Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

relatively unrough to be a gay

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius),

dunno what kind of guys you're seeing

Harrumph

So Singer looks done.

https://deadline.com/2017/12/bryan-singer-sued-sexual-assault-underage-boy-yacht-2003-1202222501/

Did Takei really blame his accusation on Russian internetbots?

was just going to post that. interesting. Is his attorney's statement about the Egan case true? "The attorney behind this lawsuit is the same lawyer who represented Michael Egan, the convicted felon who sued Bryan Singer in 2014. In the end, Egan was forced to dismiss that case once the facts came out and his story completely fell apart. Egan and his attorneys then found themselves as defendants in a malicious prosecution action brought by some of the individuals who Egan previously sued. In an apology to those individuals, Egan’s attorney acknowledged the claims that had been filed were ‘untrue and provably false.’ "

Did Takei really blame his accusation on Russian internetbots?

Yes.

takei accusation withered up and disappeared rather quickly

nothing to fire him from?

having only one accuser seems to help

I'm literally struggling mightily with motivation now for this reason. not with people I already know and care about, but complete strangers, I almost feel shocked and amazed when I have an interaction with one that isn't a complete shitbag. which I mean...is a gross overexaggeration but this administration has me like screening everybody I interact with much harder.

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, December 7, 2017 7:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And maybe all of us should have been all along. Women always had to. This is a rough time to be a guy. Piper demands payment.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, December 7, 2017 9:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Welcome to being black in America! I hope you brought a dish; this picnic is potluck.

i brought hot dish

Why don't you put that down allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way over here

wait actually, is it tater tot hot dish because that jive can go up front next to the ribs

and i brought MN 'salad'*

*multicolored jello with bits of celery and tunafish in it; topping = cool whip

that goes there *points at trashcan*

tater tot hot dish is the premier hot dish imo

*goes over to trashcan*
*gets attacked by ravenous state fair hornets*

Lest we forget:

Explain hot dish

hot water cornbread in an aluminum pan over sterno or gtfo imo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Hotdish.jpg

This tots topping is blowing my mind.

― A Memorable Fancy (Abbott), Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:05 PM (seven years ago)

tater tot hot dish is king of all foods

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:09 PM (seven years ago)

This is probably enough of a digression in this thread:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/entertainment/melanie-martinez-timothy-heller-rape/index.html

Also, what exactly did Franks resign for? Has there been his promised press statement yet?

sounds like a weird cover story, but maybe they understand in pro-life land

New Dustin Hoffman Accuser Claims Harassment and Physical Violation on Broadway

Didn't know that Hoffman was bald

probably a bald wig if he was doing Death of a Salesman

Hm.

NEWS — TRENT FRANKS has resigned effective immediately, after he says his wife was admitted to the hospital in DC.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 8, 2017

@passantino
AP Exclusive: Former aide says GOP Rep. Trent Franks offered her $5 million to carry his child.

indecent proposal movie poster meme in 3, 2...

Just saw a lefty clickebate thing about Hillary supporters trying to place false allegations against Bernie.

#EveryDayIs2016

NEWS: @farenthold's harassment problem continued even AFTER Lauren Greene sued. @marianne_levine & @MaggieSeverns say he brought in his OWN investigators -- who, shockingly, cleared the office https://t.co/JctvUQtSWU

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) December 8, 2017

Lawyers for “Girls” writer Murray Miller — who has been accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau — had initially claimed that Perrineau had demanded money from Miller. Now his lawyers are apologizing, saying that claim was incorrect — and that she’d never requested damages.

In a statement to Variety, Donald Walerstein and Matthew Walerstein wrote, “In a previous statement to the media, we stated that Ms. Perrineau sought substantial monetary damages from our client Murray Miller. Neither Ms. Perrineau nor her attorney have ever made a demand for money. Our previous above statement was incorrect and the result of a good-faith misunderstanding.”

This seems like a reasonable time to post this:

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/yes-himtoo-how-would-you-react-if-a-man-you-know-and-1821028948

Multiple women say appeals court judge Alex Kozinski asked them to watch porn or subjected them to sexually inappropriate comments https://t.co/v7VbysRsxG

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 8, 2017

the result of a good-faith misunderstanding

says you

While I wish there was some tenable standard in place, this sort of house cleaning is long overdue.

twitter suggests that a lot of people knew about kozinski

what the fuck

"You don’t sleep if I say so. You don’t shit unless I say so. Do you understand?” https://t.co/b1WFPhbyBt

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 8, 2017

Gross

A judicial investigation ultimately found that Kozinski did not intend to allow the public to see the material, and that instead the judge and his son were careless in protecting a private server from being accessible on the Internet.

what

Welcome to being black in America! I hope you brought a dish; this picnic is potluck.

I would just like to say it is a privilege and an honor to get invited to the cookout and also ancestry.com said I'm 3% west african, here are some of my chili formulas

what's cooking? part 5: 2017-2027

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/12/08/the-one-best-idea-for-ending-sexual-harassment/?utm_term=.cfc9ce9fee00

Airlines: Sara Nelson | Television: Gretchen Carlson | Parenting: Joanna Goddard | Corporations: Debra Katz | Firefighting: Kishia Clemencia | Finance: Sallie Krawcheck | Domestic work: Ai-jen Poo | Congress: Jackie Speier | Clergy: Bethany Mandel | Military: Monica Medina | Hospitals: Jean Ross | Universities: Nancy Chi Cantalupo | Newsrooms: Jill Abramson | Jewish communities: Danya Ruttenberg | Churches: Boz Tchividjian | National security: Rosa Brooks

ideas solicited for each of the fields above

xpost I could also revive my oven-baked muffin pan latke scheme (no deep fryer required) if people are into tots and hash browns they will definitely be into my muffin pan latkes

http://deadline.com/2017/12/bryan-singer-teen-ex-lover-hollywood-sex-drugs-party-life-1202216936/

Hell of a URL

Really? I mean it’s not even a prime

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1202216936

btw Tomboto, Spacey's problem is an underage one, not a gay one

in my exp, adult gay men are mostly accepting of groping each other as we're all rutting horndogs (until age kills it)

Mario Batali:

https://ny.eater.com/2017/12/11/16759540/mario-batali-sexual-misconduct-allegations

We built these restaurants so that our guests could have fun and indulge, but I took that too far in my own behavior.

is it like mandatory that all of these basically pro-forma statements have to include at least one clangingly wrong-headed sentence just to keep things lively

That "I made this great contribution to the community/industry/culture, but I also did these bad things" formulation seems to show up in all these apologies

It's more like "these misdeeds are an unfortunate side effect of my quest for awesomeness"

Yes, exactly.