One can walk away from even the most offensive speech.
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Nuance is crucial even when dealing with the most offensive words.
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Jones' choice of hosiery proved most offensive, according to the editor.
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It is truly impossible to tell which sentence rings most offensive.
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Those are probably the most offensive, if the metric is offensiveness.
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He highlighted Trump's most offensive remarks about minorities and women -- Clinton's constituency.
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The dab is now the singularly most offensive gesture I've ever seen.
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A lot of the most offensive clips is him volunteering this information.
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"The hashtags were what people found the most offensive," Dr. Salgado said.
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But the most offensive thing about these laptops is how gaudy they are.
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Remember how Taurasi is about to pass Catchings for most offensive win shares?
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Perhaps that was the most offensive one because they basically made it up.
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He started to get the biggest cheers for saying the most offensive things.
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"It was the most offensive scene I've ever been a part of," Boyne said.
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If we're ranking the pitfalls of summer, humidity is hands down the most offensive.
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That would be the one threatening North Korea's Kim Jung Un. His most offensive tweet?
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The getup has been deemed the year's most offensive costume by the The Washington Post.
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"This is one of the most offensive statements yet from this governor," Mr. Dutson said.
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It is the president's personal style that is most offensive to the haters out there.
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In 2015 it finally implemented quarantines and shut down some of the most offensive Subreddits.
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Media outlets rank his "most offensive" tweets, and comedians spend hours getting laughs from them.
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Why people hate it So what, then, is the most offensive part of this ad?
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Senator Collins and others were hopeful that Trump would somehow shed his most offensive behavior.
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Jesse hit the streets to find out what people are thinking about the most offensive ones.
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The company starting cleaning up Tay's timeline this morning, deleting many of its most offensive remarks.
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Some of the potentially most offensive scenes turn up, uncensored, in the mild-mannered HBO film.
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But Gretzky got there between 0003 and 2000, when the league was its most offensive-oriented.
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And for some Boca Raton residents, the vandalism is the most offensive outcome in this fight.
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She called black people "plain and simple useless" before unleashing the most offensive racial slur around.
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It's hard to know what's most offensive in President Donald Trump's outbursts about Jews this week.
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But we think the most offensive phone element has been hiding in plain sight: camera bumps.
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"What's most offensive is that they're trying to force our client to settle," Mr. Wigdor said.
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Then that got cancelled, and now he's back to making the most offensive shit you can imagine.
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Samantha calls Ivanka's post the second most offensive tweet this week -- Roseanne takes that cake, of course.
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"Well, this is most offensive," Price told conservative radio host Mike Gallagher, as first reported by CNN.
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Sanders then targeted Warren, saying that "the most offensive thing" was Warren claiming to be Native American.
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Some of the most offensive posts were directed at Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York.
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Tying the two outbursts together is Trump's underlying motivation, which might be the most offensive part all.
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By giving women the sexual upper hand, these remakes neutralize the most offensive aspects of the originals.
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Trump's most intemperate outbursts, his most offensive musings, pale before opinions that were mainstream in recent history.
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White entertainers wore it to amuse white crowds by playing into the most offensive and dehumanizing stereotypes.
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Really, the cost of all these extra dongles might be the most offensive thing about the new products.
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A theme park of colonized India is the most offensive and realistic rich yt nonsense I've ever seen.
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Let's begin with the nastiest, most offensive aspect of this -- the knocking-a-woman-to-the-ground aspect.
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And already, probably 20 years ago, you distanced yourself from some of the most offensive parts of that.
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Now the vote goes to the Senate, where we're sure they're already preparing their most offensive stand-up routines.
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John McCain, who she is challenging, pledging to support the Republican nominee -- alongside some of Trump's most offensive remarks.
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But last week he also received a dubious distinction: the star of the "most offensive" charity campaign of 2017.
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Meanwhile, if theorists like Gary and Soltani are right, your feed would slough off its most offensive, hateful content.
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Williams vigorously disputed each of the three rulings; the coaching violation seemed to be the most offensive to her.
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Most agents interviewed said a minority of those in the Facebook group were responsible for the most offensive posts.
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In perhaps the most offensive gambit, the film features footage of Lee's actual funeral as his character's staged funeral.
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As if we needed more evidence, she even favorably cites one of Trump's most offensive outbursts as a positive example.
