Not news: Tucker Carlson grabbed a man's weener when in high school.
News: Because he wanted to hold onto the guy until the cops arrived.

Ethics
 

Apparently he did open his press conference on Tuesday by saying, without apparent irony, "I want to thank you all for coming out today."

• CARLSON: I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you know, and grabbed him, and -- and --
  
  ABRAMS: And did what?
  
  CARLSON: Hit him against the stall with his head, actually!

the hitting thing could be read two ways

as justified assault or unjustified assault?

which head. either way it was unjustified assult. I suppose under those facts it's like the free hit the defensive linemen get when the offense jumps offsides.

Anyway, my guess is Tucker's problem is he keeps showing up at the public bathroom in his bowtie and preppie clothes. That's more blatant than a wide stance.

My guess is that if someone ever hit on Tucker in a bathroom, he awkwardly declined, and then wished later he'd dealt with the situation in a better way, leading him now to share a little fiction about returning and hitting the guy. 'Cause his story just doesn't sound right at all.

Agree. His story sounds a bit like Costanza coming up with the witty comeback a few hours later, except then pretending he had it while there.

(I'm surprised a gay rights group hasn't come after him already for basically assaulting someone--it's not like he grew up in Wyoming)

If a guy whipped it out on me, there's no way I'd grab ahold.

True. Still, I think the Scarborough bit about Carlson loving his wife, and FTR Scarborough not being gay, either, compensates nicely for any factual flaws contained within the overall narrative.

The continuing health-care crisis.
 

Let's not adopt the Chinese system:

• In the absence of government funding, hospitals . . . have been turned into pharmacies on steroids, with more than half their recurrent funding from the sale of drugs. Much of the rest comes through diagnostic tests, which explains why some Chinese hospitals have better equipment than in the west.
  
  The system has in-built incentives for everyone to sell as many drugs as possible, including doctors, whose salaries are tied to prescription targets. As a result, rich China gets good hospitals, while poor China is lucky to get a clinic. It would be easy to blame the hospitals for shaking down their patients at the front door, but they have to grab money where they can. . . .
  
  The most common prescription is for antibiotics, with devastating effect. The health ministry announced the results of a survey this week showing about 70 per cent of child pneumonia patients were resistant to drugs used to treat the disease, because of overuse of antibiotics. In three children's hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the country's wealthiest cities, the figure climbed to 90 per cent.
  
  . . . A Chinese journalist visited 10 hospitals this year and, pretending to be a patient, provided tea in the place of a requested urine sample. Six of the hospitals said they had discovered "blood cells" in the "urine" and immediately prescribed drugs.

FT

Ethics
 

I agree. If I were about to get tossed out of the Senate for looking to smoke some cock, I'd be fucking depressed, not gay.

The Emporer is Jerking Off to Boy's Life
 

You are somewhat late in realizing that SD is not all broken out with empathy.

S_A_M

No straight man would ever do that. But a bow tie wearing, self loathing preppie with homosexual tendencies would.

I would grab it and smoke it, even.

EXCEPT NEVER IN A GUY'S BATHROOM. For the life of me, I can't figure out how anyone could fool around in the men's room. Buzz. Kill. I've had to use unisex bathrooms with urinals in them a handful (eh) of times, and Good God that shit smells like the homeless. Ain't no urinal cake gonna make it better either.

I'm not a big movie trivia guy, but I'm pretty sure it's a move that's been used by putatively straight action stars. I think Arnold did it in something. Total Recall?