You don’t have more to say about her lawyer dropping her b/c she is a lying liar? What about all those court cases that are being reviewed b/c she lied under oath?

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…

The Politico article could have been written about my sister. She did exactly the kinds of things attributed to Tara Reade. She was always in financial trouble, always asking for help, and more than willing to walk away and leave others holding the bag. She made up detailed stories about her life — like how she had to…

I’m guessing that some hero ran up to his car and pulled him out of the driver seat at speed. The nearby people were furious with how his racing could have killed people, not dozens or whatever, but still. Police arrived and tried to figure out how fast the car was going by having the hero run up and down the block…

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.

The “aggrieved acquaintances” were but a handful of former landlords. The damning behavior behind the trumpeted claim of dishonesty and wrongdoing? Reade allegedly struggled to pay her rent, and sometimes she pleaded for her landlords’ sympathy.

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

The California Condor would be extinct if not for zoos. Instead, it has a growing wild population.

I understand what you mean about zoos being problematic, especially since they were started in an era of white supremacy/imperialism and haven’t always been great about giving animals good environments. But they do do a really important job in keeping species alive that we humans may otherwise have killed off into…

I’m with you, except that they were incredibly profitable. They just don’t have the cash because they gave it to all their investors in dividends or more often, they did stock buybacks. So they made money, gave it away to their investors, and that’s the reason they need a bailout? I have trouble with that, and I’m…

Yeah, it might actually take the virus to finally make his base crumble, at least around it’s edges. I don’t think anything can really break his base, but it’s completely possible to peel off the edges of it, and he literally can’t afford to lose any of his base.

What’s also so annoying is that your test results only pertain to the moment you took the test. I have to get tested every seven days for the next month (the joys of working with both positive and negative patients) and I pretty much act like I’m radioactive and that everyone is similarly contagious. Every negative I…

Seriously. I don’t begrudge the White House, Congress, etc. their ability to conduct regular testing. I think that’s an important and necessary thing for government to do in the middle of a pandemic, even when we’re short of tests. But testing themselves constantly while actively downplaying the importance of…

Reporters need to hammer Trump and everyone in his administration about the contradiction of his position on testing for the country (he doesn’t think it’s so important) and the fact that anytime someone close to the White House is suspected of having or actually has Covid-19 they make sure to tell us how often Trump,…

I miss Deadspin writers who could, y’know........write.

500 Days of Kristin was an unfortunate casualty of a deep internet injustice and deserves its full run.

Her lawyer is a former Sputnik employee, ffs:

Her next appearance will be on Maury, I’m sure.

omfg...just when you thought “what else does this story need -- it’s already riddled with contradictions” ASSOCIATED PRESS comes thru with this

The USA will most definitely not eradicate the virus, however quite a few countries are on the way to doing that.  Which raises an interesting dilemma for those countries with regards to future travel and tourism.  I just hope those of you in the US take a good hard look at the way this was handled compared to other…