I don’t think the choice to do blackface is defensible, and I’m not interested in discussing the degree to which we should grade historical bad acts on a curve (assuming there would even be that much of a curve—if any at all—in Fallon’s case). What I find a little intellectually dishonest, however, is the idea that…

I am a sexual assault survivor. I publicly came forward with my own story in 1990 and have outed a few different abusers and assaulters since then, each in a slightly different way with varying results.

That’s a strawman, though, because the Politico article does not make the claim that because she had financial difficulty she must be lying about being sexual assaulted. It is about the fact that she seems to have a pattern of lying for personal gain, including lying about her position while working for Joe Biden.…

False reports of sexual assault are pretty rare in the regular world, but they aren’t particularly rare in politics—there’s such an obvious incentive to falsify claims in politics that just doesn’t really exist outside of it. Pete Buttigieg was hit with a fake rape claim last year. At least one of the allegations…

Coming on the heels of Jane Roe’s deathbed confession, it does make you wonder....Lots and lots of people believed what she said for years and years. And then it all turns out to be a lie based on monetary gain.

I’m going to get a lot of hate for saying this but I think the reason a lot of people are bending over backwards to believe Ms. Reade is because the right has effectively weaponize “Believe women” to paint progressives as hypocrites and I think most people could have seen that coming a mile away. Unfortunately, issues…

This is exactly right. You don’t need to be perfect to credibly allege that you were the victim of a crime, but it is also completely appropriate to be more skeptical of the allegations of someone with a long history of lying and exaggerating to get things from other people. This article is so disingenuous, and I…

I don’t know. We seem to be bending over backwards to find reasons why we should believe Tara Reade. Mostly centered on “believe women,” a concept I support. And I know that there’s a lot about how “real victims” behave and how damaging that is—so we shouldn’t factor in her character, which is that she’s a lifelong…

I honestly cannot figure out why Jezebel keeps defending this lady. The best investigative journalists have followed up and can’t confirm her story. The Obama campaign vetted Biden thoroughly before making him the VP. They wouldn’t miss this if it was real. Everything about her allegations feel wrong about what people…

I’m not sure this article really tracks with what Politico was doing. To go public with a sexual assault case against a powerful individual requires one of two things: evidence, or a leap of faith on behalf of the public.

“Never having struggled, never having been dishonest, and never having spoken positively of an alleged abuser.”

I think Green’s attitude about the whole thing is really nice. It seems like a genuine sentiment too. But even if you don’t think it’s genuine and that he’s not actually this mature or understanding, at a minimum you have to appreciate that this is a guy who understands that co-parenting is probably easier when one…

I have said this before, this whole thing seems to be in favour of the Republicans.

I’m curious - how else is someone supposed to respond when accused of something they didn’t do, other than essentially call the accuser a liar? (words he did not use) 

Many still unfairly hold Sanders accountable for Clinton’s defeat in 2016, and his tendency to avoid certain niceties—singing the Democratic party’s praises, buttering up the press—made him an abrasive figure for some.

To be perfectly honest, I probably work more hours now from home than I did 6 months ago. As a programmer, I can pretty much work from anywhere. The flexibility to attack things as I see fit and not be interrupted by random junk has made me MUCH more productive the last two weeks. Happier too!

I have said (to anyone who would listen) that spending hours a day pushing workers into giant office spaces in the downtown core of cities makes very little sense for a multitude of reasons. In Toronto, for example, the infrastructure for quick transit (subway, bus, go train etc) has never been able to keep pace with…

Re: Hannah B.

Witcher is good

that’s fair.