There’s nothing wrong with dyeing one’s hair. I do it occasionally, and my daughter used to dye her hair a different color every week. There is something wrong with ridiculing people for their appearance, but with egregiously awful human beings such as these, the normal rules of civility are more difficult to follow, so I hope you’ll let it slide.
And besides, Padma Lakshmi started it…
The border Stephen Miller should actually focus on pic.twitter.com/cp7QGdPli6
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) December 17, 2018
…and then she replied to MY tweet about HER tweet…
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) December 17, 2018
…so now I am deceased, obviously. Go ahead and criticize a dead woman for hair-shaming, if that makes you feel better.
Open thread!
Reconsidering The Steele Dossier
dmsilev
As someone else on Twitter pointed out, we should feel sorry for Mr. Miller. It’s not easy to fix your hair when, as a vampire, you don’t reflect in mirrors.
(excuse me, ‘Hemovore-American’)
chopper
if drumpf is going to spend so much time judging people (mostly women) by the way they look, we’re certainly free to point out that he, and the people he surrounds himself with, all look like buffoons.
wtf is with melania’s hair? did she get stuck going with her husband’s guy and he gave her the “onion loaf” or whatever the hell his haircut is called? is she growing out a toupee for donald?
Corner Stone
I’ll never believe that pic of Melania is not photoshopped.
Corner Stone
And while we’re self-indulging in lookism…mmmmm…Padma…
Bill K
Live and let dye, I say.
Stuart Frasier
It would be one thing if it were just hair dye. However, it appears to be some sort of spray-on fake hair. I remember there was a late night advertisement for such a product when I was a kid.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Why are you mocking Loud Obbs’ coiffe-tribute to Ronald Reagan?
Betty Cracker
SO true.
JPL
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had the opportunity to spray fake hair on Miller?
stibbert
i was reading tweets about chia pet miller last night – he’s already earned our derision, so i’m glad to see him wearing it.
Kay
I feel like it’s connected, though. They think it looks GREAT and also REAL and also that they are fooling people. Trump’s cotton candy pompadour is teased to hide the fact that he’s 3/4’s bald. Hide! Like it does that!
That’s the thing. It’s part and parcel of how insane they all are.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Heh.
Has a brace of Afghan hounds entered in the big dog show. Hilarity ensues.
Corner Stone
@JPL: I’d vote to give him the wild, untameable Duck Dynasty beard version of a Rasputin.
Adam L Silverman
@Stuart Frasier: I had my hair cut yesterday. I showed the picture to my barber. She said flat out that was spray on, especially when shown a picture of his from earlier in the year in a side by side comparison.
Kay
Why all of a sudden, too? We knew what he looked like. Isn’t it too late?
Not to him! Because he’s bonkers.
trollhattan
Whatever material is on Miller’s pointed head, it would make a fine surface for billiards or miniature golf.
Adam L Silverman
Dorothy A. Winsor
Making fun of an appearance someone can’t help (a nose or close-set eyes, frex) is different than making fun of something they do to themselves.
dmsilev
@Corner Stone: There are some things that even Adobe refuses to do.
MattF
I’m worried that the next step is the WH minions shaving their heads.
SiubhanDuinne
I keep insisting I will not say anything about physical appearance,
But then along comes Melania and I’m like a bargain-hunter at a Filene’s Basement clearance.
It’s petty of me, but I must admit I am not the least bit fond
Of Melania as a blonde.
In addition, I find myself rather frightened
By photos showing how much, over the past two years, her face has tightened.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
apparently it’s a symptom of her kidney condition
Corner Stone
@dmsilev: Melania looks like a serious grandmother (nothing wrong with gammies!), whose wife beating wearing unemployed welder boyfriend is still asleep in the trailer behind her at 1PM and she’s just lit the last cig of her second pack today.
Mornington Crescent
I remember the ads for the hair in a can. No longer will people say “Hey, it’s the bald guy.” They’ll say “Hey, it’s the guy with paint on his head.”
Kent
Conversation I had last weekend with a right-wing MAGA cousin of mine about asylum. She is narrow-minded, evangelical, and kind of dumb:
“You remember when we used to watch “The Sound of Music” right?” (it was a favorite family sing-along movie)
Yes….
Remember how it ended?
Um….yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDFoF9sfQA
So why did they sneak into Switzerland illegally? Why didn’t they just go to the official border crossing?
Um…..but that was DIFFERENT.
Because they were white and rich and leaving for political reasons and not brown and poor and fleeing violence?
No, the times were just different. It was the Nazis.
So at least you agree that there are circumstances when it might be necessary to flee across borders illegally before requesting asylum? And that there were very good reasons to allow that sort of thing in the 1951 International Refugee Convention to which the US was a signatory?
I guess so. But still. That was way different from today. They didn’t have caravans back then.
Oh really?
trollhattan
@Kay:
His exploratory committee is probably doing a slow makeover for the campaign.
The Moar You Know
As a survivor of many self-done hair dye jobs as a working musician, and having had a few girlfriends who also altered the color of their hair, I’m just gonna come right out and say it: Melania’s looks like shit. 100% garbage. That is a dye job that my wife’s hairdresser would kill herself over, and with good cause. I’ve done DIY to be deliberately shocking that didn’t look that bad.
It REALLY doesn’t match her skin tone, it’s not layered, she wasn’t pre-bleached and it frankly makes her look ill. She can easily afford better and should demand better.
Miller’s gone the Chevy Chase/Paul Simon route with the spray on hair nubbies, I see. That shit doesn’t work.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Kid ‘n Slay
Olivia
It looks to me like Stephan Miller is trying to impress some woman or man he fancies. Showing up on HD tv with a head full of iron filings like Wooly Willie is probably the best he could do to deflect from his personality. Too bad he didn’t go for the beard also.
zhena gogolia
@Kent:
At least the caravans didn’t sing so long farewell auf wiedersehn good night or whatever it was
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne:
The side effects from her kidney procedure are a recurring problem.
rm
Melania is starting to look like Donald.
C Stars
How much you wanna bet Dear Tweeter put Minion Miller up to it? Like, “Sure, kid, go on TV, but do something about that disgusting pate first.”
