Legally speaking, and he is a lawyer, there can be a difference between “rape” which in some jurisdictions (including mine) is sexual intercourse done by forcible compulsion that is used to overpower earnest resistance and “non-consensual sex” which is sexual intercourse done without force and without physical…

There are many court cases (Papelino v. Albany College of Pharmacy being one) where the plaintiff has won for being expelled without proof of a breach of schools rules conduct. Schools either private or public are in a quasi contract. The plaintiff has a real case in future lost wages, soiled reputation and even more.…

It says they are not in dispute. If this is the fact pattern then I’m sorry but this stinks.

That’s not what the lawyer is saying. He is saying that, on the 4th episode, they had sex, went their separate ways and later “re-connected” and the woman slept with the man. He is asking why a woman who was raped would reach out to the rapist for a sleeping companion.

I’m sure on a college campus it means a lack of affirmative consent - ie, she never said no, but she never said yes, or maybe they were both drinking - and as well all know, college women have no responsibility for their persons once booze passes through her lips... Yale is gonna be toasted...

That Flint thing is ineffective, and demonstrates the failures of neoliberalism to improve people’s lives. I’m not going to belabor it here, because I recognize that you don’t want to hear it. But taking a tiny bit of that sweet foreign dictator/global bankster money to hand out bottled water is not addressing any of…

This is one blog. The corporate media are overwhelmingly biased toward Clinton, between the two Democrats. To claim that she doesn’t enjoy the advantage of being the establishment candidate in this regard is silly.

Clinton is left of Obama? Bring up policies that show she’s enacted that are to left of Obama, truth is you can’t. If Hillary won in 2008 there would be no Obamacare, even though that is highly flawed.

Fair enough.

Ah yes, intellectual honesty, such as claiming that Hillary was TOTES 100% just throwing shade, and we BernieBros just need to stop nitpicking “fake” controversies.

When you apologize over and over for mistakes you make after the damage is already done, people start to worry. They worried in 2008, with all of the racist dog-whistle tactics, even after she apologized. They worry now.

Satan vs. Santa? Give me a fucking break. The only person calling Clinton “satan” is you, over and over again sarcastically, in response to any criticism of her, no matter how concrete or valid. Can we not have adult conversations about the candidates?

Don’t waste your time, Mr. Know It All is at best a disingenuous Hillbot and at worst an outright troll. Check their post history to see the kind of stupid bullshit they constantly spew to see what I mean.

Don’t waste your time, Mr. Know It All is at best a disingenuous Hillbot and at worst an outright troll. Check their post history to see the kind of stupid bullshit they constantly spew to see what I mean.

Tell you what: when she comes up with an explanation for how that bullshit ever passed her lips on Friday, I’ll give all due consideration to her apology.

Again, there were plenty of nice things she could have stuck to regarding Nancy Reagan. No need to make shit up. People don’t really do that at funerals, do they?

Well, yes, but I also doubt anyone went to his funeral and praised him for all the good work he did in his life to stop child molesters.

I appreciate your perspective but the comment was so bizarre I don’t see a lot of explaination for it. If she was just spitballing, it was a weird place to go.

She went there for the same reason she went there in 2008, when she called Regean a transformative figure in politics, and meant that as a good thing. She wants to position herself as a saner Republican, which she is.

It’s good she apologized, but it wasn’t an off-the-cuff remark, it was prepared statement. How could she even go there? The only explaination that makes any sense is that she is already shifting to the right in preparation to the GE. She just mis-judged how loudly she would be called out on her pandering. She’s really…