When You Call Matt Lauer a Pig, Smile

NBC News just fired their biggest star Matt Lauer, from Variety:

The employee met with human resources at NBC on Monday night. In a statement, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack called this the first complaint about his behavior in

Cokie Roberts takes aim at John Conyers(D, M-13), shoot off her own toe and knee caps the entire media:

Don’t get in the elevator with him, you know, and the whole every female in the press corps knew

A blogger and conservative activist, James O’Keefe tried to run a sting on the self-proclaimed Paper of Record, the venerable Washington Post.  O’Keefe got caught, from WaPo:

The woman who approached Post reporters, Jaime T. Phillips, did not respond

To survive in free market enterprise, each employee must be able to demonstrate his contribution to the company’s bottom line.   In non-profits enterprises such as charities, government or ESPN not so much.  So when  PDT put a free enterprise shark,

From Joy-Ann Reid, Daily Beast:

Well if we are getting about the business of re-examining the past indecency of powerful men, we’d be remiss not to include the moment in 1991 when a woman was not believed and her

Mrs. B.J. Clinton as attributed by April Ryan, via Gateway Pundit:

“Look I worry about everything from his[President Donald Trump] past because it tells you how he behaves in the present and the future.”

So few words.  so much

The Snark of the Day(year?), to paraphrase, snark is something best delivered cold (and calm).  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, video:

Well done my lady.

I note with interest the current Feeding Frenzy on Al Franken. Bruce McQuain correctly observes:

The question, of course, is will Democrats now apply the Roy Moore standard or the Bill Clinton standard to Franken?

The fact that Franken

From  the Men, Women, Different department, from Claudia Goldin: How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay (Hint: It Isn’t Simple), NY Slimes, via Bradford-Delong:

…Ms. King fought hard for equal rights and, on the tennis

According to the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel, Clinton’s role in the Fusion GPS dossier “was one of the dirtiest political tricks in U.S. history.” The Clinton camp was not only involved with the dossier’s procurement, but Comey’s FBI had

Ta-Nehisi Coates puts the S into Stupid,  Coates must have watched too much Dallas.   He seems to think J.R. Ewing represents the typical white man, via Bradford-Delong:

“When you’re white in this country, you’re taught that everything belongs to

The consequences of incompetence:

But as was revealed Sunday, in what is becoming a common theme in these mass shootings, no amount of background checking would have stopped the shooter in Sutherland Springs, Texas from purchasing his firearms, because

So the Democrats are proclaiming this huge victory… Mostly on the strength of having won the Democrat strongholds of New Jersey and Virgina. They’re currently trying to make the whole thing a referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump.

But

Following up on Eric.  What do heroes and fools have in common. When dire circumstances occur, both the hero and the fool rush.   First the hero, via Last Tradition:

NY Post reports a concerned neighbor who heard the

Attention Wil Wheaton

There’s only one way to address gun violence. Shoot back.

There are several ways to address scumbags such as yourself. And I expect you’re seeing the majority of them right now.

Sit down shut up and maybe