News w/ @BresPolitico: Trump personally interviewed two candidates for U.S. attorney jobs in New York: https://t.co/vdJsffQxxj
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 19, 2017
THIS DOES NOT LOOK AT ALL SUSPICIOUS (assuming IOKIYAR is your first & only principle… )
President Donald Trump has personally interviewed at least two potential candidates for U.S. attorney positions in New York, according to two sources familiar with the matter — a move that critics say raises questions about whether they can be sufficiently independent from the president.
Trump has interviewed Geoffrey Berman, who is currently at the law firm Greenberg Traurig for the job of U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ed McNally of the firm Kasowitz Benson Torres for the Eastern District post, according to the sources.
It was unclear when the discussions took place. Trump has not announced nominees for those positions. Neither Berman nor McNally responded to calls or emails requesting comment…
The Southern District of New York is an especially notable position since it has jurisdiction over Trump Tower. Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney there, has asserted he was conducting an investigation into the Trump administration when Trump fired him along with all other U.S. attorneys — as is standard when an administration switches — earlier this year.
It is rare for a president to interview candidates for the 93 U.S. attorney jobs. Former President Barack Obama never interviewed a U.S. attorney candidate during his two terms, according to Matthew Miller, who served as Justice Department spokesman under the Obama administration…
“To be very blunt, these three jurisdictions will have authority to bring indictments over the ongoing special counsel investigation into Trump campaign collusion with the Russians and potential obstruction of justice by the president of the United States,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview Thursday. “For him to be interviewing candidates for that prosecutor who may in turn consider whether to bring indictments involving him and his administration seems to smack of political interference.”
Blumenthal asserted during an oversight hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this week that Trump had interviewed candidates in New York, although he did not go into details. During the hearing, the Connecticut senator noted that it would be “quite unusual” for the president to get involved…
U.S. attorneys are also subject to the “blue-slip process,” meaning home-state senators could try to unilaterally block a nominee moving forward. For the New York position, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand would be the ones giving the green light for the nominee to advance.
Now we know why Mitch ‘Trump’s Bitch” McConnell was trying to kill the blue-slip process last week, I guess. Reducing Senate prerogatives had never previously seemed to be his jam. The entire GOP is letting Trump destroy the last shreds of their credibility, and they’re not even getting any of their legislative wishlist in return!
Once again:
It is neither normal nor advisable for Trump to personally interview candidates for US Attorney positions, especially the one in Manhattan. https://t.co/RFURo523Nb
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 18, 2017
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
However low this feculent homunculus goes, there’s always a yawning pit beneath him to lower himself into.
SiubhanDuinne
I don’t trust one single thing these cretins do.
Thru the Looking Glass...
Only if your a Dem… can you imagine the shrieking you’d be hearing right now if Obama had done something like this?
For Trump, it’s just another day at the office…
efgoldman
I don’t know which is worse: That the crime family is so blatant about it, or that they’re sure they can get away with it.
NotMax
“Cell phones and souls must be left at check-in station before entering interview room. Not respnosible for damages to checked items.”
Brachiator
Inevitably, Fox News and related propaganda outlets will talk about how bold and innovative Trump is in bypassing middlemen and doing the interviews himself. Besides, he just knows how to evaluate prospective attorneys. Didn’t we all see him do stuff like this on The Apprentice.
And there’s no way that Trump would be making demands for personal loyalty to him. He’s not that kind of guy.
What a farce.
rikyrah
Larry O’s opening segment tonight on Kelly is blistering
Major Major Major Major
@Thru the Looking Glass…: at least it’s not somebody who hasn’t been president in 16 years briefly meeting with the attorney general, THAT would be a constitutional crisis.
rikyrah
David CornVerified account @DavidCornDC
David Corn Retweeted David S. Cohen
The head of the CIA is apparently lying about the intelligence community’s work. Anything to protect #DearLeader.
