DC Tom

Traditionally, "lynching" didn't even require killing. It was just extra-judicial punishment. The narrower definition of "hanging" is pretty recent - 40s or 50s, I think.

You're an idiot.

I've seen a lot of "Science is bad when it's only practiced by white males" stories the past week. I don't know, though...judging by human progress, white males seem to have had a good handle on science so far.

I am still Master of the Lightfoot Couplet.

No, the real crisis is undocumented avocados crossing the boarder. Ever since Congress weakened the laws against avocado trafficking, and Obama issued the Deferred Action for Cultivated Avocados act, we just can't stop the damned things. Thanks, Obama!

I honestly don't know. At a guess, it's because he was dead-set against consolidating the BI process from the disparate departments under OPM. Which made sense - used to be departments had their own clearances, and they didn't map. Bush standardized them on DoD definitions across the government, then moved the background investigation processes to OPM. But it was hugely unpopular with the departments themselves (because who wants to give up power and appropriations), and with some in Congress, of which I think Cummings may have been one. But while that's an educated guess...it's still a guess.

I've had some interaction with Cummings, and know his prejudices. He hates Trump, obviously. But he also hates OPM (a real, deep-seated hate), and those there responsible for the BI processes. With all three, he's like a kid in a candy store.

Doesn't look like it. That's not the border.

Cummings knows this ***** pretty well. Which means he's intentionally lying, playing politics.

She's got sort-of a low-rent Tia Carrere thing going on.

No, it's completely correct. You're creating a scandal where there isn't one. Have another toke.

The LA Times is wrong.

And they publish her home address. Smart.

Travel to Estonia? That's already more Russian collusion than Trump's campaign had.

Razor wire and bear traps. And warning signs that say "Caution: bear traps! No trespassing!"

Carlin would be a racist, misogynistic Nazi homophobe today. And I'm surprised none of those words are filtered.

Maybe he enjoys his job, you Canucklehead.

Schicklgruber! Thread's Godwined.

https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration?zd=2&zi=hbx4bszi

No, it means it's illegal to not clean up after your dinosaur. Big-ass pooper-scooper, though...

(*^*&%^$^#simulates verbal apocalypse.

The similarities are not material, though. Because one is a crime, and the other isn't.

Side note, I like this line from Favreau: "the landscape of the superhero is very picked over." That aged well.

What will her slogan be this year? "Oh no, not again?" Or maybe just "Four More Years?"

Again, as Secretary of State she had pretty broad authority to declassify things, so if she said "not in this case," it's hard to argue it's a crime. But hiding federal records from Congress still is. And as she was sharing federal records internally within the Clinton Foundation...well, "pay to play" with an organization that has the minutes of internal State Department deliberations? No, not shady at all...