Pretty pathetic to not even consider the possibility that Depp, like many victims,m have lied to his doctor to cover up domestic abuse.

He created the Office, and scarcely any part of Anglophone humor has not felts its influence. Everytime you open your mouth to laugh at a cultural product of the last 20 years, you accept and acknowledge the talent of Ricky Gervais. 

An antichoice candidate was going to win in Omaha anyway. Bernie was trying to build a coalition, but the Puritans in our party seem happy to keep us in the perpetual minority. 

I didn’t see any evidence in the texts that the staffer was afraid of professional reprecussions. Also, we probably shouldn’t read to deeply into texts released by a spiteful ex, who could have curated them to make Hill seem like much more of a villain than she actually is.

I think we let the staffer make that call, not infer it from texts leaked by a spiteful ex. Much of this discussion robs the staffer of her agency to define her own experiences. 

Absent any claim that Hill used her power to harass, not really. If a power imbalance precludes the possibility of consent, then enthusiastic sex between employees of different rank is rape, no matter what those employees say. I doubt we want to live in such a world.

Political campaigns are intense. People work long, work late, and are often very emotionally involved in their work. Human beings have been known to hook up in these situations. Campaigns also, by their very nature, are not permanent jobs, and so sexual relationships in campaigns do not give rise to the fraught career…

She admitted it was wrong because she had to. A consensual relationship between two employees of different rank, as long as the boss is not some creepy monster, is not wrong, despite what the prudes and puritans say.

We’ve got a Know-Nothing!