the rest so I should be pretty whack by my 7am appointment. I really hope people are not afraid of this, it really isn’t more than an inconvenience and the alternative can be really bad.

    eta My biggest regret is that I didn’t schedule the hernia procedure so I could have had the Olympics during the recovery.

  65. 65.

    Mike J

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts.

    For some reason it’s eating any comment I post with youtube links. I’ll try one last time with a shortener. It’s really not even worth it. It’s just low wind sailing around back to the dock.

  66. 66.

    Schlemazel

    @raven:
    Yeah, it is not painful or awful (I have done much much much worse) but it is no fun. I have 8 years before I have to do it again.

    I wonder though how many people don’t do the whole thing. I did exactly as told & the doctor just raved about how well I had prepped. I have heard other people say similar so it makes me think you would not have to really do it all but the over recommend because most people cheat.

  69. 69.

    Villago Delenda Est

    OT, sort of: The mega-sewer that is Infowars.com is reporting that Hillary has Parkinson’s, based on a “source” that is in the Secret Service. Probably the dildos on the Christmas Tree guy.

  70. 70.

    dmsilev

    Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief

    Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.

    The papers, known in Ukraine as the “black ledger,” are a chicken-scratch of Cyrillic covering about 400 pages taken from books once kept in a third-floor room in the former Party of Regions headquarters on Lipskaya Street in Kiev. The room held two safes stuffed with $100 bills, said Taras V. Chornovil, a former party leader who was also a recipient of the money at times. He said in an interview that he had once received $10,000 in a “wad of cash” for a trip to Europe.

    “This was our cash,” he said, adding that he had left the party in part over concerns about off-the-books activity. “They had it on the table, stacks of money, and they had lists of who to pay.”

    The National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which obtained the ledger, said in a statement that Mr. Manafort’s name appeared 22 times in the documents over five years, with payments totaling $12.7 million. The purpose of the payments is not clear. Nor is the outcome, since the handwritten entries cannot be cross-referenced against banking records, and the signatures for receipt have not yet been verified.

    Huh.

    Funny that this is the guy who Trump chose as his campaign chair. So, how about those Trumpian tax returns and rumors of Russian money?

  72. 72.

    raven

    @Schlemazel: I read somewhere that fewer than 50% of eligible folks do it. I got put on a 2 year rotation after my last one so maybe I’ll be luckier this time. There is so much valuable information on the internet but it is also easy to get really negative stuff if you read input from “patients”. Maybe it helps to have survived some really horrible accidents and KNOW that, in may cases, pain is temporary.

  73. 73.

    gf120581

    @burnspbesq: I was lucky to see a premiere screening two weeks ago at Michael Moore’s film festival in Traverse City (even if it was nearly two hours late because that egotistical fatass wouldn’t keep his previous Q&A to schedule and get off the stage). It’s a must see. If you can see it, see it.

  76. 76.

    Baud

    @Schlemazel:

    The current men’s world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaica’s Usain Bolt in 2009, while the women’s world record of 10.49 seconds set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 remains unbroken.

  78. 78.

    Mike J

    @Villago Delenda Est: My links weren’t naked, and I only had two links. Also,m it wasn;t throwing them into moderation as it does in those cases, it was just eating them the way it does if you use a banned user’s name.

  79. 79.

    lamh36

    Wow…this South African runner Van Niekerk’s story is so interesting…
    #Olympics #Rio2016 Good luck to him!
    #trackandfield

    I saw the story where his mom was a great athlete but wasn’t allowed to compete during apartheid goverment because only whites were allowed to compete internationally

  80. 80.

    gene108

    @lamh36:

    Not saying the story should or should not be told, but if the story wasn’t meant to titallate or for clickbait, it’s one thing, but has anyone heard any MSM stories on Trump rape allegations?

    Nope.

    The fact there’s a civil suit stemming from the rape allegations winding its way through court – along with all the other lawsuits he’s involved with – should be an issue, if President Trump comes to pass.

    How much time will he be Presdident-in’ and how much will be spent in court?

    But no one in the media bothers with this. Sad. Believe me.

