It’s clearly the fault of the Shakespeare Center for putting on a Dickens play!

He hasn’t looked like that since 1976.

If by “Shakespeare” you mean “Dickens,” you are correct (unless I missed the joke, which could happen).

Those with even a hint of being genteel are finding that their propriety is no longer understood or wanted.

They are all stuck there. See what happened to Mona Charen at CPAC. That set - intellectual conservatives and/or moderate/rational conservatives did not believe it would come to this. They ultimately dismissed the Pat Buchanans of the 90s as “gone too far” once he really started to show his rabidity; they watched the…

Philistines!

Second Amendment discussions are so ill-informed. The reference to militias in the 18th century was relevant because we did not have a standing army, and militias would be the line of defense from threats to the stability of the new country.  Today we have a standing army to protect the country and its people; there…

She could have walked into his office stark naked, and it was still his responsibility - as the adult in the room, as the President of the United States, as her boss - to manage the situation. And what he did was use her and exploit her; that did not go both ways. They both behaved badly, but he had a much, much…

LOL - Bill Clinton has never, ever had a monogamous relationship.

She could do all that knowingly and still have been exploited.  She was used and exploited and sold down the river.  She did wrong - she believes that - but she was more wronged than wrong.

Ok, so what do you think about the lying and covering it up? Should that be dismissed because the underlying “sin” is a personal matter, or does the lying itself constitute its own problem?

If you only accept overt, explicit threats as evidence of a power imbalance sufficient to assign fault, then you’re turning a blind eye to reality.

Okay, fine; she consented.  But it makes no difference whatsoever.  He was the fully grown man, the leader, the husband, the head of the damn country.  It was on him not to let that happen.  Sorry, but I’m just not going to find that a 22-year-old intern and the leader of a country are  equally responsible for their…

She was what, 21, 22?  And he was “higher on the ladder”?  Are you kidding me?  He was the leader of the free world.  He wasn’t the shift supervisor, ffs.

Oh, I’m familiar with some of the team and the import of joining. And I’m certain it’s not the endgame. I’m wrestling with a bit of cynicism (one of my least favorite things, and rare for me), given the past year.

Large companies I’ve worked for dumped “human resources” (which I apparently incorrectly in my youth took to mean resources for employees) for the even more orwellian “human capital.”. Truly de-humanizing/components of the borg like the physical assets.

His is a malignant neglect, as opposed to the usual benign.

How did he know? By actually having the resources to follow the trail of breadcrumbs far enough to establish cause for surveillance/raids/subpoenas/etc.

Gods and Monsters is the best movie he was on, I think, but I have a soft spot for School Ties!

They won’t. They’ve seen how Trump gets away with bald-faced denial of reality and succeed, and they are all trying to emulate him.