Because as someone (everyone) pointed out above, if there’s one thing the Trumps excel at, it’s having fake-looking hair. I bet they all thought Miller looked like a million rubles.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
watching Jim Comey rant about the man he put in the Oval Office abusing that office
Gin & Tonic
Not that I’m going to look for it (and not that I even need it myself) but where does one buy spray-on hair?
Burnspbesq
As long as it doesn’t cause anyone to lose sight of the fact that he should be hauled before the ICC, I have no strong objection to mocking Miller’s hair antics.
Litlebritdifrnt
I love the way Melania has been going blonde by degrees in an effort to fool the rubes. What is creepy is that she is now actively TRYING to look like Ivanka. I had always respected her for remaining a brunette but all of a sudden has gone full step daughter. It makes my skin crawl.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: Head like a rocket, stuck his finger in a socket!
Dorothy A. Winsor
If I had Melania’s life, I’d be so bored I’d probably be doing weird things to my appearance too. She’s shown herself to be pretty awful, but I still wouldn’t want her life.
West of the Rockies
@trollhattan:
Parents just don’t understand…
oatler.
Reminds me of the SCTV “commercial” for spray-on socks (including argyll!)
C Stars
@Kent: Thank you for having that thankless conversation. Maybe something got through.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Those dead eyes of Miller’s. Does he ever emote with them?
Belafon
The more hair he gets, the more he looks like Pauly Shore.
ruemara
@SiubhanDuinne: Brilliant.
@Adam L Silverman: How you gonna do Kid dirty like that?
The Moar You Know
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: One must take life’s pleasures where you can find them. I hope Comey starts his day, every day, watching Donald Trump and the only thing he can think of is “I let myself be blackmailed into this”.
Sure would like to know what those NY FBI guys had on him. Something pretty big, no question.
Gravenstone
@SiubhanDuinne: You realize that as a blonde, she looks more like Ivanka.
/hands out a pitcher of brain bleach
ruemara
@Gin & Tonic: ask & ye shall be answered. Lo, Toppik!
@Gravenstone: They both look like nearsighted blonde weasels with a mouth full of lemon juice.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: When you get away with the brazen frauds these people pull off, I guess it could make you think you can get away with anything, including spraying fur on your head. The rest of us — those who would suffer consequences for stealing and lying all the time — are more aware of our limitations.
schrodingers_cat
Nothing remotely funny about the crew above. They are ugly inside and out. Also too, Padma Lakshmi rocks!
M. Bouffant
@Gin & Tonic: Brand name: Toppik.
Gravenstone
@Olivia:
Someone should sweep a horseshoe magnet over his head, just for shits and giggles.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@The Moar You Know: my thinking is, he was afraid of spending the rest of his life (edited: Or at least several years) answering subpoenas and paying for lawyers answering questions for that smarmy little douche Jason Chaffetz, and to no small degree he’s a prim, small-town vice-principal and he wanted to publicly scold that uppity woman he disapproved of
Gin & Tonic
Man, I’m so old I can remember when I had some money in the stock market.
Stuart Frasier
@Adam L Silverman:
The full “Kid” flat-top is making a comeback, at least in my neighborhood. I’ve seen a few of them recently.
Luthe
Now, this might be the privilege of having thick hair and no family history of baldness, but I don’t understand the obsession of balding men with pretending to have more hair than they do. Is it a masculinity thing?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Gin & Tonic:
Sure you don’t ; )
//
C Stars
@ruemara:
mic drop
John Revolta
@Litlebritdifrnt: @Gravenstone: See, this is the part I don’t understand. By all indications it seems like Mel T would be trying to get Trumpf to be LESS attracted to her. So what gives? She found out her chauffeur likes blondes?
Martin
Even with the spray on, the dude looks older than me, and I’m 20 years older than him. Dude needs to just accept that his hair has been fleeing the violence of his brain for some time now.
Betty Cracker
@The Moar You Know: You think they blackmailed Comey? Hmmm. Maybe. I assumed he just lost control of that office and, because he thinks of himself as the last honest man in DC and a morally upright leader, blundered into destroying America in an attempt to cover his own ass.
One tidbit from his interview tour after his book on leadership (hahahahaha gasp hahahaha) came out: His wife and daughters blame him for Trump. I take some satisfaction from that.
The Moar You Know
@Luthe: Oh yeah. And it’s not just guys who buy into that. Women even more so.
Shana
@chopper: There are people who can pull off blonde and people who can’t. I’m firmly in the “can’t” side here and so is Melania. She doesn’t have the coloring to make that color work.
MazeDancer
Melania knows you have to pay for good hair. She was a model. She lived in NYC most of her adult life. She knows you don’t stint on the hair. You pay huge, giant, insane bucks. And it’s worth it.
But maybe she ran out of people who would work on her hair or something.
Because there is absolutely no reason for a bad dye job. Nice’n Easy would have looked better. (Speaking from personal experience. If you can’t afford A-list hair, anymore, you’re better off doing it yourself.)
And Stephen Miller deserves every slam he gets. Evil knows no shame, but we can try.
And big props to whomever talked him into spraying that stuff on his pate. Going to say it was some kind of Hair & Makeup Union revenge.
lgerard
Miller always reminds me of the great Dudley Manlove
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Betty Cracker:
Thanksgiving Dinner must have been awkward.
Central Planning
Miller added some paint while he was on the air
ruemara
@John Revolta: I think it’s the competition factor for his attention. I don’t believe this is a healthy love relationship. I believe this is a destructive nexus of interdependent relationships jockeying for favor from the patriarch
@Betty Cracker: Ha. Good. So do I.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I was just trying to remember if he had said that or if I was wish-membering.
M. Bouffant
@Luthe: There’s a lot of not wanting to look old involved, but of course that has to do w/ masculinity as well.
The Moar You Know
@Betty Cracker: GOOD. I blame him too, in part.
