Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Let me file that under fuck it.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

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This news out of Hawaii explains so much!

Hawaii’s health department has released fresh warnings about a parasitic worm that can infest human brains after officials confirmed that three more visitors to the state picked up the infection.

Not just any worm, either, but one perfectly named in the context of Republican political gamesmanship:

The parasitic worm in these cases is the rat lungworm, aka Angiostrongylus cantonensis. As its common name suggests, the wandering worm primarily takes up residence in rats’ lungs, where female worms lay their eggs. Young worms leave the nest early to find their own windy homes, though. Larvae get coughed up into rats’ throats then swallowed. The hosting rat eventually poops out the young parasites, which then get gobbled up by feces-feasting snails and slugs (intermediate hosts). When other rodents come along and eat those infected mollusks, the prepubescent parasites migrate to the rats’ brains to mature before settling into the lungs and reproducing. The cycle then starts again.

Except, when intercepted by an allegedly wise primate, the journey shifts:

Humans are an accidental host, typically infected when they inadvertently eat an infected slug or snail that has slid into their salad fixings or other produce…

In humans, young worms make their way to the brain as they would in a rat. But the rambling invaders rarely survive long enough to make it to their final destination in the lungs. Instead, they usually die somewhere in the central nervous system. In some cases, the infection is symptomless and resolves on its own. In others, the worm meanders around the brain, and its presence, movement, and death in the central nervous system all contribute to symptoms.

I wish I could here paint a precise picture of the symptoms afflicting, say, Nazi-sympathizing Fox News hosts, but I’m guessing the actual sequence would be enough to irritate many into similarly bad behavior:

Those can vary wildly but sometimes include headaches, neck stiffness, tingling or pain, low-grade fever, nausea, and vomiting. In severe cases, the infection can lead to nerve damage, paralysis, coma, and even death.

All apparatchik-rat lungworm jokes aside, this sounds truly nasty; something to avoid; and the latest reason to distrust a salad-based lifestyle.

This thread! It is open!

Image: Luther before the Diet of Worms, 1877

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188Comments

  2. 2.

    Jager

    Wait a damn minute, my grandmother told me that I’d get worms if I ate too much candy. Of course her house had bowls of candy on every table.

  3. 3.

    ThresherK

    Champions League final: After about two minutes Liverpool converted a penalty and lead 1-0.

    (This is to summon our biggest Liverpool fan.)

  5. 5.

    RepubAnon

    As I expect many will note, brain parasites aren’t a threat to most Republican voters. Same reason they don’t worry about brain-eating zombies: no brain, no threat.

  7. 7.

    Tom Levenson

    @ThresherK: Spurs fan here. Both the north London fandom of my mates in my first serious journalism job (in London in 1983) and its history as the Jewish team (long story) make me an utterly casual Tottenham fan.

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    My HS bio teacher was really into parasites and so we basically got a year’s worth of college-level parasitology. It left me very, very leery of any food that hadn’t been cooked to within an inch of its life–a simple thing at home with my Midwest German mom–and walking barefoot or anything to do with the tropics.

  12. 12.

    Tony Jay

    @ThresherK:

    I think Amir will still be busy explaining to the Singaporean constabulary that, no, he hasn’t killed anyone, that bloodcurdling scream was just him celebrating the fact his team just scored.

    This Liverpool fan, however, is still too nervous to celebrate just yet. Llllooooooonnnnnnnnggggggg way to go in this match.

    Oooh! A streaker!

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    Haha – no.

    Forty-plus years of this shit can’t be blamed on brain worms.

  14. 14.

    ThresherK

    @Tom Levenson: I’m an American soccer fan from before Pele played for the Cosmos. So, I can’t tell how, but I learned that Ajax also have a rep as the Jewish team. Never knew that about Spurs.

    (PS For England I root for a bunch of teams, which is possible there. West Ham and Dulwich Hamlet in London are two.)

  18. 18.

    Juice Box

    No, Republicans aren’t infected by parasites they picked up in Hawaii. They never go to foreign countries.

  30. 30.

    Tony Jay

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Ha! No, not this time. I’m having a weekend off from politics while the Media goes through its monthly “Labour hates teh Jooz!” narrative.