Mnemosyne
Day three of my sprained knee and I got overly ambitious with it today, plus I forgot to keep up on my ibuprofen. Gah. I took some as soon as I got home and I’m icing right now.
And my First World Problem of the day is that I wanted to get my hair colored this weekend, but she can’t fit me in until Thursday night. Pity me! My roots are showing!
Brachiator
The Senate budget plan reveals their core values.
Ohio Mom
@Mnemosyne: That is why I went gray. It is liberating not to have roots. But to be fair, I am older than you and waited until my late fifties, I wasn’t ready for gray hair until then. Now I love my silver locks.
@Brachiator: Those budget cuts scare the stuffing out of me.
chris
At the rate things are going (there’s just so much!) things like the New York attorneys may be mere footnotes in history. If there is anyone left to write it…
Made my night.
Ohio Mom
@Brachiator: Also, Graham is exaggerating, it’s not just tax cuts that make the Republican party “good for anybody.” They also have a lock on biogotry and anti-choice.
Mnemosyne
@Ohio Mom:
My mom’s family all goes gray by age 50, and I’m only 48, so I’m not ready for that. My older brother is pretty much 100 percent gray and he hasn’t hit 55 yet. It seems to be coming in as a very pretty silver-gray, so maybe someday … but not yet.
It helps that my colorist is a genius and gets my base color almost exactly right, so my roots aren’t that noticeable except to me. Still, a definite First World Problem.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne:
Funny thing about infrared pics, you can tell if someone dyes their hair.
chris
A small pile of kitties. Good night all
Peale
@Brachiator: at this point, I have stay, I wrote one of my final papers in college sophomore year about protecting ANWR, which was 29 years ago. Christ. Tell an oil company no, and they just won’t ever go away. Since that time, the oil majors have probably had close to 12 trillion in revenues and 2 trillion in profits and paid their top executives billions of dollars. Yeah. They’ve really been hurt by that loss.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Note to self — duck out of the frame the next time Bill points his infrared camera my way.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
It was quite the takedown.
GregB
I am told the upcoming batch of conservative Republican children can survive on coal ash snd nuclear fallout.
The devolution will be Twitterized.
Major Major Major Major
@chris:
Don’t be so sure, sometimes all it takes is a US Attorney (or the lack of one in Preet’s case) to make or break an entire presidency.
NotMax
@GregB
Brimstone and treacle.
(w/apologies to Dennis Potter, Sting and Denholm Elliott)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: This is what dyed hair looks like in IR.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Ack! Zombie!!
;)
Mnemosyne
@GregB:
There’s an old British sci-fi movie with that plot: These Are The Damned. One of Oliver Reed’s early co-starring roles.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: So… the same, then.
mai naem mobile
They are trying to go after Mueller on the uranium deal from 2010 while Mueller was the head of the FBI. The Hull has a story about the Russian Uranium company that took over 20 percent of American uranium had compromised the transportation company involved in the shipping. This is the deal they keep on going after Hilz because WJC made speeches or whatever to some Russian republic. I don’t care about that part,just the possible discrediting of Mueller.
Eljai
@chris: Sweet! Sleepy kittehs are just what I needed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Nope, unless it’s dyed that color. Just checked a visible light pic with here in it. Her hair color is dark brown with lighter tips.
Mnemosyne
@mai naem mobile:
The trolls were riding that story around yesterday. That’s how you know it’s coming from Russian propaganda.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: a woman in the office has hair that looks just like it so I thought it was funny is all :)
?BillinGlendaleCA
Dodgers win!
ETA: 11-1, damn.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Do trees look white to you? You may just have infrared vision.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Birch and poplar tend to look white to me.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: only the hair color matches, not the IR skin, shmeesh ?
Christopher H Green
Who could ever imagine that trump would obstruct justice to protect himself from consequences of the last time he obstructed justice.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: don’t forget aspen!