@Betty Cracker: I do. I mean, he’s an obvious jerk with control issues and I’m sure the thought of President She-Harpy Reminds Me Of
Mommy With Her Shrillness made him wake up at 2AM in cold sweats, but I don’t see him doing such an attention-whore thing as he did without being seriously pushed. He’s a fucking coward to the core. Men like him hate public attention. Yet he went and did the most attention-seeking thing he could. You gotta ask why, anytime someone does something very against type; why did they do that?
trollhattan
@Martin:
My advice: go full Larry Howard.
CliosFanBoy
seriously? or is “kidney condition” the new code word for “face lift”?
MazeDancer
@Corner Stone:
That was my first reaction, too, when it first starting circulating on Twitter. Just not possible she would do something so stupid. Melania had nice hair. She’s a birther and a horrible human being, but she did have good hair, I’ll give her that.
But then I saw the video of her on Hannity. It’s real. Turn down the sound and get ready to click pause, but here’s the video. Realer than real. She starts at :24 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4quvokpBo
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@CliosFanBoy: she had an initially unexplained hospital stay a while back, and the official word after two or three days was “minor procedure related to a kidney ailment”. Since she is a birther and a current accomplice, I joined in the snark saying it was a facelift, or something lift.
and am I wishmembering again that The Beast never went to visit her in the hospital?
Steve in the ATL
@Stuart Frasier:
Flat-top? That, my friend, is a 7″ hi-top fade.
Crackers. Sheesh.
CliosFanBoy
@Gin & Tonic: next to Silly String on the “You Saw It on TV” shelf at Walmart??
CliosFanBoy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: hmmm, maybe “kidney ailment” means “recovering from the bruises from being beaten by her husband again.”
Miss Bianca
@Martin:
Do the Germans have one of those wonderful portmanteau constructions (like “schadenfreude”) for “laughing-screaming”? Cuz that’s what I’m doing right now.
JPL
Chia Miller is now available in your local drug store.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@MazeDancer:
I never knew her command of English was so bad. She’s like some stereotype of foreigners speaking broken English.
Also, did you notice Hannity’s lapel flag pin was the “Thin Blue Line” version?
C Stars
@The Moar You Know: I tend to think Comey was threatened with something. Maybe with just embarrassing rumors–because the guy is clearly vain and an egotist–or maybe something more damaging than that. Either way he made a colossal mistake and it drives me nuts that he’s now building a career around that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’ll forgive her for a lot when, in the Impeachment trial, Mueller stands up and in the great David E Kelly law-tee-vee tradition announces that his next witness is…. Mrs Donald J Trump, The Third One
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I think Stephen Miller, the anti-Semite Semite says it all with that wierdo. Dyeing his hair almost makes him human. Almost.
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: I’d take even more satisfaction from it if his wife would divorce him over it. I’d love to see it splashed in all the papers that the cause of the divorce was listed as: “Destroyed country in an attempt to save his own ass at work. Irreconcilable differences.”
tobie
@The Moar You Know:
I learn so much from this blog (not snark) about things I would never expect to learn from this blog (a little snarky)! Truth be told my first thoughts were after seeing the photo: how did she age so much in a week? and how many packs a day does she smoke and how much booze does she drink?
Gin & Tonic
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: How many languages can you speak?
--bd
@trollhattan: Larry Fine. As in “Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard”.
Moe, Curly & Shemp were Howard (Horowitz) brothers.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Corner Stone: She really does look like a character from a computer game she is so inhumanly flawless. To much plastic surgery I guess.
trollhattan
@C Stars:
Colossal something, I’m not convinced it was a mistake as opposed to a well executed ratfvck.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: so we’re back to the “she’s trying to look like Ivanka” theory?
My problem with that theory: I don’t think she’s looking to sexually excite The Beast
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Gin & Tonic:
Well, I can speak a little Spanish. But then I haven’t needed to for many years. I learned it in high school (4 years of Spanish classes), also too.
I guess I was being a little petty, honestly. I’ve also never heard her speak before.
ETA: I also despise her for her birtherism
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@MattF:
And tattooing their scalps…
John Revolta
@ruemara:
Ya think?
Okay, I looked at some more photos and that one up top is the only one that has that awful straw color. It looks to have been doctored a bit but the actual color from that interview still ain’t good. More recent pics, like yesterday, look like they may have toned it down some. Stiil, I don’t know what she’s thinking.
trollhattan
@–bd:
I treat ’em all the same, like I do with the Ramones. It’s easier.
Frankensteinbeck
@The Moar You Know:
He seems to love hogging the spotlight now, and last time I saw him in an interview he seemed confident that he was a true hero who saved the Republic from its greatest danger, suspicion the FBI helped Hillary Clinton become President. Trump is the tragic collateral damage of his desperate and successful act of noble self-sacrifice. Also, did he mention how honest and incorruptible he is?
Quaker in a Basement
@rm: Or maybe she’s trying to looke more like…Ivanka?
JPL
@John Revolta: lol I thought the entire thing was photo-shopped, but she really was a blonde for three days.
Gin & Tonic
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: So how would you sound to a native speaker if you were being interviewed on TV in Spanish?
Make fun of her for her dye job, her surgery, her birtherism, whatever, and I’m there. For having some challenges with English? That’s cheap. She already knows at least twice as many languages as the average American.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Gin & Tonic:
You’re right, it was pretty cheap. And honestly, I’d probably sound terrible if I tried to speak Spanish to native speakers.
Can I call her Trump’s Russian handler still?
John Revolta
@trollhattan: Why, you! I oughta………………….
trollhattan
@John Revolta:
Nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
As in “the thine blue police are the only think that stand in between our society and minorities enjoying a productive and happy lives in this country”?. How very white of Mr Hannity.
Elizabelle
Speaking of whack blonde dye jobs (I speak of Kellyanne Conway): WaPost’s ombudsman, Margaret Sullivan:
She’s right, and the MSM has been so goddamned slow to figure this out. Repeating falsehoods does not debunk them with everyone; too much it just reinforces them.
Reading the column now.
TS (the original)
It’s taken slightly less than 2 years but the front page I see for the WaPo today has ZERO pro trump stories – not even a “both sides” story. They still have their horror pundits who will appear later in the week – but for today nothing
Jay
@Luthe: @The Moar You Know:
Funny thing is, baldness is a combo of an inherited genetic trait, and having above the median testosterone levels.
