I mean, her lifestyle choices are her own business, except that she's a highly placed official in homeland security with, presumably a very high security clearance and she's selling services to wealthy men

So this 29 year old woman was actively seeking older men to have sex with so they would find her lavish lifestyle. Men with lots of money from, say Iran, or Russia. She could entertain them in the bedroom, in the traditional way, and then also with anecdotes about work. What could go wrong?

I feel safer knowing she's on the case, don't you? No terrorist or spy with a satchel full of cash could ever sway her, amirite?

We live behind a large elementary school playground. Most of the time it's great. But there's America's shrieking girl problem: really loud, REALLY high pitched screaming. Parents, maybe alternative forms of expression? Like loudly quoting Mary Wollstonecraft?

the parents are not alive until they conceive a baby, apparently

At last an end to the suffering of uber-wealthy passengers is at hand

Still mad that neither Obama nor Biden ever pushed it.

Typing "new, Low IQ person" with no self awareness or sense of irony or knowledge of grammar or syntax.

Trump is such a despicable shithead

Very few of his other predictions have come through, but fingers crossed!

It's an extension of David Brooks style logic: those voters are inauthentic, their votes should not count. Where are their pickup trucks, their ballcaps and beer? The country songs about pickups and beer and blue jeans?

he could die now, and maybe that would be true?

Did the Bovino's come over on the Mayflower I don't remember seeing that name

Disease is the biggest killer in every war up until WWII

Trump doesn't understand the difference between "having" and "earning."

Patel's argument seems to be basically "I told them not to do it but they did it anyway!"

Bingo

The Ivies have been the nerve center of neoliberalism and finance gangsterism. They can only manage to defend a "great books" style notion of the liberal arts.

Trump is incapable of seeing or relating the truth. He can make emphatic declarations, and like a good actor he believes them in the moment, but they shred on the wind an hour later

By thursday we'll have the usual reports of an impending cease fire, so stocks can close higher on Friday

Yeah I think what he gets from Tolkien is the creepy race stuff about the blood of the men of the West, the Numenoreans, who live longer than "lesser men." The books are loaded with that kind of talk, of course most of the bad guys are dark skinned and have cockney accents.

I think U2 might hold that record, since dusty hill died

The boomer rock soundtrack! When art is dictated by corporate acquisitions.

It's hard not to be furious at the passivity of Obama and then Biden and the party at large about the SC

The NYT gives us this masterful example of enabling fascism

A great book about not being required to conform to expectations.

Military spending goes unquestioned. Conservatives, liberal, libertarians fall silent when tax dollars go to bombing people

Leo bringing it

It only took seven years

I'm old enough that I bought his first two records in middle school/high school. Sprawling, sloppy, verbose, loose, musically varied and ambitious. Later he got into the whole working class poet thing and everything got scaled up to
epic and corny. Still: salute to Bruce for putting it on the line