What Do You Call Less Than Half-Assed?

I HAD TO RUN IT BACK, BECAUSE I WAS certain I hadn’t heard what I’d heard. It was a weekday after another weekend of mass shootings, which itself had followed a week that contained a mass shooting in an elementary school. It was a time for deep reflection and decisive action, unless you’re an American lawmaker: South Dakota senator John Thune was asked the sensible and relevant question “Why do people even need AR-15’s?”

“They are a sporting rifle,” he said with a sigh, unable to make eye contact with his interviewer. He continued. “And in my state they use them