I read Gatsby first in 8th grade and adored it. I’m sure I’ve gotten more out of it since then, but I fell in love at a young age.

I suspect...and this might be a wild idea...that some kids love classics. And some kids love physics. And some kids love wall ball, or whatever they do in gym these days. Not all students…

I’d shift the terminology around a bit in that what you describe is an eminently conservative (in the old-school sense) disposition, which is why you vote for Democrats. As a (now solidly) Democrat-voting conservative myself, I think what you describe is the overriding impulse; sure I don’t like cruelty and want…

The sole exception is George H. Bush who did the unthinkable thing and raised taxes.

The article also conveniently leaves out that she was lying to and stealing from the charity she worked for, not just being late on payments.

She has also told the truth about thousands of things.

And that’s why HR departments typically have a multitude of tactics to screen out candidates who may have lied on their resume, and it’s grounds for rescinding an offer and even dismissal from a job! And it’s actually a pretty big deal if you get caught, despite the fact that you think it’s nbd because lots of people…

This isn’t lying on a resume. She was not applying for a job. She was proactively telling people she assisted Joe Biden in writing his signature piece of legislation, inflating and even fabricating her own importance, and had a high-ranking position at his office to ingratiate herself to them and gain financial favors…

That is not normal behavior. If you think it is, well, I can imagine you’ve been fired from a lot of jobs. 

You should read a few of the articles about the contradictions - that’s not exactly how it happened. It’s super confusing unless you really dive into it, but what she appeared to tell people back in 1993 was that she was experiencing sexual harassment, but didn’t even specify that it was Biden. Also, Biden would have…

You do have to do a lot of mental gymnastics if your goal is to try and develop a rational framework for buttressing their accusation.

It’s a very long walk from sorting Biden’s mail to helping him write the Violence Against Women Act. And she wasn’t just padding her resume a little bit, she was blatantly lying about it without prompting to her landlords for the purposes of manipulating them. That is not normal behavior, no matter how determined you…

Writing positive articles about Putin is downright creepy. 

Actually, a lot of us felt sorry for Monica Lewinsky at the time. My anger was directed at Clinton’s stupidity of handing himself over to the right wing nuts and at Linda Tripp for pretending to be Lewinsky’s friend while she was busy selling her out. 

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I don’t think people realize how truly stacked the system is against the criminally accused. We just see people like Weinstein and Bill Cosby on TV who can afford to throws gobs at money at a defense and don’t realize they’re the exception not the rule. I can’t count the number…

Of course Biden’s integrity is dubious, but that doesn’t change the fact that hers is as well. When two people you have good reason to mistrust disagree on an allegation ... you have to go to other available facts.

I was coming here to write something similar. I understand the sentiment of “believe all women,” but always found it naive, as with so many trending hashtags/social media movements....You can’t just make unverified/uncorroborated accusations about sexual assault or any other crime for that matter...and sexual crimes…

Honestly, the thing I found most interesting about the Politico article was not that information about her bankruptcy and landlords but that her own retelling of her role at Joe Biden’s office seemed to be inflating with each person she told the tale to:

I’m going to get a lot of hate for saying this but I think the reason a lot of people are bending over backwards to believe Ms. Reade is because the right has effectively weaponize “Believe women” to paint progressives as hypocrites and I think most people could have seen that coming a mile away. Unfortunately, issues…

This is exactly right. You don’t need to be perfect to credibly allege that you were the victim of a crime, but it is also completely appropriate to be more skeptical of the allegations of someone with a long history of lying and exaggerating to get things from other people. This article is so disingenuous, and I…