No Drought No More
They’re happy in L.A. tonight. Fuckin’ Dodgers. I’ve been telling people that in this foul year of Trump, it will be just my luck if it’s a Dodger-Yankee World Series. I’ve hated the Yankees since 1962, when they crushed my little 7 year old heart by beating the Giants in 7 games. My hatred for the Dodgers is more like one of the greatest loves of my life, a constant star through all my decades on earth. I pretty much despise the look of a Dodger uniform today with the same intensity as I did in 1962; it’s a really wonderful feeling, one I wouldn’t trade for all the whiskey in Ireland. But damn, I don’t ask for much, and I’ve look forward to watching the Series every year I can remember… and I’ll still watch it, but fuck. Fuckin’ Dodgers..
Christopher H Green
>…Ed McNally of the firm Kasowitz Benson Torres
Ummm..according to wikipedia, that firm has:
“…represented Donald Trump since 2001.[20] In January 2006, the firm filed a defamation lawsuit (dismissed in 2009) on behalf of Donald Trump against the author and publisher of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.[21][22] ”
and Rudi Giuliani is a partner at the law firm of the other.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: True.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@No Drought No More: God wears Dodger Blue.
Omnes Omnibus
@No Drought No More: You seem like a ranty person. Have you ever considered lowering your caffeine intake?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Christopher H Green: Actually Trump thought he was interviewing Rand McNally, he wanted to know where North Korea was.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Do the leaves look white?
Frankensteinbeck
@mai naem mobile:
Good, let them waste their time with that useless line of reasoning. It’s too esoteric and disconnected. It will convince only the already convinced. Any good it does them, they already had wrapped up.
frosty
Oh, FFS, I’m getting Duck Dynasty ads. I blame Tamara.
Peale
@Major Major Major Major: it’s kind of a sucky super power to end up with anyway. Sure, the hero can see in the dark so he or she can be fearless in the night and seek out villainy that lurks in the shadows. But the hero tends to get hung up on hair. Hair distractions. Not very hero like. Probably beats fire breath, but not by much.
efgoldman
WAY TO GO, RAIDUZZ!!
(ETA: Or not)
Major Major Major Major
@Peale: speaking from personal experience, sounds like.
NotMax
@Peale
There are wa-a-a-ay suckier super powers.
Just sayin’.
Adam L Silverman
@mai naem mobile: The Hill story was written by a guy that jumped to them two months ago from Sinclair (Johnson) and the coauthor is also from one of these wingnut outlets. What they’ve alleged has been thoroughly debunked over the past two years and was originally reported by the NY Times. In fact this is at least the third time the President and extremist right media outlets or people working at mainstream outlets have tried to resurrect it since February. It is almost like there’s some type of coordination…
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: No 10 run rule?
Corner Stone
Big push off.
Adam L Silverman
@Christopher H Green: Mark Kasowitz is the President’s long time personal attorney and was handling the President’s defense team on the Mueller probe until about 3 months ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: At the right angle, yes.
lamh36
Oh..no…a Trump official not quite getting the facts straight…whocoodanode?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Guess not.
NotMax
Repeating from below. Once the camel’s nose is in the tent….
Corner Stone
Crabs!
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Are we trying to find Lothlorien?
Adam L Silverman
@frosty: How are the Ya’ll Qaeda first family?
Mnemosyne
Cole and his Twitter buddies are taking Chuck Norris memes and substituting Rep. Maxine Waters’s name. It’s pretty much as awesome as it sounds.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I wrote about this when I did my Kurdish independence referendum post back in September.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: You need to get out of FL.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: No, I just like taking pretty pics in near IR.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: You can take the man out of Florida, but you can’t Florida out of the man; he’s still Florida Man.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I hear fireworks going off.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Meh. He recently did an “unpopular truths” thing that was tiresome as fuck. I bet this one will get there soon or flip to misogyny quickly.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Like I said, everyone assumes he has some Make America White Again Agenda, no Trump is about Trump and nothing else.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: No argument here. You have no idea how badly I want an assignment outside of Florida. In the past three months I’ve offered to go back to Iraq and to go to Afghanistan to get out of Florida.
