Yeah, I said this elsewhere, but the University’s code of conduct specifies “affirmative consent” is required during sex—an explicit yes rather than the absence of a no. That’s a different definition of consent than the police were working with, so it’s essentially irrelevant that the police already investigated the…

The thing that a lot of posters seem to be missing is that the University’s code of conduct has an “affirmative consent” requirement, meaning any sexual encounter that doesn’t include an explicit “Yes” can be considered rape. Minnesota law, on the other hand, doesn’t—in any sexual encounter, the victim has to prove…

I did—but the article is blatantly wrong about a lot of shit that’s obvious to anybody who actually followed the election. Take the first sentence: “Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.” But the polls in Iowa were tighter than the ones in Michigan! Suggesting that you ignore the polls to focus on…

That’s the thing, though—the campaign essentially did follow the Obama playbook. That data and analytics stuff mentioned above? That’s all stuff that was pioneered and refined on the two Obama campaigns. Clinton’s ground game was based on the techniques that Obama developed. But they’re different candidates that…

Yeah, some of the concerns mentioned in the story were legit, but plenty of this is Monday morning quarterbacking. Like, volunteers were told to go to Iowa instead of Michigan? That’s because until literally three days before the race, all the polling—both internal and external—showed Clinton with a comfortable lead…

Yeah, my boyfriend and I used to watch this show when it first came on, but had to stop because the sheer intensity of how much they disliked each other? didn’t respect each other? was so palpable it sucked all the fun out of it. I’m zero percent surprised to hear this, and continuing to film the show sounds like a…

Yeah, I don’t think this is particularly complicated to understand. In the immediate aftermath of the election, Ellison surfaced as the front-runner for DNC chair, so now he’s being treated as the presumptive front-runner. This kind of shit would come up with any relative-unknown who is suddenly catapulted to relative…

Yeah, let she who hasn’t slept with a dumb ex she’d rather have assassinated cast the first stone here.

It’s actually a really smart move for her. It’s free P.R. for the Green Party, plus she gets credit for lefty solidarity (something the Greens get criticized for a lot). She knows the Dems can’t request it without undermining faith in the electoral process further, so she’s saving them from that. There’s almost zero…

The psychiatric definitions of “delusion” and “irrational” are quite a bit different from the colloquial ones, but good try.

I’m pretty sure that the Secret Service can’t dictate anything; they have to accommodate the family’s requests. But most presidential families don’t get into this without a deep understanding of what kind of risks they’re taking, and want to take whatever steps they can to protect themselves. It doesn’t seem like the…

Definitely unprecedented for the modern era, as far as I know. Might have happened 100+ years ago when being president wasn’t so strenuous and they could get more time away.

As someone who has struggled with my own mental health, I strongly disagree. I had a front-row seat to a close friend’s onset of schizophrenia, and he suffered for months before going through a complete breakdown—despite displaying extremely obvious symptoms—because none of us had been trained to recognize what the…

Where did I make a diagnosis? I said she’s been demonstrating signs consistent with it. I didn’t say she has it (and in fact went out of my way to imply that there were other possibilities).

She’s been demonstrating signs consistent with unmedicated schizophrenia (or a related illness) for a while now, which, yeah, actually can make you a neo-Nazi as it causes delusions and irrational thinking. I don’t know if that’s what caused her to go down this particular path, but the idea that it’s impossible is a…

For what it’s worth, it’s been pretty clear that she’s been seriously mentally ill for a while now and it’s going untreated. (A lot of her behavior over the past five years is consistent with unmedicated schizophrenia.) She was also a serious drug addict for a very long time, and for all I know, still is.

I honestly don’t think so, and I wish the media would stop “He’s just being Kanye”-ing him.

There were articles about his pro-Trump rant yesterday.

She’s a good actress; she just looks young for her age and thus hasn’t been given many roles where she can actually demonstrate it. I think they’ve kind of got her in a holding pattern where they’re just trying to keep her working in stuff that’s not 100 percent terrible until she ages up to getting Jennifer…

That article (which is an MSN article, not NYT—is that the one you meant to post?) said those were her super PAC’s internal polling numbers, not the campaign’s. We do know the campaign saw Michigan’s numbers tighten in the final stretch (down to one point doesn’t sound outrageous, given the final outcome), but it was…