Harris does have a chance, I agree. Americans love a tough-on-crime prosecutor. Not progressives, mind you, but progressives prefer symbolism over policy anyway, and she meets that mark well.

“I haven’t spent my life as a tough-on-crime prosecutor, I’ve never pretended to be a race I’m obviously not, I’m not a fan of Hugo Chavez, and I’m clearly handsomer and cooler than Joe Biden.”

Nor Jezebel! This is a great deal. Jez gets ad revenue, Olivia gets a free PR rep, the cycle of media trash supporting celebrity trash continues. 

Why feel sorry for her? Jezebel has decided to be her free-of-charge PR champion. She’s going to make bank off this.

There’s no controversy. Jezebel is just doing its part to make sure this girl gets super famous and wealthy.

It’s disgusting. Except when Kate Beckinsale does it. Or another woman. Point being, it’s really quite disgusting for a man to date a much younger woman and really quite empowering for a woman to date a much younger man. The way we “challenge” or “destroy” a double standard is to reverse it. That’s how justice works.

I love how committed this website is to making sure Olivia Jade becomes a famous person and makes tons of money off her mother’s attempt to use wealth to buy privilege. You guys are the best free PR a rich plutocrat could ask for.

Forgiveness is literally the cornerstone of almost all world faiths. The idea that each of us can be absolved (religiously or otherwise) of our sins (divine or otherwise) is the basis of basically all human hope. It’s certainly not a popular theory anymore, but for thousands of human years we’ve treated forgiveness as…

Ignorance of the law is not a defense. That’s a principle as old as law. “I didn’t know this was illegal” is a meaningless sentence.

Why are you helping this girl? Stop giving uber-wealthy people with no talent the free PR they want. Just stop it. 

You say that like you think the world is currently more fascist than when the actual fascists were in power.

I would. The maximum sentence is less than 81 months, so...

Police overcharge. Has nothing to do with this case - it’s their MO. Then they offer a plea deal where you plea guilty to one of the counts. It’s a trick used to scare people and your lawyer should (and will) know how to explain it to you.

He won’t for this - most likely is community service. He could for the fake anthrax, though. Don’t mail terroristic threats, kids.

I dunno. David Bowie slept with children and people still seem pretty big on him around here.

Periodic reminder that this website also defends David Bowie’s actually sleeping with 14 year olds. 

This could be said of literally every legal case ever that involves a victim of violence - that we ought not to discuss openly and publicly the possible innocence of a jailed person because it’s traumatic to the victim’s family. That, of course, is stupid.

This is disgusting. To think that a president would make decisions contrary to his advisers. I don’t know about you guys, but I for one demand that all presidents do what their advisers tell them to instead of what they think is right.

Then there’s no point in reaching out to them unless you’re just doing it for the LOLZ. If Samer thinks Bret is an irredeemable fascist right winger, then why even write him an email? If Bret is in the ‘you just can’t reason with them’ category, then the only goal of writing to him is to troll. And that’s childish.…

Great work. When you guys gonna stop giving Bowie the ol’ “ah who cares” treatment?