Omnes Omnibus
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: And you are responding to what?
lamh36
Alright I’m going to bed. I see cheeto is tweeting bullshit again and I want to keep my good feels from Obama’s rally speech & tonights episode of Will & Grace. Seriously, if you didn’t catch it first time or you don’t normally watch Will And Grace check out tonight’s ep…it was funny & heartwarming…the ending…I LEGIT almost cried!
Good night…BJ
Adam L Silverman
This seems topical:
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I didn’t mean to rub a sore spot.
Mary G
I am happy about the Dodgers, I was two years old and living at Adams and Hoover in LA when they came out from Brooklyn and my dad would take me out to see the fans go into the Coliseum. I am ambivalent about the Yankees, though.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: It is what it is. I am going to state that when I do finally get an assignment that gets me out of here that I will have burned off whatever bad karma I’ve accrued.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus: Thought of you the other day. One of the visiting nurses that comes to the house drives a British racing green Saab 9.3. I don’t know what year, but they’ve been very thin on the ground around these parts for years.
dmsilev
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Let’s hope nobody accidentally lights the forest on fire. Again.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Know a man whose hair went pure white when he was 28. It was different.
Now of course I’m not picking on you but, “Your roots are showing?” All I have are roots. Roots and skin. Of course I’m a bit older than you.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Sounds like Philip Sheridan’s opinion about Texas, which I imagine you’ve heard before.
(For anyone who hasn’t, ‘If I owned Hell and Texas, I’d live in Hell and rent out Texas’)
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: Its not quite that bad.
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure you’re not a lady. It’s different for ladies. ;-)
burnspbesq
@Mary G:
I lived at 28th and Hoover (across from the TriDelt house when Cindy McCain lived there) my second year in law school. by 1980, the neighborhood north of USC was a shithole, and the areas west of USC and south of Exposition Park were worse. I don’t go up there much these days, but I hear it’s bounced back.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Funny. NE should be old Saab central. Proper preppies/WASPs who buy nice things and keep them forever. The re-sole their loafers crowd. Or are you in the Italian/Irish/Portuguese part of New England? Better food, less old school style. Fewer Saabs there.
Corner Stone
@dmsilev: God but I hate people from CA.
NotMax
@Ruckus
Knew someone once whose hair did that at 16. As did his siblings’. Ran in the family.
scott alloway
@No Drought No More: Remember 1963.
dmsilev
@Corner Stone: I’m safe then; I only moved here a couple of years ago.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
And you thought I’d bring that up for what reason? To take all the fun out?
Mary G
@burnspbesq: I haven’t been there in a long time, but I know West Adams has been gentrified little by little.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Watch A Man Called Ove if you ever care to see a true Saabaholic.
Not the main plot. A tender little Swedish film.
scott alloway
@Mary G: Sir. If one is a Dodgers fan (or Mets or Giants or Bosox), the proper response is FTFY.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: Back at ya cowpoke.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I have a mirror. I should be okay.
Davebo
@Corner Stone: Especially those who are fond of Philip Sheridan.
Then again, they are rare.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: West Adams? I have pictures!
ETA: Maybe make a good OTR…hmmmm.
Ruckus
@burnspbesq:
Your definition of shithole is different than mine. I thought it had gone shithole well before that. And I used to go down the that area every day. Grandmother lived in the area till early 60s and I worked at then owned a business about a mile east of there. Had employees who lived around there. All that said it has made a comeback and isn’t nearly as bad as it once was.
Ruckus
@Corner Stone:
You gotta be like that?
Davebo
In fairness, most people who hate people in California seem to live in California (purely anecdotal note from time in SFO, Monterrey, Santa Cruz and LA).
To me, if you really want to find people who hate people living in the same town they live in Denver and Seattle take the cake.
Aleta
@Ruckus: All I have are roots. Roots and skin.
Evergreen foliage too I bet.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Except there haven’t been any new ones for, what, 10+ years?
