My great grandmother lived to be 99 years old and she did it by living harder than anyone else in the family. Her house had no indoor plumbing, and she’d haul water from the town reservoir every day. Her toilet was a bench with a hole in it set over a latrine that had been dug underneath the house. And this, dear…

A restaurant where I worked had a venison special on the menu for a little while because the chef’s friend had come back from a successful deer hunt with a surplus of meat. That’s the only kind of scenario by which I can imagine a Nebraskan having enough kangaroo meat on their hands to feed a cafeteria full of schoolch…

This gif is further evidence as to Evans being the superior Chris. When you’re on top, you’re secure enough to freely compliment the so-called competition because you know they pose no threat to your greatness.

Evans is the empirically superior Chris. It’s science. 

I’m on speaking terms with most of my exes. But sex is a passionate, immersive experience for me. If I’m breaking up up with somebody, I’ve already decided this is not a person I should immerse in.  

Well, those muscles are so close together.

Exactly.

And the rationale! I’ve been saying this for years. Why aren’t raccoons scared of us? We’re so much bigger than them!

Rehearsal was at the end of the video.

You’re assuming she could not refuse without retaliation.

If I’m attracted to you for your personality, then by the time we’re breaking up, any sexual desire I have for you is all gone. I can’t think of a single XILF, ie. ex I’d like to fuck.

I’m well aware that these policies don’t exist or apply in every workplace. But I’m also aware that one sector in which such policies are more common is governmental work. It doesn’t matter that we all know some dude who married his secretary. Presidents are held to higher standards and should be.

Seriously! I don’t think that guy ever watched the show.

Abuse of power is a question of professional ethics, so I don’t understand why you’d chose to debate it with private arena examples.

Abuse of power, in this case, is an ethical question. The fact of Lewinsky’s consent does not absolve Clinton’s ethical responsibility.

Feel free! Although it’s not an idea for which I can exactly claim credit. As much as I seem to be getting pounded for it here (hurray, dismiss button!), the notion that consent requires the option to say no without consequence is a very established concept.

Her original position was within the Office of the Chief of Staff.

I’m not debating someone who willfully misrepresents my position. I very plainly stated that the dynamics are similar not same, and I drew the similarity specifically on the grounds that both situations would involve a clear power imbalance which would grant one party the ability to punish the other, likely with…

I clearly specified heavily skewed power dynamics as part of the equation. Boss/employee. Inmate/guard. No such skewed power dynamic exists between you and the hypothetical dude you turned down for a date.

Yes, that is an accurate summation of my point.