    Though if we don’t win tonight I will be venting about something or other.

  32. 32.

    mrmoshpotato

    @JPL:

    Thanks a lot for the information Tom. I blame Obama.

    What the blackness and/or Democratness could they have had a problem with.

    “Getting brain worms to own the libs!”

  34. 34.

    MattF

    OT. The NYT has yet another article on Boeing’s 737 Max disaster. It turns out the story is worse than you thought. According to the article, the MCAS system was originally designed to deal with situations that are well outside the normal operation of the aircraft– but at some point that constraint was overridden– the system was reworked and applied to situations that it wasn’t originally designed to deal with. And, apparently, the FAA was not informed of this change. Scary stuff.

  36. 36.

    Tony Jay

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yuck. It’s early in the week. I think I read the 3rd. We’ll work him over for you, trample all over that fragile pustule of an ego, let him know we know what he is and what we think of it, but no, when we’re done he goes back in your box with the rest of the complete tools.

    Can’t believe he’s mouthing off about Meghan before coming on a State visit. What a fucking knobhead.

  39. 39.

    Tony Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Do not want! We’ve got our own humiliating mistakes to correct.

    Honestly, we give you ALL our actors and you try to dump that lump on us. For shame!

  40. 40.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Tony Jay:

    We’ll work him over for you, trample all over that fragile pustule of an ego, let him know we know what he is and what we think of it

    And that’s just Her Majesty and the Royal Family.

  43. 43.

    Tony Jay

    @NotMax:

    The Irish were astute enough not to have a crap right-wing government. That generally makes it easier to do sensible things.

  45. 45.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Tony Jay: So it’s Britain that’s sending people to the US? They’re bringing plays, they’re bringing movies, they’re thespians.

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud: Piers, Baud. Piers.

    He named himself, and was too stupid to know how to spell Pierce.

  47. 47.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

    As the old saying goes, on every shoe a little shit must at times stick.

    Not sure who the shoe is in this analogy, but Piers Morgan is undoubtedly the little shit.

  48. 48.

    Another Scott

    Speaking of Brexit, Joshua Alvarez at WaMo:

    Shortly after Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation on May 24, an unnamed former British “cabinet minister” levelled with Foreign Policy’s Owen Matthews:

    “The [Conservative Party] membership are all Brexiteers. The next leader has to be a hard Brexiteer. But it’s totally obvious that nobody is going to get a different deal [from Brussels] to the one that May’s already got.” All of May’s likely successors as Conservative leader and prime minister are promising a new deal with the EU that’s “somehow keeps all the advantages of membership without the pain … That’s simply undeliverable,” the former minister said. “It’s fantasy unicorns. And when it doesn’t happen, the voters will just crucify us.”

    The European Council, which is made up of the heads of state of EU member countries, has already said there won’t be any renegotiation of the Brexit deal that May negotiated and presented to Parliament three times to no avail. The Council appears certain that the next UK prime minister will also balk at leaving the EU with no deal. May was unwilling to do it, and the Council was happy, for the most part, to provide repeated extensions to the Brexit deadline. After the most recent extension in April, which pushed the deadline to October 31, Council President Donald Tusk said the goal of the extension is to give time for the UK to “cancel Brexit altogether.”

    Tusk actually wanted to give a substantially longer extension, as did every member of the Council except one: French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron has publicly said that he fears the UK’s continued membership would harm EU institutions and legitimacy. What he doesn’t say is that an unending Brexit hurts him politically at home, where he’s struggling to contain a reconstituted far-right party led by Marine Le Pen.

    The other EU leaders are unimpressed with Macron’s position, but last weekend’s European Parliament elections justify, in part, both Macron and his counterparts. Right-wing parties across Europe gained seats, but Tusk was quick to point out that none of them ran on platform that explicitly called for leaving the EU. Instead, their rhetoric was focused on reforming the EU “from within” and transferring some power back to national governments. Tusk believes that Brexit has acted as a vaccine against the illusions of grandeur that animated other “exit” campaigns.