  81. 81.

    burnspbesq

    @gf120581:

    Thanks. It’s pretty unusual for there to be two movies out at the same time that I’m interested in seeing, but that one and Equity have my attention.

    Even Denzel’s presence can’t get me interested in a remake of The Magnificent Seven.

  83. 83.

    Schlemazel

    @Baud:
    so the boys HS record is half a second better than the womens world record & half a second off the mens. That is very surprising to me. No way I would have guess an 18 year old (or younger) could run that

  86. 86.

    Schlemazel

    @Mike J:
    you might have used one of the banned words like ‘relax” or a dozen other we are not told are forbidden

  87. 87.

    different-church-lady

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts.

    Rule of thumb: once it gets beyond a ‘graph, I’m copying the text to my clipboard frequently as I go.

  90. 90.

    Schlemazel

    @lamh36:
    I hate when they make me care about the participants. Mostly because so often the reasons they think I should care are just notworth caring about. This guy however really has a story to care about. Glad he won!

  91. 91.

    Kay

    Moment of Truth op-ed in the WSJ.

    It’s behind a wall, but they name Gingrich and Chris Christie and the “talk radio Right” as selling the idea that Trump could beat Clinton.

    They’re holding out hope for post Labor Day, though. I think politicians can stand anything except for becoming a joke. I thought Trump was a (bad) joke all along, but if there’s a point where he just becomes an object of derision he’s dead as a political figure. I hope we’re nearing that.

  92. 92.

    lamh36

    From Lane 8 where “no one wins”

    And he broke Micheal Johnson’s record…BIG!

    And his coach is 74 years old!

    I’m as excited for him as I would be or the US athlete!

    Johnson’s record was 17 years old!

  95. 95.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    @Schlemazel: Please, remember that he and Wolf Blitzer have merged into one unholy Villager, a nearly fictitious entity of self-absorbed circle-jerking, mentioned in the same hushed whispers as the Loch Ness Monster and Yetis. And that person’s name is Wake Blapper.

    “When you’ve lost Wake Blapper…”

  96. 96.

    Schlemazel

    @Baud:
    also too, was she not found to have been doping?

    One of the things that has really put me off the Olympics is the number of champions that have been shown to have used PEDs. I was never a big fan of Lance Armstrong but the Mrs was a huge fan & would get angry when reports of his doping would appear. Now she refuses to watch bike racing because everyone cheat (well maybe only the winners). Sadly I feel similarly about all sports now. They might just as well make it legal & see how far the users are willing to take it.

  98. 98.

    dmsilev

    @Kay: You can access WSJ articles without a subscription by going to Google and doing a search on the article title. From that article,

    Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.

    If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.

    Basically all of these op-eds and conservative think-pieces and so forth boil down to “Trump can win if he has a radical personality transformation”. Inspiring!

  104. 104.

    Mary G

    @Schlemazel: I had Crohn’s disease in the 80s and had a bunch of colonoscopies with the old style prep with no trouble. When they went to the gallon of stuff I couldn’t keep it down after the second glass. They kept telling me to do my best, I barfed all night, then they complained about the lousy prep. I know I am way overdue but I’m not going back.

  105. 105.

    lamh36

    @AdamWeinstein
    Speaking as someone who has a story coming this week: This is just the beginning for Manafort. It gets worse.

  107. 107.

    trollhattan

    @lamh36:
    I was at the US Track and Field championships when Michael Johnson had his coming out party. In the 200 final he pulled up before the finish, winning but not breaking the world record that was easily in reach. The crowd knew it; you could hear the “Uhnnnn-hmm” circling the stands and the folks in the know had it as him holding back for the worlds and the higher sponsor bonus for breaking it there. All I can say is I was sorry not to see him smash the record that he’d eventually own like a comfy pair of Levis.

    Track is a great spectator sport, best when it’s open seating like at that meet. Nothing quite like sitting by Bob Kersee coaching Jackie from the stands.

  111. 111.

    Keith P.

    100m men’s finals is about to start. This is the only night I’ve watched the Olympics.

  118. 118.