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They appeared particularly concerned about limiting the government's ability to withhold trademarks featuring the most offensive words, including racial slurs.
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At the end of the course, the students' final exam involves disparaging the most offensive dish of all, pineapple pizza.
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He said the Liberty Place Monument is the "most offensive" of four statues set to come down in New Orleans.
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Unfortunately, the living room TV — the most offensive of all black plastic gadgets — won't be joining the movement anytime soon.
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What parenting and Internet safety expert Sue Scheff found most offensive about the whole controversy is the way adults were behaving.
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But perhaps the movie's most offensive aspect was the music, which sounded closer to rejected songs from a YA movie adaptation.
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"It was probably the most offensive thing I've seen in a state race," said Pat Brady, the former Illinois Republican chairman.
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It was partly the university's difficulty in recruiting top black athletes that led to the removal of the most offensive symbol.
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Yet another — the most offensive of the bunch — suggested that David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, was a crisis actor.
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He's not the smoothest fit in most offensive systems, and has never been one of the 10 best defenders at his position.
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"When management stepped out — and [they did it] in most offensive way possible — you started to see negative mentions surge, " he said.
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Watching his farewell address, what was most offensive to me was his recitation of his superficial chant from 6900: Yes we can!
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Some turn on their heels and leave, but those who stay offer a look inside the minds of Tinder's most offensive swipers.
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And that was offensive, but the most offensive part, we actually had to have a check when we went to the hospital.
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Most offensive operations have been left to small numbers of Afghan and American Special Operations soldiers, backed by both countries' air forces.
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Most offensive operations have been left to small numbers of Afghan and American Special Operations soldiers, backed by both countries' air forces.
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Most offensive, and what students vowed to overturn, was a curriculum that favored and exclusively reinforced Eurocentric and settler-colonist history and culture.
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Photo: GettyIt's no secret that the workforce tasked with reviewing the most offensive content on the web is underpaid, overworked, and poorly supported.
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As a Kennedy Democrat, what is most offensive to me is the degree that TrumpCare imposes cruel and unusual punishment against the poor.
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Most offensive of all—at least according to the Indonesian authorities—is that the package bears the words "Remas Aku" with a heart.
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But now it seems that his fifteen minutes of being the most offensive man on the internet may be coming to a close.
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Is it OK to be the most offensive you can think of toward individuals who are also equal to you under this Constitution?
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And it became apparent after Harry Styles' home was vandalized with the most offensive word one can use to refer to a woman.
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"Despite all the gross-out humor, the most offensive thing about this is the lazy filmmaking," wrote critic Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader.
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One of her closing ads amounted to a montage of what her advisers viewed as a montage of Trump's most offensive comments about women.
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So we decided to informally poll our female friends and coworkers to find out which queries are the most offensive or eye-roll worthy.
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Some might be tempted to brush off these ethical consequences, arguing that the posting of even the most offensive content is no big deal.
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However, it's neither fair to reduce all feminists to bra burners, nor right to judge the entire drag spectrum by its own most offensive fringes.
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In March, British politics magazine The Spectator ran a competition to see who could write the most offensive poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Leaked photos of Asus' upcoming ZenFone 6 flagship phone were published by the likes of C4ETech, where the most offensive notch position has been sighted.
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Twitter, Facebook and others have turned to artificial intelligence to weed out the most offensive content, and humans make judgment calls about the borderline ones.
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It's low-tech and lightweight, prioritizing its function above all else: As an anonymous message board system for some of the world's most offensive discussion.
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Earlier this year, Johnson won £1,000 for writing "the most offensive poem" about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—Johnson's entry featured Erdoğan having sex with a goat.
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"If [seeing this play] is the most shocking thing, if this is the most offensive thing that you've experienced that day, then you're not really paying attention."
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" Following the murder of the Dallas police officers in July, he posted a string of outrageous tweets, the most offensive of which read: "This is now war.
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To better assess where we're at in 2016, we asked LGBTQ people to tell us the most offensive questions they've ever been asked and how they responded.
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It hands out annual awards for the best and worst fundraising appeals, last year naming a video starring the British singer Ed Sheeran among the most offensive.
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Liam McHugh, never one to miss an opportunity, remarks that this is now the most offensive thing Milbury has ever done involving attacking someone with one shoe.
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"In general, the Christchurch shooter kept his most offensive comments for 8chan, and even there, he only posted his intentions shortly before the shooting," Nimmo told VICE News.