BTW, from Digby,
“Even with yuge Trump defense budgets “the likes of which the Pentagon has never seen,” exporting death and destruction to “Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Niger, Libya, Somalia and an untold number of other global hot spots” largely goes as unnoticed at home as The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism at the New York Times.”
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/exports-up-as-missiles-rain-down-by.html?m=1
Quinerly
“I think Jennifer Coolidge wore it better.”
Elizabelle
Thank you, Margaret Sullivan. WaPost ombudsman.
Elizabelle: Pay these MSM fuckers for context, particularly truthful and accurate context. They don’t need to be timid, access-driven stenographers to liars. Fact-check the liars in real time, or don’t quote them.
Gelfling 545
@Stuart Frasier: I thought he just filled in the spaces with a Sharpie.
Elizabelle
Reading the WaPost reader comments. The top ranked ones point out that Kellyanne Conway speaks without stopping — they haven’t used the term Gish Gallop, but that’s clearly what she does. (I can’t say, cuz I won’t watch her.)
That it’s not that possible to factcheck or stop her in real time, unless you cut her mike. Because she. does. not. stop.
The Mercers getting their money’s worth out of that lying liar.
schrodingers_cat
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Adam L Silverman
@ruemara: I didn’t do it, I just shared it.
debbie
@Kay:
Good God. Even Sherrod has started combing his hair! Is that what qualifies a person to run for the office of President? //
Quinerly
DOJ is trying to drag George Washington and Mt Vernon into its defense of Trump’s emoluments case:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/doj-cites-mount-vernon-tourist-website-to-defend-trump-in-emoluments-case
schrodingers_cat
I had my first opportunity for jury duty after becoming a citizen. It turned out to be a big nothingburger. They made us wait in the jury room for 2 hours and then dismissed us all. No jury duty for the next three years! I has a disappointed.
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
Yup and yup. She demonstrates how easy it is to dominate a conversation every time she opens her yap. Deprive her of the camera and she is rendered weaponless.
debbie
@Mornington Crescent:
Except they remembered to spray the backs of their heads.
Gelfling 545
@SiubhanDuinne: She had lovely nuanced color previously. I don’t know why she’d choose this.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
The colorist should be ashamed of him/herself. He/she should have used multiple shades so the color would look more natural. This looks like a school girl who didn’t take the time to read up on the effects of peroxide on human hair.
Ian G.
I guarantee Miller believes that the only thing keeping women from banging down the door to his alpha-male master race home is his hair (or lack thereof). He’s that detached from reality.
And yes, mocking everything about Trump and his cult is fair game, especially the ludicrous hair.
tobie
@Jay: I like Digby’s commentary a lot, but this statement seems like pure what-aboutism. Yes, it’s appalling that the US has increased its drone strikes in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Yemen, that we continue to conduct an undeclared war in Niger, and that we’re wreaking havoc across the globe. It’s impossible to keep track of the disasters happening everywhere thanks to the lack of leadership from the US. But if people are focused on US media, Russia, and maybe conditions at the southern border, it’s because they’re closest to home and because there’s a feeling that the Mueller investigation coupled with a modest change in how the paper of record reports the news might just bring this toxic-waste-dump-of-an administration down.
NotMax
@Quinerly
“Did Lincoln pay for the theater tickets? Huh? How about that?”
;)
@debbie
Oh, so she’s using Dolt 45’s colorist. Special family rate, don’tcha know.
;)
p.a.
@JPL:
He did it with his contacts in the wrong eyes: he was actually aiming for the one inch directly below his nose. Godwin be damned…
cope
Wow, Betty, Padma read your tweet, how cool is that. I could almost feel sorry for Mr. Miller being mocked by Padma…almost.
I Twitter not nor do I Face the Book but I haven’t been this jealous since my daughter told me The Blogess had started following her Twitter account.
Ohio Mom
@schrodingers_cat: That was my experience with jury duty too. I think it happens a lot.
Kay
@debbie:
Leave Sherrod out of this :)
This is ABOUT the bizarre fake hair of Team Trump. It’s not both sides! Theirs is imitation hair.
Uncle Cosmo
@JPL: Toothbrush mustache to go with a Schicklgruber combover… though TBH Miller looks like a Heydrich clone.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@schrodingers_cat:
I’ve been called for jury duty twice within the last two years. Never went any further than having to call the phone line to see if I had to appear though.
Mary Ellen Sandahl
@The Moar You Know: I think if you interviewed most women, and they were honest, they would tell you they’d be pretty upset to be losing their hair.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Kay:
What about Bernie’s wild hairball of a haircut? Can we at least make fun of him? Then again, I don’t consider him on our side.
Kay
I always thought Lou Dobbs looked scary, no matter the hair do.
I don’t know why he’s famous. It’s weird, Right wing media. It’s almost random. You just jut out your jar and yell a lot and you might end up making tens of millions of dollars a year. They won the grifter lottery, but it could have been any one of thousands.
Gbbalto
@schrodingers_cat: Move to Baltimore! Becomes almost an annual event.
Gelfling 545
@Martin: “his hair has been fleeing the violence of his brain for some time now.”
Marvelous.
Gbbalto
Eta jury duty again mid January
Quinerly
Elle is all over Colorgate. Seems as of Saturday, Melania is a brunette again:
https://www-elle-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/amp25602207/melania-trump-blonde-hair-change/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elle.com%2Fculture%2Fcelebrities%2Fa25602207%2Fmelania-trump-blonde-hair-change%2F
Adam L Silverman
@The Moar You Know: It’s already been reported. Comey, in his testimony right before he was fired, indicated that the Russians had done up a disinformation memo to be used as provocation between AG Lynch and him that was in one of the Wikileaks document dumps. He knew it was faked, he could prove it was faked, he also knew the truth wouldn’t make any difference.
debbie
@Kay:
Yeah, but combing his hair, after all these years of studied tousledness???
Kay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
No. This post is limited to making fun of hair enhancements. Messy gray hair doesn’t count.
