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From the way Bronx is going,

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:32:00 +0000

From the way Bronx is going, it could be a long-term saver, maybe half or more, but depending on how much they destroy US currency, may not matter.

And #MeToo here hasn't quite carried the liberal in to meet the libertine. Still waiting to catch up. In other words, it's still everyone's business, only no up side or quasi-empowerment :(

Bang bang.

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:06:08 +0000

In reply to Bang bang.

Bang bang.

So what are the rents like over there? Huh?

Maybe this is partly fallout from #MeToo as well,

Good point. I've seen a lot of the revisionist history of Monicagate, including the big essay by Miz Monica herself where she admits that many years of therapy have convinced her that she was a victim of sexual harassment. Rather than being a Christine Keeler-type-predator of a powerful man, empowered by confidence in her sexual appeal. (Don't get me wrong, I was beyond horrified by what happened to her, but if I was her, I'd be blaming the vast right wing conspiracy and Paula Jones, and to a lesser extent, Linda Tripp. Anyone would need therapy after what happened to her. But to me, had it been none of the public's business, as the case should have been, she wouldn't have suffered any more psychological damage than Judith Exner did.) All of it so turned me off that I didn't want to post on it.

As I said, it depresses me that people are making this political. I know Michael shares my proclivities that liberals be overall libertine as well and is upset that it seems that's changing. That's why I posted the poll link here.

Heck, I still haven't gotten over the gay libertine world of many of the friends of my youth succumbing to all wanting a big wedding, white picket fence and 2.5 children. I can't give up the idea that it's an overreaction to the AIDS crisis and they are still in mourning....

Well, mulligans are built

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:34:01 +0000

In reply to When evangelicals give

Well, mulligans are built into being an evangelical, but usually the part about "asking forgiveness" in a humble fashion is key to getting a 2nd and 3rd chance. Ain't seen none of that from the boaster-in-chief.
Here's how it's supposed to go:

When evangelicals give

rmrd0000 — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:59:43 +0000

In reply to I'm not surprised that people

When evangelicals give mulligans for infidelity and paying off a porn star, it makes them heathens like the rest of us.

I'm not surprised that people

Michael Maiello — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:16:14 +0000

In reply to I find this so depressing, so

I'm not surprised that people act like this. Tribalism is a helluva drug. The sad part is that the media participates, when it should be a mitigating institution.

Bang bang.

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:06:00 +0000

In reply to I find this so depressing, so

Bang bang.

But possibly depends on the meaning of the word "moral" is.

Also depends on the wording of the survey. A private moral failing would prevent public service? Wow. I don't even think a *public* immoral act prevents fulfilling public and professional duties. Maybe this is partly fallout from #MeToo as well, who knows. I always figgered when the revolution came I'd be first up against the wall. Just had hoped it'd be for something weightier than "yelled at children" or "forgot to recycle".

Also interesting that TehDonald feels his rightto NDA privacy extends to hispublic activity, though I thought we knew he required this over a year ago.

And seems d-i-v-o-r-c-e is trending among Republicans, though not clear if due to immorality and infidelity, or to protect family assets from legal penalties. Until debt do we part.

I understand people will get their sexual thrills one way or another, and while we like to think of a sex scene in a thriller at the movies as different from a XXX porn film as different from a sometimes lover on the side as different from paying a hooker, they're all different gradations of looking at Playboy. It more comes down to partbers' expectations/agreements/blind eyes than it does what some preacher says. I can't imagine Jesus caring, aside from how prostitutes are treated. But it's rather galling for the Jesus Party to swing from hyper-rigid "morality" to anything goes permissiveness in the case of their leader - I'm sure if their daughters were pulling tricks to get tickets for high-priced concerts or make it thru grad school, their concern for the finer points of morality might return. Of course taking money from Russians and trying to steal an election via gerrymandering and voter repression and thieving a Supreme Court pick thru highway robbery are just other examples of Ghouls Gone Wild.

I find this so depressing, so

artappraiser — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:15:45 +0000

In reply to Do You Have The Right to Secrets?

I find this so depressing, so of course I thought I should share the gloom with you :

Americans Are Partisan About Everything — Even Sex Scandals

By Perry Bacon Jr. and Dhrumil Mehta @ FiveThirtyEight.com

Views about President Trump’s relationship (or lack thereof) with adult film actress Stormy Daniels are split along partisan lines, according to a Huffington Post/YouGov survey released this week. Seventy percent of Democrats found credible Daniels’ account of an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006, while just 11 percent of Republicans said the same. And if Trump did have an affair with Daniels, 82 percent of Democrats said it would have been immoral, compared with 54 percent of Republicans.

Perhaps because Daniels is in the news, along with other alleged affairs by Trump, just 26 percent of Democrats (vs. 67 percent of Republicans) agreed that “an elected official who has committed an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.”

I’m recording this as exhibit No. 3,519,099 in our “partisanship is a helluva a drug” file. The two parties both seem to be reversing the views they had two decades ago — when a president of the other party was in the White House and faced accusations of affairs and misconduct. [....]

If you ever decide to move to another country, please don't forget to shoot me an email, I might follow.

We may get our fix soon ...

barefooted — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:28:08 +0000

In reply to Schadenfreude is a helluva

We may get our fix soon ...

Schadenfreude is a helluva

Michael Maiello — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:27:25 +0000

In reply to If this whole thing was just

Schadenfreude is a helluva drug.

All's fair in celebrity

Michael Maiello — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:26:19 +0000

In reply to Strikes me after reading the

All's fair in celebrity gossip land, that's the thing Michael. That's how that game is played. That's the profession they have chosen. They are the Greek pantheon of good bad and inbetween characters of our age, which serve as allegorical characters for people to discuss the human condition, that's the role of celebs in contemporary culture, we get to discuss their personal lives as examples.

Now I'm imagining Ledo telling the Crete press that she has a fresco of Zeus as a swan and she's going to go public with it, NDA be damned.