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We featured the Norwegian FIFA team and fans celebrating latest win with epic VIking row, and now they are joined by the country’s Parliament. Next game: Saturday vs. England .
Platner playing games and waiting until the Monday deadline to file the paperwork to withdraw is totally unacceptable. No reason he couldn’t file it today or tomorrow. He has shown in every conceivable way what a piece of garbage he is. Can’t even get o;ut with any decency.
Lucian Truscott IV:
It’s not just about Graham Platner or even Donald Trump. It’s about the millions and millions of men who are just like them. I have personally known far too many of them. They are men who for some reason I have never completely understood believe that they can do anything they want with a woman simply because she is a woman….
The Graham Platners and Donald Trumps of the world are everywhere. I am not doing anything more than stating the obvious to say that there are far too many of them, certainly far more than we talk about publicly. In the world as it exists in the United States, it takes a man running for office, or perhaps becoming famous as an actor or musician or sports figure, for the world to find out what is in his past….
Some men pass along to boys an inherent disrespect of women as things rather than human beings. Something similar was probably experienced by Donald Trump and Graham Platner. You are not born believing the way they do. Trump is a pig. Platner is a pig. Too many men are pigs.
Music Picks:
More from the listening party for new Stones album, out today: “You Can’t Always Get What Ya Want”
and “Dead Flowers”
And from the new album, a surprising Amy Winehouse cover:
And a Chuck Berry cover:
And an always welcome Keith lead vocal making us happy:
From Tunes to Toons
Ann Telnaes on Trump not getting the Iran war off his back
Luckovich:
Takeoff on now famous photo by MJ Hiblen:
KAL:
Molina:
Bramhall:
Wuerker:
Luckovich again:
Don’t count him out:
Photo Finish
Venetian market, closing for afternoon:
The toon by MJ Hiblen is chilling but oh so true!!!!
A new album at 82, they never quit.