I dunno. To me it seems like a couple of really drunk people engaged in sexual shenanigans, and she was blackout so she doesn’t remember. But as a blackout drunk, you don’t appear blackout, so he wouldn’t have known, and its certainly plausible that the rumors of her being the aggressor are correct, and that to me, it…

No, his daughter.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Right? It’s crazy how much tolerance we build up. Like, when my BAC is higher than my law school GPA.....

I definitely had a lot of guilt over being an alcoholic mom. My son was 11 when I got sober and that’s all he had ever known. But one thing sobriety (and the program, I am an AAer) has shown me is that showing my son the example of getting better, and getting healthy has been amazing. That itself is valuable too. And…

God yes. What makes us really good lawyers is also what makes us really good alcoholics!

I get that. I didn’t get sober until I was 41 because of that. And mad love to you. I don’t know you and it’s not for me to say if you have a problem with alcohol or not but it is progressive. And the question becomes, how far down the elevator do you want to go? You can get off at any floor. Me? I went so far down…

Honestly? I’d be concerned about the use of wine as a coping mechanism for life. The amount isn’t that concerning, it is the reason behind it that you should look at. Alcoholism is progressive and everyone of us in the AA rooms was once at that point. Self-medicating with alcohol is no bueno, no matter how much or…

When you need the wine because “life is hard” is when you need to find new coping mechanisms.

Yup. That was me. High powered lawyer by day, drowning in white wine by night (I always spilled red and it stained, so white it was). I didn’t get sober until I was 4 fucking 1.

YES! God yes. As a 42 year old alcoholic (sober, in recovery), I WAS, AM, that woman, and dear god the promotion of wine o’clock for EVERYTHING is such fucking problem. STOP IT ALREADY!

John Preston.

I dated a boy whom I called Mr. Big for this very reason. His real name was also John, funny enough. But I still call him “Big” in my head. (And I am long since over him. He was a toxic asshole.)

She is in recovery herself from an eating disorder. THAT adds a whole other wrinkle.

This.

Also not trying to victim blame here but, you go to a country that is known for kidnapping, torturing and murdering and then people are ...surprised? when someone gets kidnapped, tortured and murdered?

but their Political Editor Laurie Oakes decided to leak the audio, perhaps to see if he can get Trump to tweet the nuclear codes.

It was noted in some previous article here on Jez about this dude that she was court appointed and yes, professional admiration for her snark. (I’m a government lawyer myself, though not criminal defense).

She was court appointed. Like, what the hell else are you gonna argue? She had no clue where he was but still obligated to “defend” him, so that’s what she went with.

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