    Kay

    @dmsilev:

    The funniest part of the whole thing is Mike Pence. Mike Pence was in trouble in Indiana. Now they’re turning him into this statesman that everyone has always thought should be President.

    Mike Pence never would have won that primary. He would have been 2nd tier. Walker and Christie were their big governor stars and they BOTH did poorly.

    I wonder if it’s a kind of triage. Pence could keep the religious Right and the Money Party people and they are willing to throw the Trump low information/openly racist base under the bus to keep those two factions. Bush was Money Party and religious Right. That’s a coalition that has worked for them.

  121. 121.

    Keith P.

    Wow, watching Bolt catch Gatlin was pretty incredible. That was a substantial lead halfway through.

  123. 123.

    raven

    My dad knew the great Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley, Jamaican sprinter who went to Illinois!

  126. 126.

    Kay

    @dmsilev:

    I’m delighting in it because it’s clear Trump didn’t know how hard it is, running for President. That arrogance drives me up the wall- this “oh, that’s easy” about what other people achieve. This idea that anyone can just jump in and do anyone else’s job has to end. It’s delusional. You see it so much on the Right- they’re always fulminating about incompetence and how any of them could do any job better. Chris Christie is the worst offender. “Glorified babysitters” for teachers. Chris Christie would last 15 minutes in charge of a room full of children.

  129. 129.

    raven

    @JPL: This is 84 in LA. We were in the 4th row for Edwin Mose’s gold medal (they were probably Russian tickets that went on sale when they boycotted). While it’s hard to see, this is Joanie Benoit getting her Gold Medal for the marathon that was run that morning.

  130. 130.

    grandpa john

    @Mary G: I had one last year and had the choice of using an alternate that used something that you mixed with gator aide or some other sports drink. It worked fine for me and didn’t taste bad. my colon was totally clean, no polyps, and at age 78 am through with them.

  131. 131.

    Martha from Augusta

    @lamh36: Good to see that Adam’s landed on his feet. I was disappointed that Gawker did to him what Thiel did to Gawker.

  132. 132.

    dmsilev

    @Kay: The NYT had a story up yesterday on the implosion of the Trump campaign, and one of the commenters made a very good point. While our long campaign season is irritating for lots of reasons, one very good thing about it is that it lets us see how the nominee performs managing a big organization performing a very complicated task. Obama faced that test and passed with flying colors. Trump is failing it badly.

  134. 134.

    Schlemazel

    @Mary G:
    I suppose it does no good to talk to your doctor because of course they know better than you.

    Sorry you have to go through that crap. I am having a similar problem with a series of urologists. I am going to a new one but it takes 8 weeks to get in for new patients.

  136. 136.

    JPL

    @raven: Neat.. It never dawned on me to take pics of tickets, but I wish I did. As I mentioned before my youngest was near the bombing area. My son told a nice police man that he was going to call his mom even though the pay phones were roped off. After a few more I’m going to call my f…king mom, his friend dragged him off.

  138. 138.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Hal:

    It’s always perplexing to me that Bill cheating on Hillary is a negative for Hillary.

    Oh, it’s feeds the internal narrative among these old white guys that women are inferior because you can cheat on them and so on.

  139. 139.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Mike J:

    I don’t know what specific strings trigger it, but I have found that there are some YouTube addresses that FYWP doesn’t like. It’s strange because YouTube addresses don’t contain recognizable words.

  140. 140.

    lamh36

    @Technocrat:

    ‏@KVanValkenburg 4m4 minutes ago
    God: I’m going to make the fastest human ever
    St. Peter: Ok
    God: He needs an appropriate last name, tho
    St. Peter: I have a family in mind

  141. 141.

    Kay

    @dmsilev:

    Thank God it’s so long with Trump, huh? We still know nothing about him. They don’t know who he owes and how much he owes. That’s an essential question and the GOP primary process failed as a political market. They didn’t raise any of that. The GOP political process itself is a market failure :)

  142. 142.

    mike in dc

    Even after he loses(God willing) reporters should keep asking him when he’s going to release his tax returns. Forever.