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"The use of the n-word in the workplace is considered by courts, and our society, as the most offensive racial slur imaginable," said McKnight's lawyer, Dan Gilleon.
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"Harroz added that Gade was in a position of authority, and his use of the "most offensive" word "hurt and minimize[d] those in the classroom and beyond.
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Even the most offensive footwear makes its way into fashion at one time or another — from chunky sandals or orthopedic sneakers, the "ugly" shoe options run the gamut.
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But applications that include a reference to "the single-most offensive racial slur"—the n-word, presumably—have been put on hold pending the court's ruling in Iancu.
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Yet her third-rail touching was most offensive to the public because of the way it treated politics largely politically, which is to say messily and without resolution.
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Just as many Democrats believe that appearing anywhere on Fox legitimizes the network's most offensive bloviators, many believe that courting Trump voters will require legitimizing the president's views.
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This year, for the first time in my life, I am not actually going home for Christmas — the most offensive phrase one could dare utter in my family.
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A recent ad against North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who wants to repeal HB2 if he's elected Governor, employs this transphobic argument in the most offensive way possible.
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Throughout the height of this summer's fighting season, however, the Afghan forces have remained largely defensive, with most offensive operations being conducted by the Taliban, military analysts here say.
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And the most offensive thing Mitt Romney ever said about women was that he had consulted binders full of their résumés in order to hire them to his staff.
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"We were looking for quotes that lent themselves to the most offensive, absurd, combinations that captured the same twisted sense of humor in Cards Against Humanity," Da Silva told Mashable.
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"Being from the south, I think one of the most offensive things that you can accuse somebody of is [serving] a store-bought pie," Sanders said at an event Wednesday.
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So Friedman openly sides against longstanding American policy towards Israel, insults Jews who disagree with him in some of the most offensive terms possible, and has zero formal diplomatic experience.
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But his comments were primarily an appeal to top Republican leadership, which has tried to criticize Trump's most offensive statements while also still supporting him over Hillary Clinton in the election.
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Too often they devolve into racist, misogynistic maelstroms where the loudest, most offensive, and stupidest opinions get pushed to the top and the more reasoned responses drowned out in the noise.
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Other than those weirdly sped-up portions, the Aladdin choreography is shockingly low-energy, with the most offensive choice being to not fill the frame within an inch of its life.
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I was extremely upset, and I was trying to make the person I was angry with upset as well, and so I said the most offensive thing that came to mind.
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu described it as "the most offensive of the four" monuments slated for removal, adding that it was erected to "revere white supremacy," according to the Guardian.
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We may have found Pretty Little Liars craziest, and possibly most offensive, plot line yet — Charlotte gave her dolls to an Amish child during her rare excursions out of the mental institution?
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He doubled down on all the things that were most offensive to us.... This doubling down that he's been doing has made it close to impossible for us to get on board.
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"We have had to wage an almost inconceivable battle with Facebook to provide us with the most basic of protections to remove the most offensive and incendiary content," they wrote in the letter.
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Mr. Horowitz, the Democratic Union leader and a longtime advocate for religious pluralism, said that what was most offensive was what he called the exploitation of "captive audiences" of army recruits and schoolchildren.
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Still, the next two months of June and July have historically been where Trout has done his most offensive damage; he has a career OPS of 1.036 in June and 1.022 in July.
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One of its most offensive moves occurred in 2015, when it displayed the object in a major exhibition sponsored by BP, which was then pushing to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
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Jeremy Corbyn, the party leader, was accused by the former Chief Rabbi of being an anti-Semite who had uttered the most offensive comments heard from a senior British politician in half a century.
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For example, the "Most Offensive Media Personality" award was given to Stephen A. Smith, the ESPN pundit who was once suspended for talking on air about the responsibility women bear for provoking domestic violence.
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It's not the most offensive lie he's uttered, though in the grand pantheon of memorable Donald Trump lies this particular lie is an insult to every voter in America, regardless of their political affiliation.
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"On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death," Steven Goldstein said in a statement.
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Why it matters: Facebook's policy puts itself in the untenable position of constantly defending some of the most offensive content imaginable, including some that is widely and unequivocally accepted as false by most cultures.
