It should be noted again that 1)DSK's factual innocence has been established about as clearly as Casey Anthony's, and 2)whether or not DSK can be prosecuted the arguments that BHL has offered on behalf of his innocence have been staggeringly idiotic.
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I agree with Nocera: For the life of me, though, I can’t see what Vance did wrong. Quite the contrary. The woman alleged rape, for crying out loud, which was.
Col. Mustard -- in a post entitled "How do you say “Duke Lacrosse” in French? “Dominique Strauss-Kahn”" -- claims vindication for views he previously expressed with silence: If you noticed,.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c La Cage Aux Fools www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Watching people like BHL and Ben Stein invoke the droit de seigneur, I can...
He's a twelfth-rate "intellectual," but he's certainly a world-class asshole. Note in particular the contrast between these two arguments: I am troubled by a system of justice modestly termed “accusatory,”.
While I don't necessarily have an objection to Michael Moore offering to put up Julian Assange's bail per se, his statements about Assange's accusers absolutely cannot be defended. And he's.
Jill's take on the Assange is arrest is definitive. Of course, the priority put on his arrest is almost certainly political. But that doesn't make the charges invalid on their face -- Capone really was guilty of tax evasion -- and certainly have nothing to...
Shorter Verbatim Robert Stacy "Emmett Till had it coming" McCain: "The problem here is not some theoretical abstraction about the nature of consent. No, the much larger problem apparent in this.
I was busy enough this week to have missed Jezebel's bizarre decision to run a piece defending catcalling and public groping with a bunch of bullshit about how in France.
Shorter Ken Buck (as DA): Once you're previously consented to have sexual relations with someone, the consent then applies to future cases in which you didn't consent. The defense of Buck's failure to prosecute, I suppose, might be that he personally doesn't believe in this...
As Paul notes below, the Swiss government has decided that fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski will not be extradited to face justice. Defending an indefensible proposition inevitably requires some gross.
Shorter Roman Polanski: The only way to obtain justice for the woman I raped when she was a 13-year-old is to let me off for pleading guilty and then fleeing.