    Despite Tusk’s confidence, it’s not obvious if the UK will be able to self-innoculate: Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party (a scrappy reconstitution of the UK Independence Party, which led the 2016 “leave” campaign) won a whopping 29 MEP seats out of the 73 allocated to the UK, a final disaster for Theresa May and the Conservative Party, which won only 4 seats.

    Then again, there’s an interesting possibility that the influx of “reformist” Euroskeptics may change the EU (or at least appear to change the EU) in such a way that current Brexiters may be willing to temper their stance. As the nameless former cabinet official said, leaving the EU while maintaining the benefits of membership is undeliverable. The next prime minister will run on a “hard Brexit or bust” platform. The way out of this predicament—and out of actually having to pull the trigger on a hard Brexit—may actually be through a European Parliament dominated by reactionaries who want to practicably achieve what Brexiters really want. It might take a boorish PM (hint, his name rhymes with Joris Bohnson) who has enough Brexiter street cred to convince them that the EU is changing into something worth being a part of.

    A little too eleven-dimensional-chessy for me, but who knows….

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  49. 49.

    J R in WV

    @Baud:

    Andy Sullivan, also… I’ll think of some more, seems like all the really right wing nut jobs from GB wind up over here, more money maybe?

    Diet of Worms, so good!!! Was that the actual electoral college that elected Trump? Surely it is so.

  52. 52.

    Tony Jay

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Deservedly. Trying to play dominance games with the Windsors? On their turf? I expect words to be said by certain members of the Royals when behind closed doors and high walls.

    If American Tangster looks like he’s trying to shit out a pineapple at any point, that’ll be why.

  53. 53.

    Felanius Kootea

    @Tony Jay: Does the royal family ever refuse to meet someone because of vile comments they’ve made about royals? I seem to recall that he once said something disgusting about Princess Diana, prior to his last visit to the UK.

  54. 54.

    Barbara

    @Another Scott: They have just now figured out that their vision of Brexit was a magic fairy unicorn? On that basis alone they shouldn’t get to decide anything more consequential than what to watch on tv. Even that should be subject to approval by other family members.

  56. 56.

    noncarborundum

    @Omnes Omnibus: Re: Diet of Worms:

    Edible
    adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
    – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

  57. 57.

    ThresherK

    @Tony Jay: Did you see the thing about naming the new royal baby? The couple wanted to choose a name which would bring Americans and Britons together, and some wag tweeted “I hereby christen you Fuck Off Piers Morgan“.

    (I may be echoing that from this very blog.)

  59. 59.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud: What about that ‘c?’

    And what weird British-version of American English have I been misspelling all these years?

  62. 62.

    MomSense

    If you like the premise of politicians on brain worms, you will enjoy the Amazon show Brain Dead. Tony Shaloub is perfect in the role of powerful Congress critter . It was funnier when I thought Trump would never be president, but still very funny in this nightmare timeline.

  65. 65.

    Ruckus

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    I knew there was something that I’d had done, more than once, that I didn’t like in the least, that was still far preferable to drumpf. A root canal. Yep far more preferable than drumpf. Hurts for maybe an hour and then just fine. drumpf hurts any time you even think about him, see a picture or especially hear that shitty tone. And isn’t good for you in any way. A human being with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. And even ни один

  66. 66.

    trollhattan

    @ThresherK:
    I presume we’re not talking about a hoops team from San Antonio?

    If those Tottenham fellows, did y’all know they’re hosting our WNT while they prep for World Cup?

    The facility is, like, a thousand-percent nicer than anything in the States.

  68. 68.

    Suzanne

    @Another Scott: Fuck it. If they want out, they should get out and stop extending the deal. I am sick AF of these idiots who think that they can all of the benefits of something without any of the responsibilities. Like dickheads in our own country who cheer on Chinese tariffs but who buy everything at fucken Walmart. I’m sympathetic to Macron here: let them experience the consequences of their choice and stop fucking around, or stay in.

  69. 69.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tony Jay:

    I expect words to be said by certain members of the Royals when behind closed doors and high walls.

    Please let it be Phillip. Although having a woman (and an old one at that) do it has some serious entertainment value.

  71. 71.