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Even one of Siempra's most offensive scenes — when Cristobal's violently racist dad Fernando (Edu Martin) is bewitched into dancing with a slave woman — could have still happened if the series' writers were passionate about it.
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There is never a good week to face the Seahawks' defense, but for the Jets — coming off one of the most offensive offensive performances in their franchise history — the schedule could not be much tougher.
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Earlier this week, Britain's former chief rabbi called Corbyn an anti-Semite and said comments about Zionists he made five years ago were the most offensive by a senior UK politician in half a century.
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All told, Democrats say, the legal onslaught against Mr. Trump was a crystallizing moment for the party's attorneys general — and a model for how to stall or unwind the administration policies they find most offensive.
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Meanwhile, campaign surrogates reiterated that the incoming administration would seek to enact some of its most offensive proposals, arguing that the WWII internment of Japanese Americans would serve as "precedent" for a mass registration of Muslims.
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Justice Elena Kagan said the argument by President Donald Trump's administration in defense of the law appeared to be based largely on a commitment that the government would ban only trademarks featuring the most offensive words.
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" A dictionary called "Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present"codified the sobriquet in 1811 as "the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of a whore.
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It's not his most offensive idea (deporting 11 million people) or his most impractical (The Wall), but nominating Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court, which Trump reportedly wants to do, may very well be his worst.
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The most offensive part of the debate over the BAT is the fact that the large corporations pushing it already use a multitude of federal loopholes and deductions to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
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Someone will make the argument that story stuff can often be added far into development, but it doesn't change the fact that it feels like an afterthought, which is really the most offensive thing about it.
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"I do find that actually quite hurtful and quite offensive," Corbyn told the BBC regarding a British rabbi's accusation that Corbyn has made the most offensive comments since an infamous speech by late politician Enoch Powell.
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"It's ones of the most offensive, concerning things I've seen that there were people, more than one, making decisions and thinking maybe Flint isn't the community we should go out on a limb for," he said.
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"It is common sense to avoid uttering the most offensive word in the English language, especially in an environment where the speaker holds the power," Harroz said in a statement posted to the university's Twitter page.
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"On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death," executive director Steven Goldstein said in a statement.
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Fringe-right media is extremely active on Twitter, but when its most offensive pundits and participants are banned there, they can simply regroup on Gab, the platform Breitbart recently described as a ''free speech Twitter alternative.
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" John C. Liu, a former councilman and city comptroller whose mayoral ambitions were derailed by financial improprieties, called Mr. Carranza's remarks "the most offensive and irritating comments that Asian-Americans have heard in quite some time.
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"I firmly believe that Donald Trump is the most offensive and dangerous presidential candidate we've ever had, certainly in the 20th century," Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard told CNN in a phone interview last week.
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Which leads us to the most obvious aspect of l'Affaire Bee, one that the pearl-clutchers seem to be overlooking: What is the point of having the most offensive word in English if you can't use it?
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His chief accomplishment of the evening was most likely his reciting, over and over, Mr. Trump's most offensive comments — about women, Hispanics, Muslims and others — to block Mr. Pence from presenting a softer image for his ticket.
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"President Trump's Twitter feed is a repugnant place, and no one would want the thankless task of having to weed through all his bitter, bigoted ramblings to determine which are the most offensive," the editorial board wrote.
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The play-action pass has been compared to the NBA's three-point shot in terms of giving a team the most offensive bang for its buck, and Atlanta used it to create big plays by the bushel.
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By refusing to take a stand on hate speech, they allow the worst of their communities to hide behind cries of "free speech" and "fake news" all while increasingly targeting people with the most offensive and odious harassment.
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"On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death," said Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center.
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The mother of a child killed during the Sandy Hook massacre lashed out at National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch for saying the media loves mass shootings, calling it "the most offensive thing" Loesch has ever said.
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But whereas traditional news outlets are likely to issue a warning before broadcasting graphic images or decide to censor the most offensive content, such precautions are often ignored on the web, especially from individuals and less established outfits.
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The Taliban are able to attack government-held centers almost at will because Afghan troops and the police generally hunker down in defensive positions on bases, checkpoints and command centers, leaving most offensive operations to commandos and airstrikes.
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Fox News has whipped the Republican Party into a number of government shutdowns, and much of Trump's most offensive rhetoric comes on a direct conveyor belt from conservative media feeding him conspiracies that he transforms into presidential proclamations.