I reads this awful comment on Trump’s hair from a stylist. She said she has male clients who do the Trump, and when she wets it down it forms a single skinny rat tail that loops around the sink. Then she has to dry, tease, pouf, arrange in layers and glue down with product.
For some reason it stuck with me- her level of disgust.
debbie
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I saw a photo of Sanders yesterday where his hair was neatly combed. WHAT IS GOING ON?
Anya
Melania must be dying of envy. Michelle Obama is getting adoration everywhere she goes. Tickets to her book is events are selling out with an hour and she’s getting enthusiastic crowds everywhere. This must kill her but more than anything as a racist who cares about appearances and probably thinks whiteness = beauty, it must kill her that she never gets the same level or even close to the reaction Michelle used to get for her fashion.
Quinerly
Totally OT but if you are of a certain age and need a smile, click on the video for The Monkees in this Rolling Stone piece. Michael Nesmith singing “The Chrismas Song.” I really needed a smile. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-monkees-christmas-song-video-770272/
schrodingers_cat
Blonde seems to be the go to color for RWNJs, especially women. I wonder why.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Quinerly:
Wow. They couldn’t have used actual academic sources to cite this? I’m sure the DOJ has it’s own in-house historian. And who cares what George Washington did 220+ years ago? The US and the world was very different back then. How involved was Washington still involved in Mt Vernon while he was President, anyway?
JPL
@Anya: She respects Michelle enough to copy her speeches.
TS (the original)
@Anya: Not too sure it bothers Melania – but 100% sure it bothers her husband.
Elizabelle
@Quinerly: From your Elle magazine article (wherein, Melania dyed her hair back to brunette within three days):
Alas, the word they were going for is “photographed.”
And her’s a brunette in a shimmery long-sleeved white gown. He looks better than usual, in a tux.
Adam L Silverman
@Stuart Frasier: Not really a big thing among Jews. The most you usually see is a Jewfro.
Adam L Silverman
@John Revolta: They decanted this version a week too early. As a result the hair color didn’t have time to set.
Schlemazel
@Kent:
He obviously never heard of the MS St Louis
Adam L Silverman
@Betty Cracker: I think if you pushed him on it, he probably blames himself.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: I thought combs were capitalist, they both start with a c.
brettvk
@Ian G.: I find it hard to believe that Miller doesn’t have whatever measure of companionship he wants. He may make *my* skin crawl but the GOP habitat is seething with young people on the make, and the GOP manifestly rewards grifters no matter what their grift is. If Miller is alone it’s because he really doesn’t like his own species. I return the compliment with vigor.
Schlemazel
Yes, and it makes me again question how it is that Tucker Carlson is Stormfront’s favorite personality by a huge margin. Hannity should feel really hurt
Adam L Silverman
@CliosFanBoy: New set of bolt ons.
ruemara
@Kay: Hmmm. Maybe if I wear a dashiki with a Trump pattern on it, I can collect that sweet sweet conservative cash.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic:
So at one then.//
NotMax
@ruemara
If it’s a print of him head to toe, you’ll have to cover up the “continued on next dashiki” message.
;)
Adam L Silverman
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Those are for/from the Blue Lives Matter counter-movement, which, you’ll be shocked to know was heavily pushed on social media by the Russians.
Martin
@brettvk:
Ahem.
Not to mention getting chased out of a restaurant is a rough first date.
JoyceH
@Quaker in a Basement:
Maybe, but Ivanka is not a natural blonde either. She had brown hair as a teenager.
Personally, I’ve been having fun with my hair since it went white. Like a blank canvas! First I tried pink streaks and that was really pretty. Then I tried teal streaks and that was also really pretty. THEN I tried pink and teal streaks – and it’s AWESOME! It’s kind of weird to go to a store or a restaurant or some public place and have three or more total strangers say “LOVE your hair!”
Elizabelle
NY Times breaking news:
Heh heh. That might be the least of Moonves’s problems right now.
ETA: Maybe Mrs. Moonves, Julie Chen, will jump ship, since that sweet communal property cash is not coming their way.
NotMax
Hey, Canadian jackals, how come y’all have never mentioned the TV series Corner Gas? Found it on Amazon Prime. Pure silliness, but in a good way; a chest full o’ chuckles.
The Moar You Know
@Adam L Silverman: I get that’s an attempt at blackmail – and Trump would have fired him for it, of course – but that sort of thing tends not to force people into a course of action against their nature. Lies are poor leverage. The truth, on the other hand, is great leverage.
I can’t prove anything, obviously, and it doesn’t really matter in the long term, but I’ll die being convinced someone pushed him into doing what he did right before the election.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@debbie:
That’s apart of his image as a proletarian rabble-rouser.
JPL
@Quinerly: Thank you for the link, and it made me smile also.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: There is no way that Stephen Miller has above the median level of testosterone.
Chris Johnson
Miller, atop of head: Hue 6 Saturation 22 Brightness 36
Miller, side of head: Hue 354 Saturation 13 Brightness 30
Never mind the border. They’ve used the wrong shade of paint! (I’ve done some graphics work and the hue/saturation shift just jumped out at me)
Feathers
What’s sad is I fear that the reason for the shit dye job may be that she doesn’t have any money of her own to spend. I’m guessing First Ladies pay for their own haircuts. I could see the Donald cutting her funds off if upset with her. Hair like Ivanka’s is horrifically expensive.
My ex used to be the emergency hot water fixer for our local salon. He became friendly with everyone. The cost of the beauty walking out the door astonished him. He’d be at bars with his friends running up the price tag for them on how much the women they were drooling over paid to get that hot, i.e., $60-70 for every individual shade in their highlights. Got at least one of them to realize low maintenance women were the way to go.
As for Stephen Miller, if he’d been doing this all along, it would be one thing. But he’s been bald(ing) for years and not hiding it. Suddenly going for a hideous spray job is really bad.
Schlemazel
@The Moar You Know:
My bet is that the NY offices of the FBI are compromised. They threatened to dump some BS at the last minute if Comey doesn’t .
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
In the case of Miller, the term ought to always be mean.
