No way will this hurt their reputation among their rich asshole friends. If they somehow lost all their money, that would do the trick. But they’ll still be rich when they get out of their cushy white-collar prisons, so they’ll still have friends.
The wealthy are always aggrieved when they’re called out for doing…

Yeah let’s move on from the time Joe Biden was complicit in railroading a black woman who’d been sexually harassed, thereby paving the way for noted leftist Clarence Thomas to get a lifetime appointment to the most powerful court in the country. Definitely that is not something we should ever talk about again.…

Yeah, I’m pretty special.

It is so fantastic that her mystery rich man is...real-life Turtle from Entourage. Wow, what an enviable life she has!

I went to a small liberal arts college that’s sort of similar to SLC (I actually chose it over SLC), and I remember there being a huge amount of pressure to not snitch and just be cool whenever someone brought in a random itinerant hippie to live in the dorms. IDK if it’s like that at Sarah Lawrence, but the social…

Well, my point is more that when they got together, there was at least some trade-off for everything else. Now there isn’t even that. But I do buy that she was totally a scheming social climber, which makes her much less appealing as a character in what is basically a real-time historical fiction. I doubt that she…

lol are you a British royal genetics expert or something? 

I normally don’t shame people for their looks, especially related to aging, but William is literally one of the most privileged people on the planet so whatever.

One of the employees at my vet’s office used to joke about stealing my dog. It wasn’t cute. I’m glad this pup is back with his people.

Nope. BC.

I meant Doug, not Rob. Who can really tell the difference between the two.

I used to think that Canadians are super nice, laid-back people. Then one of them married into my family. She is the most socially terrifying, uptight person I’ve ever met, and I grew up in the deep south. She’s the only person who’s ever managed to make me have an anxiety attack. I now think the over-apologizing…

Size 16? Lizzo is not a 16. 

Joe Biden’s many personal and policy failures should make him ineligible to be president.

But people are too lazy to look into those things, and they still believe that the whitest man in the room is the best one to lead us, so they’ll say he’s our only chance to defeat Trump. What a world.

This is mean and I’m sure will be an unpopular opinion but...if it’s US military officers seeing something? It is definitely, actually fine. Do you know any naval officers? I do. My father was an officer, (an “engineer and Academy graduate” to paraphrase the article above). He is the stupidest, most gullible person I…

If I was as wealthy as Olivia Munn, I cannot imagine having enough time on my hands to care about what a blog that peaked 10 years ago has to say.

I don’t think you’re correct. And I don’t think that the feds would bother to bring charges against people who could credibly make this argument (if this argument were considered legally valid).

This country is not in the habit of prosecuting its leadership for breaking the law. When people talk about “our norms and institutions,” the norm of not sending politicians to jail is part of what they’re talking about. It doesn’t matter what Trump says. He could say “yeah, I did it” and the result would pretty much…

I doubt any of these people will get more than a relative slap on the wrist, regardless of strategy. We let rich whites get away with literal murder in this country.

But this is not a good legal defense strategy. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. That’s a very basic idea. No one is ever aware that they’ve committed a…

What you’ve said doesn’t refute my point at all. Mental illness is a disability, as is addiction (or “substance abuse,” as you say, which seems to imply that this type of behavior is voluntary. It is not.)

What are you getting at, exactly? Rich people generally have access to better things that the rest of us should…