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Slack.com slash DHQ. Great things are happening and everybody stinks. John McCain says he'll

support the tax bill. He was the reaction from the editor of The New York Times. Meanwhile,

some people are sick and to learn that NBC's Matt Lauer had a button installed on his office

desk that could lock the door so women staffers couldn't escape his grotesque sexual attacks.

It kind of reminds me of the time I had a chair installed that automatically strapped women

in so a gigantic fan could blow their clothes off. Of course, I was 12 years old and it was

just a fantasy and Lauer was actually locking women in his office and getting rapey on them

all being paid $20 million a year. But other than that, it was kind of similar. NBC scored

this major interview with the perpetrator.

Alright, you know, we started this week with a day in which everyone behaved badly.

Everyone behave badly and we're ending the week with a day in which everyone behave badly.

But things are going great. I was talking about morality and rule based morality versus

individual morality. I'm going to present by the end of the show, I'm going to present

a different vision of those two things, a way of looking at rule based and individualistic

reality. It's really different than the way most people think of them and we'll get to

that. But first we have to go through all the crappy things that people are doing and

all the great things that are resulting from it. I mean, this is the weirdest time imaginable.

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