Gahhhh I remember when this story first broke years ago and how in shock I was reading it. Still freaks me out just as much now.

If you refer to a black person as an “ape” there is no way in HELL you are not being racist. I’m sorry. This is not a case of “you misread my comment thooo.” It’s blatant racism.

We always did a big feast - pizza, sandwich platters, those 2 liter bottles you were talking about, etc. Then all the older reporters would lament about how you “used to be able to keep a bottle in the bottom drawer!”

How could I forget the pizza!?!? Of course there’s pizza! It’s a staple!

Ohhhh that makes sense. I figured a newsroom party was like a newsroom xmas party, where all the reporters get drunk.

Sidenote: why does the Washington Post have an election party?

What a good guy. I voted for Clinton (because I’m not a fucking idiot) but I always loved Bernie. I think that this optimism and this encouraging idea that we need to push forward for what is right, is exactly what many of us need right now.

You’re absolutely right. That was poor phrasing on my part but I agree with you.

Yes, thank you, Lauren!

Nice job, Bush. Maybe you should have stuck to those cute paintings instead of running for president and screwing over a lot of the country.

Do you think that will do anything to end his presidency? I doubt it but a girl can hope...

Thank you! I’ve got great friends now, a great fiance and wonderful people who support and believe me.

“bit more of a headache that they wanted to deal with”

I’m so sorry - I didn’t mean to bring it all back. But I think it is good for us as survivors of sexual assault and rape to know we’re not alone. So many people brush this off like “well did he really sexually assault someone? We don’t know that for a fact so what does it matter?”

That was one of the worst things, the morning after. Admittedly, I got pretty fucking drunk that night, but when I woke up, I immediately burst into tears. My fiance had to come and rub my head as I scream-cried about how this country doesn’t give a flying shit about my sexual assault or the sexual assaults of women…

When I was 18 years old I had a ton of money saved up from working summers before college. My friends and I decided to do a trip to england on our own money and stay with my family’s friends there.

HAH!!!

I’ve been thinking that too. I find myself accidentally looking for Trump stickers on the backs of cars when I drive down the highway.

Would love to see what you wrote. I’m a journalist now and hoo boy... I’m trying to think of exactly how I’m going to deal with these next four years, or at least the part of those years that I’m still a journo 

On the plus side, there’s this: NJ Weedman