;)
Miss Bianca
@Quinerly: awwww…
Quinerly
@JPL: The entire album is up on YouTube. They have even added some Davy Jones tracks from an old solo Christmas album. I especially like the Michael Nesmith tracks. He’s actually a good musician and puts on a nice solo show. Got to meet him a few years back in a small venue here in St. Louis. Glad you liked the link.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie:
John Revolta
@Adam L Silverman: My new theory, which is mine: Trumpf made her do it as a favor for Hannity.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: As well he should. But unless and until he goes public with a “mea maxima culpa”, I don’t want to see or hear anything further from the man. His sanctimonious lectures are the worst sort of hypocrisy given the damage he has done to the body politic.
JustRuss
@Luthe: In my case, not so much a masculine thing as a “I don’t want to look like I’m getting older” thing. I’ve come to terms with it, but I’m a lot older than Miller, I’m sure losing it earlier would have been harder for me.
As for Melania, my guess is she was going for the Walmart Shopper American Gal look on the advice/insistence of campaign advisers. They probably wanted America to get used to the new look before the campaign cranked into gear. Then it backfired, and she decided “Screw this.”
Quinerly
@John Revolta: works for me. ?
Schlemazel
Just read an item stating that roughly 2,000 Oklahoma farmers got Dump handouts totally $2,000,000. Now I went to public schools and it was over 40 years ago but does that mean they averaged $1,000 each? That won’t even fuel the tractor
MisterForkbeard
@Martin: Those people are not sufficiently high up in the GOP apparatus. Someone like Stephen Miller should have a lot of options amongst career GOP women that are already willing to sell their souls. That he doesn’t indicates he’s not interested or he’s just too personally repulsive, something I’m doubtful of. But then, there’s a huge difference between endorsing the jailing of young children (that you’ll never see) because they’re brown and… going on a date with Stephen Miller. I mean, you’re right there.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
I thought it was super suspicious that I started seeing Thin Blue Line American flags all over the place the last two years. The Russians amplified that sentiment a ton; “heightened the contradictions” so to speak. I’ve noticed that they don’t fly the Thin Blue-only Flags anymore. They also have half-red and half-blue, for Fire and Police. Plausible deniability?
Adam L Silverman
@The Moar You Know: When you combine that with him believing his own mythology as the last upright man, then you get what he did.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Here we come
Walking down your street
We get the funniest looks from
Everyone we meet
I loved that show BITD
Speaking of hair, I decided to just let mine go white.
C Stars
OK, I am as mad at Comey as the next BJer, but I just watched the media session after his recent testimony and it was worth the ten minutes. He’s hopping mad at the Republicans in Congress and seemed to be speaking directly to them on more than one occasion.
joel hanes
@trollhattan:
Spread out!
Quinerly
Naked mole rats have found their queen (and it is not Kellyann Conway?) https://dcist.com/story/18/12/17/after-bloodbath-the-national-zoos-naked-mole-rats-finally-choose-their-queen/
MomSense
@Feathers:
I think she is losing her hair and wears a topper which is a type of wig for women who have receding hairlines.
Ian G.
@brettvk:
I dunno. I feel like even female MAGAts get the sense that one too many drinks with him on a date and they’ll find themselves locked in his basement, about to become part of his “collection”.
Quinerly
@C Stars: agree 100%. He was on fire.
PPCLI
@Quinerly: That’s just pathetic. George Washington exported flour to England, Portugal and Jamaica. According to a tourist website.
Did Washington double the price of flour after becoming president, with all his suddenly overpriced unsold stock immediately bought out by some English speculators (not flour merchants) who had business before the US government? And did that turn a business that was losing money into one that was turning a profit? Because if those things happened, we would have something more analogous to what we are seeing with Putin’s Puppet. And yes, I’m sure if that happened, Congress might have tossed the word “emoluments” around.
ETA: Especially if Washington and his son-in-law shared very valuable secret information with the purchasers, and Washington wanted to remove sanctions on England as a result.
joel hanes
@Kay:
I don’t know why he’s famous.
He’s famous for a decade of “common sense” dog-whistled-bigotry pieces on CNNFN.
Retired white guys with investments who obsessively watched that channel saw him every day, and said to their wives “That guy makes damn good sense.”
Fair Economist
@SiubhanDuinne: Ogden Nash would be proud.
Chip Daniels
As a middle aged man with pattern baldness, the approach I recommend is to embrace it, become one with it, celebrate it. Cut it short, don’t try to hide it, let the gleaming pate be a sign of wisdom and maturity.
Even (especially) if you have neither of these.
Quinerly
@MomSense: saw the Monkees in ’67 with my distant cousins in Greensboro, NC. I was 6 and Hendrix opened for them. My first show and I still have the frayed program. Saw them again on a reunion tour the year I graduated from law school in’ 85 or ’86 with my then boyfriend. It just wasn’t the same. ?
joel hanes
@schrodingers_cat:
Blonde seems to be the go to color for RWNJs, especially women.
Only their hairdressers know for sure … so let’s ask Juanita Jean :
http://juanitajean.com/hairdresser-tip-of-the-day/
C Stars
@Chip Daniels: My dad started losing his hair in high school. There’s a picture of him at 21, holding my brother as an infant, and he’s got pretty much the same amount of hair as he does now, 45 years later: Completely clean on top, some shrubbery around the sides. And if his stories from high school and college are to be believed, the hair loss was no, ahem, romantic impediment…
schrodingers_cat
@joel hanes: Ivanka too is a bottle blonde, her dark roots show through ever so often.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: I’m not defending him, just providing the open source reporting about what happened.
zhena gogolia
@Steve in the ATL:
I’m dumb enough to have thought that tweet was an Eraserhead reference.
Quinerly
Vox is all over the whole spray on hair fad that Miller is trying to start. My favorite is the tweet: “Instead of mocking Stephen Miller’s spray-on hair, we should be working to stop his vile policies.
Whoa. Just saw the hair. We can multitask.”
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/17/18144716/stephen-miller-spray-hair-loss-toppik-glh
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Miss Bianca: Comey’s going to be an essential witness in the (I assume) eventual hearings about obstruction of justice, both in open hearings and Mueller’s report
Elizabelle
@joel hanes: Callista Gingrich’s hair is scary. Probably literally bulletproof.