    Tony Jay

    @Felanius Kootea:

    It’s a State Visit, so I think they’ve done all they can by refusing to let the Pustule and his spawn sleep over in any Palaces, unlike the Obamas, which will really grind his spiteful gears. If we had a proper Government something might be done, but we don’t, so anything properly vicious will be said behind closed doors by people who don’t give a shit who Donnie Dollhands thinks he is.

  72. 72.

    Brachiator

    @Another Scott:

    The Council appears certain that the next UK prime minister will also balk at leaving the EU with no deal.

    This is insanity. Technically, the only options on the table are May’s deal, no deal and Remain. Conservatives and the British media pretend that a new Prime Minister will be able to force the EU to accept more favorable terms. Meanwhile, the idiot Farage is openly calling for BREXIT under WTO rules.

    A good chunk of the public refuse to consider what any of this might mean, and BREXIT supporters simply assume that leaving the EU will make Britain great again. As always, Remain supporters have effectively been abandoned.

  73. 73.

    ThresherK

    @trollhattan: Wow, I did not know. Of course Spurs’ facility is better than in the US.

    I don’t want to think how far down the Footbal League that comparison holds.

  75. 75.

    Ruckus

    @J R in WV:
    A lot more bodies in the US than Britain so that’s as good a reason for anyone who is trying to sell Shit and call it Shinola.

  77. 77.

    MomSense

    @Tony Jay:

    With what he said about Diana, Wills and Harry would be justified in a well placed punch but how awesome would it be if the queen did it with her ?.

  80. 80.

    Suzanne

    @Barbara:

    They have just now figured out that their vision of Brexit was a magic fairy unicorn?

    Their version of Brexit is like me voting for a mansion and a new Mercedes and sipping piña coladas while I watch the hot shirtless pool boy.

    I mean, it DOES sound great.

  82. 82.

    debbie

    @Tony Jay:

    Have they forgiven Trump for rudely walking ahead of the Queen while “reviewing” the troops? Meghan can handle her own, but that treatment of the Queen was appalling (and I’m no monarchist).

  85. 85.

    Ruckus

    @zhena gogolia:
    That’s why grandma put it out there. It looks good but no one will disturb the display by eating any of it. Same thing with fruit cake. The gift that you can continue to hand off. It never spoils because there is no redeeming food value in it, and no one will even attempt it, unless stone drunk.

  88. 88.

    Ohio Mom

    I got through the entire thread without any photos of genitals popping up. Thank you to whoever made this possible!

  89. 89.

    Suzanne

    @Baud: I will wholeheartedly support Baud!2020 if it means I get to become a lady of leisure.

    In all seriousness, I am totally okay with abandoning MAGAts and Brexit idiots to the consequences of their idiocy.

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    Tom, a question.
    There was reason in the republican party?
    Not by any definition I’ve ever heard of the word reason.

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud: Wilmer’s more likely to steal it – sounds great with no details on how to achieve any of it.

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suzanne:

    In all seriousness, I am totally okay with abandoning MAGAts and Brexit idiots to the consequences of their idiocy.

    Most of us are, but the non-assholes are still getting the shaft and they don’t deserve it. I can guess your next comment, but the majority of London, for example, can’t just pick up and move.

  98. 98.

    Ruckus

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    You like it? What is wrong with you? Were you dropped on your head as a child? Daily?
    And here I thought we were getting along so good, what with the not thanking me for my service.
    You are dead to me.

    /

  101. 101.

    Ruckus

    @Baud:
    I understand.
    I’m not sure I like my role in this idiotic play that conservatives are putting on for some asinine reason. I’ll do it, because it’s my role. But I won’t like it.

  105. 105.

    Another Scott

    TheHill:

    Addressing the California Democratic Party’s annual convention in her home district, Pelosi cited former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
    election.

    “In his report, special counsel Mueller warned us in the starkest terms that there was an attack on our election and an attack on our democracy,” Pelosi said. “Why won’t the president defend us from this attack?”

    “What is the president covering up?” she asked. “We must investigate the president’s welcoming of the assault on our democracy.

    A single protester shouting “Impeach!” soon became a few, then a few dozen and then perhaps a hundred as Pelosi seemed to hint at a future inquiry.

