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I asked this on groupthink a few days ago, but the mainpage gets more traffic, so:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller changed my life as a 16 year old, it’s one of those books that people either love or hate.

Isn’t there an already good episode of Drunk History about this?

Like I said in another comment, I really think it’s probable that she was a victim of some kind of serious abuse as a child.

Replied to the wrong comment, my mistake.

Thanks for the link. I had missed some things.

Stop building strawmen and putting words in my mouth, thanks.

IIRC, didn’t Jackie change her mind and not want the story to go to print at one point?

Some people farther on in the comments, with more legal knowledge than me, have made the point that to win this kind of case, the legal team needs to take a scorched earth policy.

A reporter is not a friend, not a confidante, not an advocate. A reporter’s job is to fact check. An editor’s job is to make sure that the fact checking is done, even if just to CYOA.

How about I make this clearer:

Nah, I was raped in college by a “friend” who was angry that I wasn’t obligated to fuck him for treating me like a human being.

No, it means that even IF Jackie’s story was completely false, and it might have been, it does not prove that she has never been victimized or assaulted.

From the WaPo:

There’s some really neat parallels between “The Answer” and “Could’ve Been Great” — it seems like Peridot and Ruby have more in common than anyone else. (the “Welcome to Earth” call back was also great).

What’s happening in Denmark is frightening and I just don’t understand at fucking all.

Yeah, no. I live in Sweden, I’m an American expat and I have B1/B2 fluency (I’m a terrible speller) in Swedish. I also lived in Marburg for a year, so I have _some_ idea of the system you guys have (Have you dropped the special rules for Turkish “guest workers” and their descendants yet???). Scandinavia isn’t even…

Cheers!

Links please?