Even more off-topic...Mozart originally wanted to marry Constanze’s sister, Aloysia Weber. He switched to Constanze after Aloysia wouldn’t have him. Aloysia was a professional soprano, and Mozart gave her the ultimate compliment/payback by writing an opera role specially for her...

It’s valid to look at why and how the hell this happened, so procedural changes can be made to prevent it happening again.

Yeah, he just sewed up the rapey frat boy demographic.

He would try his shit on Angela Merkel and she would take him DOWN. Almost, but not quite, worth the price of his election.

For history geeks I can also recommend Lying about Hitler, by Richard J. Evans. He was one of Lipstadt’s expert witnesses for the trial. Under British law at the time, it was a complete defence against libel to prove you were telling the truth. So Lipstadt’s defence hired Evans to check a representative sample of…

Well, there’s a scary psychotic clown running for President, so...

Not following your own policies does not seem to be the solution to this problem...

She’s made a police report, so this elected representative is under police investigation for a serious crime. It seems reasonable that he be suspended until that criminal investigation is complete. What would the House be doing if the charge was armed robbery?

Certainly not. They should now direct their attention to the university and pressure them to get their shit together on writing a decent code of conduct on sexual assault. The judge seems to have made the right decision in law.

How do they deal with a student who beats someone up? Why can’t that code be adopted to apply to sexual assault also?

This is Brown’s fault, not the judge. They didn’t have a policy to deal with accusations of sexual assault? In 2014? The fuck? And they tried to sort that out by developing a policy and applying it retroactively? Team no one here. My university (in Australia) has a comprehensive Student Code of Conduct that…

I suppose it’s an extension on the question of drawn child pornography. It’s illegal in a lot of places and most people (myself included) would still find it abhorrent. Actual child porn is banned because it harms real children. Drawn child porn harms no one, and those who support it, argue that it allows…

Holding on to them only helps him because it continues to drive the narrative everyone is out to get him.

“What role she will play in her father’s campaign”? The campaign that’s been running since the Black Death was big and is now, mercifully, down to its final weeks? That campaign??

Stephen King is vehemently anti-Trump. I sincerely hope this is his next blockbuster. It could be a series, a la the Dark Tower. Except Trump is no Man In Black. He’s more like the malfunctioning Shardik robot that’s gone crazy and has a head full of parasites.

The IRS has already said they’re not stopping him releasing his tax returns. Whether or not he’s being audited is irrelevant. Everyone already knows he’s lying about that.

But Trump is harming himself by refusing to release his full tax returns. I’ve seen all kinds of wild speculation. Is his net worth much less than he’s claimed? Has he been cheating on his taxes? Laundering money? In the pay of foreign governments? Making large donations to pro-pedophilia organisations? Paying…

Well, he’s stupid enough to do it and think it would show that he’s “legitimately” paying no taxes, but would his ego allow him to show that he’d lost that much money in a single year? That would undermine his “businessman” cred.

Then you would be ensuring that you are practicing good consent and, in the unlikely event of being falsely accused of rape, would have evidence exonerating you! Everybody wins!

Abusers often offer their victims “special privileges”. True. But ewwwwww.