It’s so horrible the way abusive relationships cause trauma not only during the relationship, but also by haunting you for years. Overcoming emotional hurdles is hard enough without the abuser literally haunting you, coming after your reputation, money, mental health, career, on and on.

The NRO mission patches are all tongue-in-cheek and absurd, Since the actual payloads are classified they can’t have a mission patch that has anything to do with it, so you get art like that, and demons, dragons, and basically whatever the art department felt like cooking up. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu…

You’re telling me a group of departments who thought this was a good logo have a problem when it comes to sexual harassment?

Five accusers? Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, Ms. Lutkin. How many are not even speaking up about it?

Can we reboot Wisdom of the Crowd as a one-off movie event where a guy launches a similar project but is immediately shut down after getting an innocent man shot because his beard was similar to a dude who robbed a bank three states over?

I guarantee you that everyone involved with the show was more astonished that the pilot was ever picked up than that it was canceled.

You’re projecting. It’s not that at all.

The whole show is reaping what it sowed.

We are on a liberal website where many people use this topic to say something to the effect of “well, *nobody* should be in the military anyways, so this is actually a good thing!” I was seeking to prematurely defuse that particular kind of comment, because I want people to focus on the fact that a good thing has…

“YAY! A BUNCH OF WOMEN WERE ASSAULTED BY A GUY WE DON’T LIKE!!!”

What’s next? Honoring Jews and referring to all the diamonds they’ve sold over the years? Honoring African Americans and saying that it’s awesome that Aunt Jemima makes great pancake syrup? I mean, really, that’s where we are now.

You can also recognize the military actually is pretty great and has fuck all to do with the man or woman in charge. When you are in the military, you don’t think about how proud the president is of you, you care about your buddies to the left and the right of you.

I found this helpful:

Bannon consciously crafted Trump as the successor to Jackson as a “man of the people”. I’m pretty sure he was the inspiration for that portrait being installed in a central place in the Oval Office. Yes the analogy is tortured to death (Jackson was whatever else a man who was scrupulous about his personal honor as he…

As an aside, I can’t figure out whether the Andrew Jackson portrait is deliberate, accidental, or someone in the White House brilliantly trolling Trump. And the more I think about it, the deeper down the rabbit hole I go.

The risk manager in me looks at a scenario like what Franken is going through now and recoils at how difficult it would be to protect yourself from something like this. The glib and easy answer is “Don’t grope anyone”, but the reality is that one person’s incidental contact is another person’s grope. If your hand…

Strom Thurmond was a long serving politician (and racist fuck) who had an AA love child that was hidden for decades. He fucked a then 16-year old housekeeper like he was some kind of plantation master doing whatever he wanted.

I suggest everyone go back and view Animal House and many of the comedies of the past 5o years and see how women are portrayed, how much groping goes on, and how many laughs happen at the expense of a woman’s dignity. Andrew Dice Clay, anyone?

It should be enough. As long as no new incidents (as in, haven’t even happened yet) come forward, and nothing from his past comes out worse than what already has, it should be enough.