It is a few decades out of date.
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
That’s happened to me every single time I’ve been called whether federal or state/local. And I’ve been called for jury duty many, many, many times. Be glad it was only 2 hours. Last time I was called to federal jury duty, I sat 8 hours a day for three days. I wanted to slit my wrists several times each day.
Quinerly
Roger Stone is selling his stones? for $8 a piece. They are replicas of the stone that took down Goliath. Get um while they are hot?. Only 18 in stock.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roger-stone-selling-roger-stones-defense-fund
zhena gogolia
@Kay:
Oh, my God, where are my Tums?
zhena gogolia
@Anya:
And Michelle is one of the most beautiful women who ever lived and all her clothes look fantastic on her.
trollhattan
@Chris Johnson:
Nice! The harsh cruelty of the eyedropper tool.
J R in WV
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve been bald since 1971, and I still don’t need spray on hair, won’t ever, either!!!!! No one does!
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
I’ve heard that described as the Texas helmet. Exported to Georgia in this case, I guess.
The before:after photos of Frau Gingrich #3.0 are scary.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
and I suspect, at least hope, that in those hearings, more than one Dem MoC is going to remind him of his role in How We Got Here
ETA: not for nothin’, but the MoC who does the best job of that is probably going to get some internet$ love from the base
Quinerly
@trollhattan: in Texas, they also say, “the bigger the hair, the closer to God.”
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle:
It looks like a yearbook photograph from Southwest High School in KCMO in 1964.
Gin & Tonic
@geg6: I’ve been called for jury duty precisely once in my life, and I’m pretty close to Medicare. It’s weird.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: OK, points taken. I will graciously allow him to give testimony that helps bring down the shit show he helped create, and *then* he has my leave to STFU forever.//
John Revolta
@Quinerly: Wow, that’s a pretty famous tour. Program oughta be worth some $$.
I’ve seen interviews with teenage girls coming out of those shows………………there were lots of wrinkly noses when they were asked about Hendrix’s show!
Gin & Tonic
@J R in WV: Well, I don’t need it because I have so much hair I’ve joked with a barber about using gas-powered implements. Most of my thinning-hair friends (which is, actually, most of my male friends) have just embraced their status. I have one who spent a lot of money on what I guess are called hair plugs, and it looked positively awful, like industrial farming. He gave up pretty soon and is now a chrome dome.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Charlie Pierce on Comey:
no link because of the Esquire paywall and I don’t want to bork my comment with a funky link
Bupalos
This right here is Cracker-worthy. I’m dyin’ here!
trollhattan
@Quinerly:
Texas rightly qualifies as one of America’s aphorism capitals.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
LOL.
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
Be glad. The least stressful jury duty I had revolved around a family losing their local farm AND the replacement horse farm they bought in TN with funds from the loss of their local farm, which were never paid to them.
Worst was a Grand Jury indicting people for child sexual abuse and child porn with his own daughter. Horrible. Willing to do it, part of our civic duty, but horrible.
different-church-lady
Without even looking I’m sure I’m not the first person on this thread to point this out: Miller enables a boss who compulsively ridicules the appearance of others. Ergo: fuck ’em.
Miss Bianca
@Quinerly:
In Chicago, we used to say, “the bigger the pants, the bigger the laughs”.
Wait, what?
Betty Cracker
@Adam L Silverman: Lots of those “blue line” flags flying in my neck of the woods. I assume the flag flyers are racist jackholes and haven’t had that initial impression contradicted upon closer acquaintance yet.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
OMG, I love and adore Corner Gas! Own all six (?) seasons — might be seven, the entire run, anyhow — on DVD* and it’s as much comfort TV as mac-and-cheese is comfort food. Just a wacky, super Canadian delight.
When I still worked for the Canadian Government, I went on a training mission to Saskatchewan, and during one of our field trip she the bus took is right through the small town that inspired Dog River.
*Yes, I still greatly prefer DVDs to other formats.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
on MSNBC, former Enquirer employee teasing that Pecker has embarrassing information on the trump and Kushner families (not surprising) and evidence of illegal activity by Jared and Ivanka. I have no doubt that if we could know all the facts, all the things that happened in shadows and were never memorialized on paper or in pixels, trump and all his Large Adult Children are felons. The question is what Mueller and Schiff and Nadler and Waters will be able to prove
geg6
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve been called in local court at least eight, maybe nine, times. Twice to federal jury duty. My typical bad luck is all I can say. Never stepped foot in a jury box, not even to be dismissed. My original career plan back in college was to go to law school. I figure this is some sort of karma coming back on me for not doing it.
Middlelee
@JoyceH:
Do you live in the Auburn, CA area? I may have seen you at BelAir today. ;-)
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t always agree with Charlie Pierce, but in this case, I soitenly do.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Does anybody else see that weird glitch with the number of comments on posts when you go to main BJ page vs the actual number of comments?
Elizabelle
@Miss Bianca: Silver lining: I hope that Comey helps the IC and the Democrats go after the FBI NYC field office with the big artillery. Something is really, really wrong there.
Burn them down. Retire or banish them. Jail them, if it can be done. If they are compromised, they need to go.
Would not be surprised at all if they are in Mueller’s crosshairs.
Yutsano
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Yep. The numbers aren’t lining up at least on desktop. Not noticing it as much on mobile.
Gin & Tonic
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Yes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
for those of you with “he’s doing great with the economy” people in your Facebook
MomSense
@Quinerly:
For me it was rushing home from school and then fiddling with the UHF and VHF dials and rabbit ears so I could watch the show.
geg6
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
That happened to me the other day. Then it stopped. No idea why.
ETA: I see Yutsano saw it, too. Hmmm, think I was on my desktop at work when it happened to me.
Patricia Kayden
Looks like there may be a second BREXIT vote after all. That may be for the best to avoid a huge mess that could be avoided if PM May cannot get a deal with the EU.
geg6
@Patricia Kayden:
That’s good news, I think.
schrodingers_cat
\@geg6: I was falling asleep. At least the room where they had all the jurors wait had a great view.