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"The most offensive place I have ever stayed at in my life with staff who pick and choose who they are going to accommodate based on racial profiling #Coachella," Drake wrote in a post that has since been deleted.
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Here's how he's using them to take on Trump" by Recode's Tony Romm: Last fall, "the LinkedIn co-founder cooked up ... a card game ... where players could compete to outdo each other in crafting the most offensive phrases possible.
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It's easy to see why: This is rap in its rawest, most offensive, and most immature form—MCs lay down bars that touch on their opponents family, race, sexual orientation, appearance, and whatever else they can grab hold of.
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"What makes the entire situation all the more horrific is that we have had to wage an almost inconceivable battle with Facebook to provide us with the most basic of protections to remove the most offensive and incendiary content."
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According to Levant, throwing shit at a random woman's face on the street or shoving a bag of it down her shorts may simply be the "most offensive" form of punishment enforced upon women for not giving men sex.
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If the minds that govern baseball want to make an actual difference, why not demand Cleveland Indians owners Paul and Larry Dolan bury the most offensive caricature in modern sports instead of policing what costumes veterans make rookies wear?
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Bergen predicts convincingly that the future of swearing in America belongs to slurs, because these are already the words judged most offensive, and they're the ones most likely to be punished these days by sports leagues, schools and offices.
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Fallon doesn't say this explicitly, but a number of his tweets sound like admissions that what the Clinton campaign tried to do — counterpunching and attacking Trump's most offensive utterances to stay in the news cycle — was basically a failure.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has called Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite and said comments about Zionists he made five years ago were the most offensive by a senior UK politician in half a century.
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So the LinkedIn co-founder cooked up plans during the presidential election to challenge Trump at his own game — a card game, to be exact, where players could compete to outdo each other in crafting the most offensive phrases possible.
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In August Britain's former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks called Corbyn an anti-Semite and said comments about Zionists made by him in 2013, before he was Labour's leader, were the most offensive by a senior UK politician in half a century.
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Although "human capital" is an unsightly term—in 2004 a panel of German linguists deemed Humankapital the most offensive word of the year—it is the task of social science to identify and refine concepts that would otherwise be fuzzy.
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"The most offensive place I have ever stayed at in my life with staff who pick and choose who they are going to accommodate based on racial profiling #Coachella," he wrote, accompanying the club's logo, according to a screenshot on Pitchfork.
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Paul Goldschmidt, who leads Arizona in most offensive categories, saw his six-game hitting streak come to an end on Sunday as his team mustered all of three hits in a 5-2 setback to National League West-leading Colorado.
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Meredith Kelly, a spokeswoman for the committee, confirmed that its data team was studying which of Mr. Trump's ideas and comments would be most offensive to key voting blocs, and how best to project those themes in congressional races. Gov.
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Let's take a closer look at how Durant fits into Golden State's game-plan, and what we can expect to see once the 2016-17 season tips off: Pick-and-roll plays are the staple of most offensive possessions in today's NBA.
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Read more: This is the difference between one, two, and three Michelin-starred restaurantsBut the most offensive thing the Michelin inspectors did, in the eyes of Veyrat, was suggesting he had used cheddar in his soufflé rather than reblochon, beaufort, and tomme.
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"What makes the entire situation all the more horrific is that we have had to wage an almost inconceivable battle with Facebook to provide us with the most basic of protections to remove the most offensive and incendiary content," the parents wrote.
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Of course, the most offensive part of it all is Stacey King, vacant of morals, the voice of sadism and evil itself, just as he would have done if he were watching murder itself come into the world all those years ago.
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Back in present-day Australia, Master Tom's is currently holding a "Rename the Most Offensive Burger in Australia" contest, promising a year's worth of free burgers to anyone who can give it a new name that's, you know, completely unrelated to slavery.
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" And the legalese suggested, as Greenwald noticed, the involvement of network higher-ups: "The most offensive passage here — 'CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change' — sounds like classic lawyer language that executives or corporate lawyers would demand be included.
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With that in mind, we sent photographer Darragh Dandurand to the event to photograph some of the most horrible demons of the night: people dressed as the candidates, as some of Trump's most offensive comments and ideas, and—scariest of all—as the election cycle itself.
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At a forum held in November at the Kaye Playhouse, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia who has performed in Gilbert and Sullivan works, noted that many of the most offensive elements of recent productions were invented by stage directors.