They’ve pretty much been pushed out by Subarus (mostly Foresters; to a lesser extent, Outbacks), the ubiquitous throughout the Northeast CR-V (even Cole has one), to a lesser extent Toyota RAV-4s, and for the upscale ($40k++) crowd, Volvos.
Duane
@NotMax my super power wish is the ability to talk to animals. Might not be useful, just fun.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: 2011.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Still and all a nice, unpretentious little heart warmer of a movie. trailer
NotMax
@NotMax
Line from the film:
“He drives an Audi! Four zeroes on the front and another one behind the wheel.”
rikyrah
@Brachiator:
They want to eliminate the 20th century
lamh36
rikyrah
@lamh36:
It was very good, lamh
frosty
@Adam L Silverman:
LOL. I don’t know and I don’t wanna know. Carl Hiassan took them down really well in a recent book. Might have been Razor Girl, that’s the one I read last.
frosty
@Mary G:
My Dad grew up in Nassau County and watched them at Ebbets Field. Which impressed the hell out of my Dodger fan roommates in California when he visited me when he was on a business trip.
frosty
@Corner Stone:
What about people who moved to CA and then left? Do they count as Californians?
frosty
@scott alloway:
Or Orioles. Or any AL East team.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: Someday, somewhere, a news outlet will use the word “lied”. Maybe.
NotMax
@frosty
Trivia: Ebbets Field, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, was built on a dump site formerly known as Pigtown.
Mary G
@scott alloway: Oh, I hate the NY Fucking Yankees with the heat of a thousand suns. I am ambivalent whether or not I want to see them in the Series on Tuesday. It would be sweet to see the Dodgers beat them, but it might be sweeter to see the Astros take them out immediately.
frosty
@NotMax: There’s a Pigtown in Baltimore, too, where they ran the hogs up Washington Street from the B&O terminal to the slaughterhouses. I wonder if there’s one everywhere.
Mike in NC
Pigtown in downtown Baltimore was where the Navy Reserve Center at Fort McHenry was relocated in the 1990’s during renovation. Drilled there for several years in the Inner Harbor. Good times they were…
NotMax
@frosty
The Pigtown in Brooklyn was a sizeable garbage dump named after the pigs regularly rooting for eats there. The stench in the area was reportedly legendary.
Ruckus
@Aleta:
I’m bald. My forehead turns into my back head. Memms and I have met a few times, we are having fun at each others expense.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: Omnivores’ shit really stinks, so pigs make even worse neighbors than cows. Ask an Iowan!
The town I now live in was founded, 300-some years ago, as a place where pigs could fatten on the abundant acorn crops and be slaughtered for sale in the then-new metropolis of Boston, a whole day’s trip (some 15 miles) down the river. The oak bark produced tannins, which could be used to turn pig skins into saleable hides — but tanning that way stinks almost worse than the pig manure. As the nation matured, and the favored ‘red meat’ switched from pork to beef, the blighted slaughterhouse and tannery sites were turned into light-industrial sites (heavy on the toxic chemicals & petroleum leaks into the groundwater)…
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Mike in Pasadena
@NotMax: I gave up on “A Man Called Ove” last night. I got as far as the third time he tried to hang himself and the movie then goes on and on about his thoughts in his last seconds as he is dying which is a review of his entire life. When a locomotive runs over his father who is showing Ove’s great report card, I said, “That’s it, had enough.” I ejected the DVD and said, no more Swedish movies that are advertised as “morbidly humorous.” Morbid, yes. Humorous, no. I didn’t get even one chuckle from this dog of a movie. The morbid was just too much. I understand Tom Hanks is cast to film a remake. If it is ANYTHING like the original, my statement to Mr. Hanks would be, “Don’t bother, go find some other vehicle.”
NotMax
@Mike in Pasadena
GIve it a another chance. His backstory is relevant, albeit could have been handled moire discreetly.
Mike in Pasadena
@NotMax: Gag.
