It’s not shortsighted, it’s prudent to worry more about your reputation than indulging in any behavior you see fit and hope people will understand. Your comparison to hanging out with adults of the opposite sex isn’t useful here, this isn’t the Victorian era so if people were to assume you were having an affair it…

Come now, spending time with children is not sharing a bed with them or being in the same bedroom even if you’re on the floor and they’re in the bed. You can know that what you’re doing is perfectly innocent yet understand that people will gossip and if that gossip gains traction, your goose will be cooked. One of his…

You’re missing my point entirely. My point is that this whole business is above our pay grade. We are an audience, he was an entertainer. If we liked his work, our duty was to pay the man what he asked to get a legal copy of it, but propping up his reputation for him is going far above and beyond.

No, this whole damned mess could have been avoided if Michael Jackson had been half as worried about his reputation as his fans were/are.

Your first point is absolutely right and the fact that testimony can be true no matter how few secondary details match up is what matters here.

That place is truly hallowed ground. I’ve visited the Vatican which is thousands of times bigger but as impressive as it was it didn’t overwhelm me like this museum.

Can’t blame her for having a thing against cat food though. That stuff reeks because of the fish oil they add. Growing up our cat only ate the same meat as we did or canned meat (like flakes of chicken,tuna...) even though it meant having to give her separate fish oil capsules and it was more expensive for this very…

A case could be made that the two other men in the back row as well as the one he’s touching are equally aghast.

According to my cousins, their parents started this behavior in the early seventies. I don’t know if some doc, book or show had a huge impact on a certain segment of society but I’ve come across a tiny but persistent number of people who came of age around then and will still occasionally do this. Though not anymore I…

I learned two acronyms today yours and #wcw. :-D

Yes, I can see this breeding some resentment against all things windy ;-)

Honestly? Considering that he’s been golfing for decades, puts his name on golf courses and doubtless must have met and thus closely observed the best golfers do their stuff, I kinda assumed he was at least good at his hobby. This guy has no rock bottom.

You consider both of them to be accused/ guilty of similarly terrible behavior?

I agree. People keep saying he used to be ‘better’. Nah! He was always a moron, but he was a moron with a script, giving interviews about stuff he cared about to people who didn’t want him to mess up and ruin their segment with a rich and famous guy. Now, no matter how much hand holding there is, he has to look smart…

I starred your comment because it’s true that it’s not just men who can’t respect boundaries. I’m sorry this happened to you even if it didn’t traumatize you, but keep in mind that except in rare instances, a woman who invades your space can only cause minimal problems if you want her to back off. Lots of women put up…

I know these people have been dead for thousands of years but shouldn’t opening someone’s grave be done with respect and not on television? These digs are necessary as they're relevant to understanding past culture but these men and women deserve better treatment as we do it.

I don’t know if this is the case here but sometimes being approved on one site carries out to others. That or the calls are coming from inside the house and  staff from other blogs or approved commenters from this blog are trolling. After seeing the Tomato troll crapping everywhere for years only to discover he was…

Then again, his name was Spiro Agnew not Steve Andrews. With the latter name I imagine he would have skated away like the others.

The difference is those people wanted to be hugged. No one is saying that we should all keep at arm’s length, this is an expansion of the concept of consent. Biden doubtless meets hundreds of people who want to hug on the campaign trail every day, he can leave the others alone.

Pretty much this. My boss is an affectionate person and he touches more than any employer I’ve ever had but the telling detail is that he has never touched a woman in a way he wouldn’t touch a man and he's not sneaky about it. He’ll do a two handed handshake, put his hand on the shoulder of someone he’s introducing or…