Forgive me for being slow on this concept, being Jewish and all, but I thought one of the top ten points of this story is that Joseph didn’t fuck Mary? Alabama state official defends Roy Moore, citing Joseph and Mary: ‘They became parents of Jesus’

Harvey Weinstein is an even bigger dick than you realize:

“Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her. One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press. In other cases, journalists directed by Weinstein or the private investigators interviewed women and reported back the details.” In a(nother) great piece of journalism, Ronan Farrow explains how Harvey Weinstein hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.”

http://ift.tt/2zmC9BX Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies

Holy crap. 99.9% of you won’t care about this, but for the rest, this is huge. (And might eventually affect Marvel movies and TV storylines.) Matthew Han Richard Rhiew Trent Lansing Brian Michael Bendis Leaves Marvel, Signs Exclusive Deal With DC Comics

If I had the money and were unconcerned about legal fees, I would immediately start selling these for $1.99, and parodies for $3.99, then argue in court that Trump’s usage invalidates the trademark. Citizens for Ethics on Twitter

Suddenly realizing that 90% of these guys would survive the hit to their reputation if they announced *first*, “yes, I’ve done some of this, I’m apologizing, and I should have known better, sooner.” Not what you do with a history of criminal activity or legal exposure, but certainly for the “middle ground” of things men could get away with once. I’m sure they’ve completely forgotten *whom* they did this to, but *that* they did it, they know.

Why am I the first person to think of this? I don’t think I have anything that needs confession, but if I did, I would. George Takei

I was born in the same way that swimming in a pool full of plugged in the same way that swimming in a pool full of plugged in the same way that swimming in a… [ad infinitum, apparently] NBA Kurt Vonnegut on Twitter

?I remember that wise graduation advice at Franklin Field 1990: “always check your bit.ly links before you post them.”? Penn Alumni on Twitter

Even if you’ve never heard of PCalc, you gotta love the guy who writes it. (42 has been the icon forever as an homage to Douglas Adams.) James Thomson on Twitter

This headline made me laugh out loud. I thought Clovis represented the “incompetent, ideological, wholly unsuitable” wing of the Trump administration. I wasn’t expecting “corrupt, treasonous, and criminal” to bring him down. Sam Clovis withdraws his nomination for USDA’s top scientist post after being linked to Russia probe

“While it’s true that fewer Americans self-identify as liberal than as moderate or conservative, this tells us almost nothing about voters’ policy views. “Moderates” do not actually display a preference for “centrist” positions, but merely for ideologically inconsistent ones. In fact, the Stanford political scientist David Broockman has shown that moderates are just as likely to subscribe to “extreme” policy positions as other voters are: In the United States, there are self-identified “moderates” who support a $1 million maximum income, prohibiting gays and lesbians from teaching public school and the mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants.

Meanwhile, the number of genuine “liberals” and “conservatives” is far smaller than meets the eye. Most voters who identify with those terms are partisans first, and ideologues second. Or as Mr. Kinder and Mr. Kalmoe conclude an analysis of four decades of voter survey data, “ideological identification seems more a reflection of political decisions than a cause.” In other words: The average conservative Republican isn’t a Republican because she’s a conservative — she self-identifies as a conservative because she’s a Republican.” Opinion | America Is Not a ‘Center-Right Nation’

“The other problem is that the term “moderate” makes it sound like there’s one kind of moderate — which is where the idea emerges that there’s some silent moderate majority out there waiting for their chance to take back politics. But someone who believes in punitively taxing the rich and criminalizing homosexuality is not going to form a coalition with someone who believes in low taxes and gay marriage, even though both of these voters would look moderate on a survey.

The deeper point here is that the idea of the moderate middle is bullshit: it’s a rhetorical device meant to marginalize some policy positions at the expense of others. There’s no actual way to measure it, or consistent definition animating it, and it doesn’t spontaneously emerge in any of the data.” No one’s less moderate than moderates