    “This isn’t about politics, it isn’t about partisanship, Democrats versus Republicans, no. It’s about patriotism, it’s about the sanctity of the constitution and it’s about the future of our nation. We will go where the facts lead us. We will insist on the truth. We will build an ironclad case to act,” Pelosi said.

    “President Trump will be held accountable for his actions. In the Congress, in the courts, and in
    the court of public opinion, we will defend our democracy,” she added.

    Pelosi and House Democratic leadership have played down talk of impeachment, even as a growing portion of the House Democratic Caucus calls for an inquiry. Pelosi told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday that the party had to be prepared to build a case.

    “We have a defiance of the Constitution of the United States, and so when we go down this path, we have to be ready, and it has to be clear to the American people, and we have to hope that it’ll be clear to the Republicans in the United States Senate,” she said Thursday, comments she echoed Saturday.

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who would chair impeachment hearings, said Friday he was conscious of the need to build public support for impeachment.

    “Impeachment is a political act, and you cannot impeach a president if the American people will not support it,” Nadler told WNYC. “The American people right now do not support it because they do not know the story. They don’t know the facts. We have to get the facts out. We have to hold a series of hearings, we have to hold the investigations.”

    Fifty House Democrats have called for opening an impeachment inquiry. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is the only Republican who has called for impeachment.

    Good, good. Keep moving the millstones…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  107. 107.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax:

    Ah, grandma candy. There to be looked at and dusted off once in a while.

    Wife collected some hand-blown glass candies for her g-grandmother’s candy dish, with a close fitting lid on, so no dusting off the candy, just every few years a wipe of the glass fixture itself. Amazing job making the colored peppermints, with green, white and red layers. Glass work done by a master back in the day when glass work was a proud art.

  111. 111.

    Brachiator

    @Another Scott:

    “Impeachment is a political act, and you cannot impeach a president if the American people will not support it,” Nadler told WNYC.

    Bullshit. The American people didn’t support the impeachment of President Clinton.

  112. 112.

    zhena gogolia

    @Brachiator:

    I don’t think he’s saying it’s physically impossible. It’s like, “You can’t just stop calling a woman you’ve been on three dates with!” Of course you can, but it isn’t right.

  115. 115.

    sm*t cl*de

    Tom missed the part where Angiostrongylus cantonensis cases are increasingly common in Florida.

  116. 116.

    Ruckus

    @Brachiator:
    The attempt didn’t reach a satisfactory ending for those bringing the impeachment process did it? OK if you count 18 yrs later when they had to use a foreign power to steal a presidential election.

  118. 118.

    Baud

    @Ruckus:

    I don’t know why people keep making that comparison. We don’t have the Republican Party’s strength — solidarity in hatred.

  120. 120.

    Tony Jay

    Sorry everyone.

    LIVERPOOL FC – CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!!!

    Fuck Trump. Fuck Brexit. I’m going to get so happily drunk.

    6 and the Best!!!

  123. 123.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Another Scott: @Brachiator:

    “This isn’t about politics, it isn’t about partisanship, Democrats versus Republicans, no. It’s about patriotism, it’s about the sanctity of the constitution and it’s about the future of our nation.

    I understand needing to get MoCs onboard, but Pelosi realizes only one major party in this country still believes in the Constitution, right?

  127. 127.

    Baud

    @Ruckus:

    Ha, I was like, “Why would Ruckus’s mom keep changing her phone number?”

    ETA: Fixed. Got my jackels confused.

  128. 128.

    Ealbert

    Since this an open thread, just some random thoughts:
    What will Joe Biden day when he is asked about the new anti-abortion bills that have recently been signed into law. Historically he hasn’t been very pro-choice.
    When talking about those bills I think that when people are talking about incest they need to include the phrase “10 to 14 year old girls being raped by their relatives” too often when people talk about incest they sound like they are talking about women in their 20s.
    If the Supreme Court does outlaw abortion — I believe I read that somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of the populations live within 100 miles of the coast. And once you get 2 miles off the coast you are in international waters and I think it might be easier for women in those states to take a shortlist excursion out to a shop offering abortion services than traveling to another state.
    And finally, how many strong retired leftists would it take to retire to states like Wyoming (that would only have to live there 6months and a day and I hear the scenery is beautiful) in order to shift it from red to blue?
    As I said, just a few random thoughts.