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But Lord Sacks told the New Statesman, a political weekly, that this was the most offensive thing heard in high-level British politics since a speech in 1968 when Enoch Powell, a right-wing Conservative, predicted rivers of blood flowing as a result of Commonwealth immigration to Britain.
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It all came home while I was watching Sex and the City 2, which is not only one of the worst movies I've ever seen from a technical perspective but also probably the most offensive—other than the Birth of America clips we were shown in history class.
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They can see him as "honest" while simultaneously dismissing many of the things he has actually said, because they assume that the most offensive things he has said are simply deliberate provocations — and they usually feel that the people being provoked deserve to be taken down a peg.
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This idea is referred to as "virtue signaling," meaning that there is no such thing as real virtue, only a pretend virtue that people deploy to try to win points with mainstream society, when everybody would be better off dropping the pretense and letting their most offensive freak flags fly.
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The real talk: But most of the conversation between Calacanis and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, a serial entrepreneur who is the founder of Promise, focused on Calacanis's record of provocative comments on Twitter and elsewhere, for which he has faced years of criticism (including a "most offensive tweet of 2014" prize from Vice).
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Weirdly though, the most offensive part of this - aside from the fact the woman is wearing two-tone earrings - it is that it opens with a slightly muted ska cover of Haddaway's emotional dance masterpiece "What Is Love", suggesting they covered that previously, which is like they've gained access to my nightmares.
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No matter that most of the books seized in the raid on the library in 2015 and cited by the prosecution were in special storage and not available to the public, or that, according to the library staff, the book deemed most offensive by the state was planted there by the police.
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But as Ms. Collier watched recent news reports from the South, she was struck by the comments of Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, S.C., who told MSNBC that the most offensive statue on the statehouse grounds was not of a Confederate soldier, but of Sims, who was a native of the state.
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War on campus: The battle over free speech Whether it should be legal is another question, and while we won't wander too far down that path, it's important to remember the US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that it's the most offensive idea -- and not the notion with which everyone generally agrees -- that deserves protection.
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After all, the best demagogues know that one of the most important skills to have is the ability to play off your most offensive and outrageous statements as having been nothing more than mere slips of the tongue or unfair misinterpretations by the media should the backlash against your statements get a little too hot.
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Some were, to be sure, but as many denizens of alt-right gathering places like 4chan's /pol/ modeled themselves after British free speech firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos — saying the most offensive thing possible to get a rise out of people, reveling in his disengagement — as well as those who were committed white nationalists like Richard Spencer.
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By refusing to take a stand on hate speech, they allow the worst of their communities to hide behind cries of "free speech" and "fake news" all while increasingly targeting people with the most offensive and odious harassment... YouTube is not enforcing the policies and are not removing known and identified users who employ hate speech tactics.
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"While the professor's comments are protected by the First Amendment and academic freedom, his comment and word choice are fundamentally offensive and wrong," said the interim president, Joseph Harroz Jr. "The use of the most offensive word, by a person in a position of authority, hurt and minimized those in the classroom and beyond," Mr. Harroz said.
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Perhaps the most offensive thing about Logan (besides the fact that his fanfared debut implies these spunky, self-sufficient girls needed a boy in their lives) is that, like the other rootless dolls in American Girl's bland "contemporary" lines, he is marketed as interesting not because of his historical connections, but because he is available for purchase.
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Over the last two weeks, there have been stories about: Elizabeth Warren has already seized on the flood of damaging stories, calling Mnuchin the "Forrest Gump of the financial crisis"—which presumably means that he's an overrated 90s relic about how white people actually did all of the good things in the 60s and 70s and one of the most offensive things ever produced in this country.
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Davis had 23 points and 63 rebounds and guard Tyreke Evans came off the bench to score a season-high 16 points to do the most offensive damage, but it was the relentless defense posted by 6-foot-8 forward Dante Cunningham against Knicks 7-3 center Kristaps Porzingis and small forward Solomon Hill against Carmelo Anthony that sent the frustrated Knicks (16-16) to their third consecutive loss.
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Douthat: Right, so this is the usual Large Adult Son thing with Trump Jr., where you had a period when the allegations were reported to be tamer than they proved to be, and conservatives expected this to be a nothing story and made jokes like this … and then Trump the younger decided to make the most offensive possible version of the joke just when its premise was becoming untenable.
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