Bess
Amador City, CA has a Pig Turd Alley.
NotMax
@Mike in Pasadena
May not be your style. Will admit to my eyes becoming noticeably moister by the end, which doesn’t often happen.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
The creepiest part was where he tried to pressure her into sex at his house WHILE HIS KIDS WERE IN THE OTHER ROOM. I know that people get all on their high horse like you went to his house, what did you expect? but I challenge you to find anyone who expects a dude to lure her out of the room where she’s watching a movie with HIS KIDS. Eeeewwww.
And if anyone tries to tell you that she should have spoken up after the first time he was a creepster, ask them if they think Yale School of Drama student Lupita Nyong’o would have been listened to the way Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o is listened to.
Mike in Pasadena
@NotMax: Thanks, but no thanks. What a horrible, awful, disgusting, foul, nasty movie that deserves to be forgotten as soon as possible. Really, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I only watched the first half hour, but I could not possibly force myself to see any more of it. I couldn’t stand all the laughter, you know? Farewell My Concubine, with a pipe being forced into the young man’s mouth until he bleeds, and fingers being chopped off is a close second. I walked out of that piece of shit, too. That piece of crap Ove should be destroyed as soon as possible to spare others the torture of Ove’s mother’s funeral and the daily visits to his wife’s grave and repeated attempts at suicide and father being run over by locomotive, etc., etc., etc. Holy cow, why bother with such a disgusting, morbid, boring, piece of pig shit? But I don’t feel strongly about my hatred for the Ove movie. Really. Just a mild, passing, revulsion I’m sure. However, when I really, really, really want to plunge into a deep, deep depression so that a doctor will prescribe happy pills, I will watch Ove again.
NotMax
@NotMax
In fact, found the flashback sequences modestly Bergmanesque.
Mnemosyne
@Mike in Pasadena:
That sounds like my reaction to In Bruges, which people told me was a comedy. It fucking is not, especially when the little boy gets shot.
NotMax
@Mike in Pasadena
The Nordic mixture of wry and dour doesn’t grab you. Got it.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
It sounds more like he doesn’t like movies that treat suicide and sudden violent death as comic occurrences. I tend to agree with Mike on that, but I think we already know that you and I have very divergent taste in movies.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
@Mnemosyne
It’s a dramedy.. Everything is not played for laughs, there is gentle humor in other parts to assuage the unfolding center of the bleak outlook not uncommon among the recently bereaved elderly..
The Book of Nordic Stand-up Comedians may not be the slimmest volume in the library, but it’s in the running.
2 Oscar nominations, too, including best foreign film.
AMinNC
@Mnemosyne: I feel your first-world-problem pain. Well I felt it for about 10 years and then, just over a year ago, I stopped coloring. I’m 49, and was ready to get off the treadmill. It wasn’t easy though, for a host of reasons. Number one: I dreaded the awful transition – and it was long and not altogether easy, I’ll be honest. On the bright side, I did have a lot of women ask me about it and say they wished they were brave enough to stop coloring. I also worried that I wouldn’t see myself as attractive anymore once I was all natural – there are almost NO examples in pop culture of women who are in my age range without colored hair. For women, to be sexual is to be young. Full stop. Well, damn it, I can still rock a short skirt and a two piece bathing suit, but there is no model for a grey haired woman to do that. I mean, I still do it anyway, but it is a hard and ongoing adjustment. I don’t think this attitude will change until a lot of women stop coloring when they start going grey. If we see thousands of examples of strong, attractive, grey-haired women in their 30s, 40s and 50s, then sexuality and competence and hair-color won’t be so automatically linked in our visual dictionary (for women, at least). Dudes get the latitude to be sexy and powerful AND look their age; women should as well. Yet another invisible privilege of being a man that often goes unremarked upon and unacknowledged. It may seem petty and insignificant, but it really does take up mental energy. All of which is to say – color if it makes you feel good. Don’t color if that makes you feel good.