MomSense
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Woohoo, that was very satisfying.
schrodingers_cat
@J R in WV: The second case does sound awful.
Quinerly
@John Revolta: so odd that two of those Hendrix shows were in NC. I priced the program on eBay a few years back?. I actually remember the show pretty well… An exciting thing for a 6 year old. Hendrix was very confusing for a little girl who was in love with Mickey. I also remember asking over and over why there were so many musicians on stage with the Monkees.
debbie
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Always.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Been that way for something like four months now. More recent kink is AL’s morning post showing up in a side tab on a thread but not showing on the front page until 30 minutes or more later. Welcome to Entropy Juice.
Platonailedit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The sanctimonious comey is the worst comey.
Quinerly
@MomSense: I remember doing the same thing for “Dark Shadows.”
Those were the days, my friend. ?
Yutsano
@geg6: It is maddeningly inconsistent. Sometimes it’s there then poof it works right. But yeah almost always on desktop.
ETA: I’m in the mood for a Tbogg…
Tenar Arha
@JoyceH: I love mucking about w my hair. It used to be short perms in college bc that was easy to not get professionally cut for months, then I started dyeing my hair with red highlights in my 20’s. It was fun.
I say it’s so that when I did start going gray, nobody would notice when I changed things up, but it’s mostly just a way to play with styles, have fun, and give yourself a lift too.
How do you make the pink last? Bc past year or so I’ve done pink or blue highlights. (This fall I did copper red bc the pink usually washed out after two shampoos).
J R in WV
@MomSense:
Wife’s dark brunette hair went a wonderful platinum color. She got strangers (beautiful women!) in NYC nightclubs coming up telling her how wonderful her hair looked. Talk about a morale boost!
Baud
@Yutsano:
Infant circumcision is wrong.
Platonailedit
Did corbyn just shoot himself in the foot?
Go big or go home, corbyn,
Schlemazel
@J R in WV:
I have been on jury duty 3 times. sat on 3 cases total. 2 were boring & mundane. I still can’t get the last one out of my head at times. Yours sounds so much worse. I think they should offer support after cases like that
Platonailedit
@Yutsano: Email cole. In ALL CAPS. He will love that.
different-church-lady
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Yup: the trouble is not with your set.
SiubhanDuinne
@Fair Economist:
Thank you! I was deliberately and blatantly copying Ogden Nash’s poetic conceit. So glad you caught it! (I think maybe Ruemara did too.)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Baud:
Baud! What’s up!
I hope this doesn’t piss you off, but your nym always reminds me of that old TV show Maude
MomSense
@J R in WV:
Right now I have mostly black hair with white strands and one pretty big streak starting. Did you wife go through an awkward skunk hair phase? That’s my one almost worry.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
So from all the responses I’ve gotten, I take it I’m not the only one who gets that comments glitch. One more thing to fix around here.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
I fell and skinned my knee in the driveway of the house they used to film the outside shot for Dark Shadows. The people who lived there on the summer put a chain across the driveway after they left and I caught my shoelace on the chain.
TerryC
Was on a jury that convicted a young man of second degree murder of his uncle. Terrible situation. Worst of all, the murderer looked quite a bit like my son-in-law at that time.
Schlemazel
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
It always reminds me of old dialup modems
M31
Sat around for hours waiting for jury duty to start, only for everyone to be sent home — seems that the trial was a DUI and the guy swore up and down he was going to fight fight fight, and then he saw a room full of totally normal people who were going to hear the case and he pled guilty right then. LOL the judge came down to talk to us and said that was pretty common.
Platonailedit
120 mil ? jesus.
zhena gogolia
In reaction to Miller’s spray-on hair, Patton Oswalt tweeted “Banksy strikes again!”
stinger
@Corner Stone:
Yes! More and more she reminds me of Brooke Shields in The Middle.
FlyingToaster
@zhena gogolia: Stop that right now. In 1964 I was going to the Public Library at Southwest. As a wee, wee child. And the HS kids scared me even back then.
LauraH
Sat on a jury for a case of 26 counts – 26 counts!! – of sexual abuse/assault of a minor (stepdad) – one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. We sat through four days of horrible, detailed, emotional evidence and then less than 20 minutes of stepdad saying “I didn’t do it” in his defense. The only other witness for the defense lied on the stand. We went to the jury room to deliberate on a Friday afternoon – all 11 other jurors voted to acquit on ALL charges in less than 10 minutes! Their reasoning was almost more horrific than the evidence – victim was a slut, she had it coming, etc. I refused to acquit so I got the “treatment” as well, and we ended with a hung jury. The second trial’s jury turned out the same, except 11 jurors harassed the holdout to the point of a breakdown; alternate was brought in and defendant was immediately acquitted. I had been proud to serve on a jury before; now I never want to do it again.
JoyceH
@chopper: @Middlelee:
No, I live in a very red part of Virginia. And I haven’t heard a single negative comment about my hair.
JoyceH
@Tenar Arha: The pink lasts about two months. I keep my hair pretty short so every two months I get a haircut and my streaks redone.
Quinerly
@MomSense: wow. Double wow!
danielx
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Got that right. His “I am the only upstanding honest man in Washington” shtick has gotten old. Then there’s that bit about how he probably cost Hillary Clinton the election with his bullshit October surprise, for which I will never forgive him.
The Lodger
@SiubhanDuinne: … it’s a Nash ramble!
Steeplejack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Charles P. Pierce, “James Comey Has Some Public Penance to Do Before He Gets to Scolding Everyone Else.” No paywall visible here.
J R in WV
@MomSense:
No, she just got more and more silver among the dark brown. Til it was all silver shiny. Be patient. That stripe look is hot now! People pay good money for a white streak!
J R in WV
@LauraH:
Oh, no, that’s horrible. So sorry for your experience. I’m pretty sure our sexual abusers go away quickly and for a long time!! The grand jury indicted everyone pretty instantly. I didn’t vote on the pot charges, not that that made any difference, grand jury isn’t unanimous, just a large majority. The sex abuse folks were all unanimous nearly instantly.
Origuy
Speaking of Tbogg, there’s a new bassett in the Bogg house. Meet Ripley.