  130. 130.

    Ruckus

    @debbie:
    Well it isn’t senility. And he hasn’t always been going down the dementia road.
    I doubt I’d lose a bet that he’s been this way since he stopped wearing diapers. That many decades.

  131. 131.

    TomatoQueen

    Well done Liverpool (almost the worst Chumps League match ever, but the fans make up for a lot)

  138. 138.

    debbie

    @Ruckus:

    He’s always been a total pig. I remember that interview with Howard Stern. Even he was surprised. It was the same when Letterman interviewed him.

  139. 139.

    SFAW

    @mrmoshpotato:
    I don’t know if NotMax’s episode number is correct — although I assume it is — but it’s one where Laurence Harvey lusts after his boss’s wife (Joanna Pettet), and so arranges to have one of the natives drop an earwig in the boss’s ear, where it presumably will … well, anyway, the earwig gets dropped into Harvey’s ear by mistake. Hilarity ensues when, after miraculously surviving, the doctor catches the earwig, and delivers the quoted line. Even more hilarity (presumably) ensues.

    It was an OK episode, and it was easy to see why he lusted after Joanna Pettet.

    But I am still partial to “The Messiah on Mott Street.” [Season 2, Ep 13]

  140. 140.

    Ruckus

    @Baud:
    It was actually funny both ways.
    And yes mom would change her number because she couldn’t remember the old one.

  142. 142.

    NotMax

    @Ruckus

    True story. Acquaintance of an acquaintance moved into new digs and when asked for her new phone number would respond, “Nothing.”

    It was (local exchange)-0000.

  143. 143.

    zhena gogolia

    @SFAW:

    Wow, they had great casts. I could only remember the one with Joan Crawford. In that earwig episode, the husband is played by Tom Helmore, who’s the guy in Vertigo who draws James Stewart into his plot.

  145. 145.

    lamh36

    Speaking of UK…just so happen to be watching The Wold Is Not Enough.

    Much as I love the physiciality of Daniel Craig’s Bond, I do miss the the suaveness of Pierce Brosnan’s Bond. Hopefully they find a new Bond who’s has both Craig’s physicality and Brosnan’s suaveness. I really think that combo is why Sean Connery is still considered the best Bond in many circles.

  147. 147.

    SFAW

    @zhena gogolia:
    I remembered a few of the ep/stories. Some were genuinely creepy (at least to me they were).

    Edward G Robinson and Yaphet Kotto (long before Homicide, Alien, Midnight Run) in the same story? What could be bad about that?

  148. 148.

    lamh36

    If you get a chance and you’ve got a Netflix account, check out Ava Duvernay’s 4 part limited series on the Central Park 5.

    @ava
    This four-part film is for Korey, Antron, Kevin, Raymond and Yusef. And all the boys and girls across our country, who are guilty to society before they are ever innocent. Thanks to all who’ve tweeted and shared. It shows that you see them. #WhenTheySeeUs
    https://twitter.com/ava/status/1134821100204912641

    When They See Us began streaming on Netflix last night.

  150. 150.

    Steve in the ATL

    @SFAW:

    genuinely creepy

    Why are you saying bad things about Omnes instead of thanking him for his service?

  151. 151.

    Brachiator

    @lamh36:

    If you get a chance and you’ve got a Netflix account, check out Ava Duvernay’s 4 part limited series on the Central Park 5.

    Don’t have Netflix, but will try to check this out.

  153. 153.

    SFAW

    @Steve in the PRU:

    Why are you saying bad things about Omnes instead of thanking him for his service?

    A) Projecting again?
    B) When I want to summon you, I’ll mispell something, or use bad grammer, OK?

    Hey, kid, get offa my airport!

  154. 154.

    Amir Khalid

    @Tony Jay:

    I am catching up with the thread after being otherwise occupied. No, I am not Singaporean. Ich bin ein stolzer Malaysianer.

  156. 156.

    SFAW

    @NotMax:

    Can always sign up for 30 day free trial.

