I can understand your point and this is just a related comment and not meant as a critique of your point at all: If memory serves me, even kissing rules are different in different cultures. At a somewhat lower level on intimacy, I married into a family in which hugging of everyone by everyone else — including both family and friends — is ordinary but it was never done in the family in which I grew up except between mothers and young children.

Better to err on the side of caution is probably a good rule.

Look, it’s not the biggest deal in the world, but it’s paternalistic in particular and in general it’s a dominance display. In the instances we’ve seen it, it’s occurring in physical/public spaces where the recipient of these encroachments can’t just gracefully move away.

It’s sort of like when Trump goes to shake hands and then pulls the person forward off balance.

Anyway, I personally think it’s annoying and a little creepy. And yes everything Trump does is worse. Everything.

In a culture in which products to enhance physical attractiveness are advertised constantly, it seems a bit of a stretch to make a big deal about smelling hair or a touch on the shoulder. But, there may be more context than I currently know. I do know that we have the example of Trumpian antics to show what the modern GOP thinks is acceptable behavior.

“Nobody complained about being uncomfortable when it happened – they wait until Biden is thinking of running for President to bring it up?”

Yes, we know you don’t think women should ever be believed about harassment in any situation. You don’t need to double down on your libertarian based view of them as lower beings.

It will also be interesting to see what happens with the subpoena for the Mueller report and the other potential subpoena for all the other documents democrats want to look through – fishing for a crime or anything they can try to use in 2020. Of course, I suspect most of these subpoena’s will be quashed – but we will see.

In the meantime – what are the dems doing to Biden? He has the best shot of beating Trump and they are going after him for smelling hair and touching shoulders and so forth. Nobody complained about being uncomfortable when it happened – they wait until Biden is thinking of running for President to bring it up? So transparent and petty.

Yep – this is going to be fun to watch.

Moral of the story – take a permanent marker on any golf game with Trump.

Yes, I remember “Pussy Galore” (Honor Blackman) from Goldfinger. But there was one, played by Luciana Paluzzi, who didn’t succumb. I forget how that one came out.

The IMDB says she played the assassin Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.

He’s a cult leader.

He appeals to those who are nostalgic for their toddlerhood when life was easy and one could believe in a world magically controlled by wishful thinking.

If you ignore Republican gaslighting, it’s certainly easy to hear Trump’s inner infant engrossed in its own voice and making things up. I sometimes wonder if he’s in his second childhood or if he never grew out of his first one.

Also you have to marvel at the way he can strut and pose like he’s doing Mussolini impressions, and the reaction is, “This is great! What’s a mussolini?”

“They’re playing [for the title, along with Virtue’s son], and the story I’ve heard now three times is that Trump hit it in the water on 16. They see the ball go in the water. Virtue hits it on the green, his son hits it on the green, but when they get up there, because Trump is always way ahead in his own cart, the caddy is lining up Trump’s ball for a putt. Virtue’s kid says, ‘Mr. President, that’s my ball.’ The caddy says, ‘No, this is Mr. Trump’s ball. Your ball went in the water.’ And the kid, who’s 12 or 13 or whatever, goes, ‘Dad, that was a new ball. That’s my ball.’ And Virtue’s like, ‘I’ll buy you another ball.’ Trump sinks the putt on that hole and goes on to win, and that’s how he’s the club champion.”

Even the people who do real work for this administration are morons.