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I should think the worst part of moderating is not getting to ignore anybody. Wouldn't do it for the Bruins' bar tab. [/crossthread]

 

Forgive me. Allow me to rephrase:

Step 1: Choose moderators who call your regular customers a bunch of jerks.

Yes, that changes the point entirely.

 

So Link Wray's kid got the FBI gig?

 

Speaking of Russia, Jesse Ventura has a new platform:

"I am working for the enemy of mainstream media now," Ventura said of "The World According to Jesse," a variety show airing Fridays beginning this month on RT America, the Washington D.C. arm of the international network RT. The network formerly known as Russia Today is funded by the government and touts itself as bringing "the Russian view on global news."

That's fine, the man has a right to work where he chooses. But he is referred to as a Navy SEAL. He wasn't. He served honorably as a member of the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team.

Ventura is loyal to the network in part because he and his wife, Terry, lost his union health insurance in 2016 with the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA, because he was doing too little union-related work.

"I was in a panic," he recalled. He called RT, where he already had a contract, and the network enrolled him in a health insurance plan in 10 days. "Russian Television saved my wife and I," he said.

During lunch of a grilled cheese sandwich and a side of coleslaw at a White Bear Lake restaurant, Ventura said he continues to pride himself on being in top condition. He spends hours lifting weights and exercising on an elliptical machine. He weighs 220 pounds, less than he did when he finished his tour of duty in the Navy SEALs during the Vietnam War.

Ventura says he was flown to Moscow by RT to attend the 10th anniversary of the network in December 2015 and where the featured speaker was Putin. This appears to have been the same dinner attended by Michael Flynn, Trump's short-lived national security adviser who was forced to resign after 24 days in part due to his communications with the Russian ambassador. Flynn's resignation is part of growing scrutiny into Russia's influence on the 2016 election.

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura has a new gig — on Russian television

 

And now you are the one dragging it out, and going after other board members in the process. You also had posters jump in to point out that you had corrected the issue and I said you handled it properly once advised of the problem with your post.

 

And we're surprised by this?

 

The president "feels vindicated" but still has his PAC release a Comey attack ad. Uh-huh.

In Political Media First, Trump Releases Comey Attack Ad

 

This is kind of a surprise. A welcome surprise.

 

Still have the Gophers hockey cap I bought on my only trip to Mall of America in 99, but if I had it to do over would have sprung for the "My governor can beat up your governor" T-shirt instead.

 

I encourage reporters to follow the money and see if it is, in fact, donated. The alleged president boasted about various donations that the Post proved he never made.

 

Identity politics leads to very bad places.