    Can we get one of those for charges of treason against the Traitor-in-Chief?

  160. 160.

    geg6

    Anyone been watching “Dead to Me” on Netflix? Started watching it today with a friend and my sister. Great show. Highly recommend.

    Getting ready to grill some massive, Fred Flintstone t-bones, garlic baby Yukons and some gorgeous asparagus. Got bottle of Dreaming Tree Pinot noir to go with on major sale. I’m not a fan of Dave Matthews’ music but his red wines are fantastic. The Cabernet Sauvignon is also just delicious.

  165. 165.

    SFAW

    @Steve in the ATL:

    hey, it’s my day off!

    Sorry, but pedants DO NOT get a day off.

    Slacker.

    ETA: And, no, a variation of Cleese’s “I could be arguing in my spare time” comment is not acceptable.

  166. 166.

    Steve in the ATL

    @SFAW: some days I let my hair down (not literally) and relax, sit on the divan watching a plebeian sport like football, wearing a two-button suit instead of a three-button, have a couple of bottles of wine and maybe split an infinitive, or if I’m feeling super crazy use the objective case before a gerund. Well, if my wife’s not around….

  167. 167.

    SFAW

    @Steve in the ATL:

    some days I let my hair down (not literally) and relax, sit on the divan watching a plebeian sport like football, wearing a two-button suit instead of a three-button, have a couple of bottles of wine and maybe split an infinitive, or if I’m feeling super crazy use the objective case before a gerund. Well, if my wife’s not around….

    As Bowie intoned “Rebel, rebel ..”

    OK, I’ll let you slide. Just this once.

  170. 170.

    Amir Khalid

    @ThresherK:
    Interestingly, Bayern Munich have a history of Jewish support too, and they maintained it even in the dark days of the Third Reich.

  176. 176.

    Tony Jay

    @lamh36:

    I would be entirely unsurprised if Harry insisted on spending some time with Mister Trump. Can’t enjoy saying what you really think about someone unless you can look into their squinty little panda eyes while doing it.

  177. 177.

    lamh36

    @Tony Jay: Sure, but Trump can’t be trusted not to create an incident. If Harry does decide to break protocol and tell Chump to FUQ OFF…you can bet Chump will be too stupid enough to keep it to himself

  178. 178.

    Tony Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    I know, I know. Can only apologise, brain wasn’t working as it should.

    However, we won. Allez Allez Allez, next year we want the Premier League too.

  179. 179.

    Ruckus

    @lamh36:
    And Harrry’s position in the eyes of his country will ratchet up about 50%
    It’s a win – win.

  180. 180.

    debbie

    @Ruckus:

    I follow the Royal Family on FB (for the hats, of course!), and the Trumpies always show themselves and make racist comments whenever Meghan is in a photo. I’d like Harry to visualize them standing behind Trump when he has his few words with him.

  181. 181.

    Tony Jay

    @lamh36:

    Let him. There’s not a spin in the world that would have the Glazed Turd coming out of that contest looking the winner. Being looked down on by people he desperately wants approbation from really wobbles his wattle, and if he whines about it he just looks weak, which also drives him closer to stroking out.

    What’s not to love?

  182. 182.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Tony Jay:

    Being looked down on by people he desperately wants approbation from really wobbles his wattle

    And these are people way, way, way above the social status of NFL team owners. (Dump wanted to buy the Buffalo Bills back in 2014.)

  184. 184.

    MomSense

    @debbie:

    Diana. When she was alive he was trying to woo her – sending gifts and flowers. Diana thought it was creepy. He said quite a few things about her after she died, mostly on the Howard Stern show. One time he said he could have nailed her but he would have made her take an AIDS test first.

  186. 186.

    Amir Khalid

    @mrmoshpotato:
    It must really stick in Trump’s craw that the royal family loves the Obamas, whom he sees as inferior. Trump will never reall understand why: the Obamas are lovable, he is not.

  187. 187.

    Amir Khalid

    @mrmoshpotato:
    Piers Morgan was among the judges at Susan Boyle’s BGT audition. He managed to look like a preening git while praising her performance. He has no skill at hiding his true nature.

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