  143. 143.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @lamh36: Bolt always (at least in the races I’ve seen him in) slows down at the end. It would be really neat to see him run flat out before he retires. He’s amazing and it would be great to know how quickly he can really go.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  144. 144.

    grandpa john

    @raven: Yeah that would work, I can’t remember the name of the stuff I used, I had to mix it with something sugar free because I am diabetic on an insulin pump.

  146. 146.

    Kay

    @dmsilev:

    Hah! A new wrinkle:

    Corey LewandowskiVerified account
    ‏@CLewandowski_
    Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief

    So Manafort is the sacrificial lamb? Let the blaming begin.

  148. 148.

    J R in WV

    @burnspbesq:

    “… doomed to live in a three dog household…”

    That’s a good thing, Burns, because if you run into a three-dog night, cold, cold cold! you will have the necessary three dogs.

  150. 150.

    Kay

    Next week in Donald Trump’s campaign:

    $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments to Paul Manafort from pro-Russia party in Ukraine, per investigators

  151. 151.

    dmsilev

    @Kay: It honestly amazes me that none of his primary opponents tried to make an issue of his murky finances and business screw-ups. Maybe it wouldn’t have worked given his support base, but they didn’t really even try. Sure, Romney gave that one speech, but that was really about it.

  153. 153.

    dmsilev

    @Kay: Well, Cory probably has an animus towards Manafort seeing as Manafort was part of the anti-Cory coup, so I wouldn’t make too much of that. But still, fun to watch and makes you wonder how much other …interesting stories are going to pop up in the next month or so.

    And again, none of Trump’s primary opponents even tried to investigate him.

  154. 154.

    Technocrat

    @Kay:

    Lewandowski threw him under the bus!!?? Ohh, man revenge is a dish best served ice cold.

    Manafort doesn’t look like the kind of guy you cross though. Those dead eyes, and flat effect. My gut says he is a dangerous person.

  160. 160.

    patrick II

    @Mary G:

    You have heard of the new tests where you just send in a stool sample? That is a test for cancer, so I am not sure if it applies.

  161. 161.

    nutella

    Donald Trump Jr., said in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

    I believe I saw somewhere that this is on video, but I’ve lost the link. Quote above from Vox.

  162. 162.

    nutella

    @nutella:

    Longer quote from DT Jr:

    “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., said at a real estate conference in 2008, according to a trade publication, eTurboNews.

    from Time

  163. 163.

    J R in WV

    @Schlemazel:

    I did it some time back, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as, for example, food poisoning or intestinal infection of some kind. Been there, done that.

    You do empty out, but you don’t (I didn’t, anyway) experience the cramps and nausea that accompanies other emptying out events.

    After the actual ‘scopy my first recollection is tying my shoes in the hall with wife and doctor… feeling actually pretty great. I wonder what I said before I came to, on the way to the hall…

  164. 164.

    Schlemazel

    @J R in WV:
    I was disappointed, I wanted to watch on the TV screen. Whatever they give you is an interesting drug because it just erases time but does not leave you groggy.

  166. 166.

    J R in WV

    @Schlemazel:

    Yeah, I said I wanted to watch the TV while they were prepping, and they both (Dr and nurse/assistant) said “No, you don’t!” in unison.

    Then she put me out.

  169. 169.

    Candia

    @ThresherK (GPad): Sorry for butting in, but that reminds me of “In the Heights”, the musical LMM wrote before “Hamilton”. The protagonist is Usnavi – his Dominican parents named him after the first ship they saw when they came to the US – it was a US Navy ship. Always cracks me up.

  170. 170.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Candia: One tradition of the Hmong people is/was to choose to name a child after something that they admired. My mom, as a ESL teacher with primarily Hmong students, once had a student named TransAm.

  172. 172.

    Emma

    @Candia: One of my father’s college buddies in Cuba was also Usnavi. Same reason. His father had seen an American ship in the harbor in La Habana.

  173. 173.

    RadioOne

    I feel that all of this is definitely going to work out for Trump somehow. It’s just a feeling, but

  174. 174.

    Vhh

    @dmsilev I know a bit about Russia, and this is scary shit, not least because it will poison important US-Russia relations for decades. The US and Russia have many common interests, and we should not hate them nor they, us.

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