UVA Rape, Uhh, "Rape"- WTF Is It Now?

The dark matter has now hit the whirling fan:

U-Va. fraternity to rebut claims of gang rape in Rolling Stone

A lawyer for the University of Virginia fraternity whose members were accused of a brutal gang rape said Friday that the organization will release a statement rebutting the claims printed in a Rolling Stone article about the incident. Several of the woman’s close friends and campus sex assault awareness advocates expressed doubt about the published account, and the magazine’s editors also began backing away from the story.

Officials close to the fraternity said that the statement will indicate that Phi Kappa Psi did not host a party on Sept. 28, 2012, the night that a university student named Jackie alleges she was invited to a date party, lured into an upstairs room and was then ambushed and gang-raped by seven men who were rushing the fraternity.

The officials also said that no members of the fraternity were employed at the university’s Aquatic Fitness Center during that time frame — a detail Jackie provided in her account to Rolling Stone and in interviews with The Washington Post — and that no member of the house matches the description detailed in the Rolling Stone account.

That is not bad enough? Strap in:

A group of Jackie’s close friends, who are sex assault awareness advocates at U-Va., said they believe something traumatic happened to Jackie but have come to doubt her account. They said details have changed over time, and they have not been able to verify key points of the story in recent days. A name of an alleged attacker that Jackie provided to them for the first time this week, for example, turned out to be similar to the name of a student who belongs to a different fraternity, and no one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

OK, and yike. The police are involved:

Capt. Gary Pleasants of the Charlottesville police department said that detectives are looking into the allegations at the request of the university but declined to comment on the status of that investigation.

And over at Rolling Stone, a note is appended to the front of the Erdely story:

TO OUR READERS:

Last month, Rolling Stone published a story titled "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, which described a brutal gang rape of a woman named Jackie at a University of Virginia fraternity house; the university's failure to respond to this alleged assault – and the school's troubling history of indifference to many other instances of alleged sexual assaults. The story generated worldwide headlines and much soul-searching at UVA. University president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and also to examine the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.

Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her. In the months Erdely spent reporting the story, Jackie neither said nor did anything that made Erdely, or Rolling Stone's editors and fact-checkers, question Jackie's credibility. Her friends and rape activists on campus strongly supported Jackie's account. She had spoken of the assault in campus forums. We reached out to both the local branch and the national leadership of the fraternity where Jackie said she was attacked. They responded that they couldn't confirm or deny her story but had concerns about the evidence. 

In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced. We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.

Will Dana
Managing Editor

What?!? The Rolling Stone says "our trust in her was misplaced"??? Golly, a traumatized young woman told us a story we never verified before publishing and now its her fault? RUFKM? Let's change that: Rolling Stone to Jackie - You 'effed up - you trusted us. And yes, I am blaming the Rolling Stone; there is widespread agreement that Jackie is a deeply troubled young woman and that something sent her into a tailspin in the fall of her first year at Virginia. She is free to tell any story she wants to her friends since she wasn't naming names, but the Rolling Stone is under no obligation to print it without careful scrutiny. 

From the WaPo:

Jackie told the Post that she had not intended to share her story widely until the Rolling Stone writer contacted her.

“If she had not come to me I probably would not have gone public about my rape,” said Jackie, who added that she had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and that she is now on a regimen of anti-depressants.

Earlier this week, Jackie revealed to friends for the first time the full name of her alleged attacker, a name she had never disclosed to anyone. But after looking into that person’s background, the group that had been among her closest supporters quickly began to raise suspicions about her account. The friends determined that the student that Jackie had named was not a member of Phi Kappa Psi and that other details about his background did not match up with information Jackie had disclosed earlier about her perpetrator.

The Post determined that the student Jackie named is not a member of Phi Kappa Psi and had never met her in person.

Erdely went shopping for a scandal and found one. Congrats. I hope she enjoyed the attention she got for her final byline.

AS AN ASIDE: In an earlier post I noted the "Listen, don't question" approach taken by assault victims support groups. Will this prompt a re-think?

Emily Renda, who is featured in the original RS story, spoke with the WaPo:

Renda said on Thursday that Jackie initially told her that she was attacked by five students at Phi Kappa Psi on Sept. 28, 2012. Renda said that she learned months later that Jackie had changed the number of attackers from five to seven.

“An advocate is not supposed to be an investigator, a judge or an adjudicator,” said Renda, a 2014 graduate who works for the university as a sexual violence awareness specialist. But as details emerge that cast doubt on Jackie’s account, Renda said, “I don’t even know what I believe at this point.”

“This feels like a betrayal of good advocacy if this is not true,” Renda said. “We teach people to believe the victims. We know there are false reports but those are extraordinarily low.”

Yet eyewitness testimony is routinely wobbly on details. By "false reports", I presume she means something more dramatic than changing the number of assailants from five to seven.

HINDSIGHT IS 20/20:

In July, Renda introduced Jackie to Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the Rolling Stone writer who was on assignment to write about sexual violence on college campuses. Overwhelmed from sitting through interviews with the writer, Jackie said she asked Erdely to be taken out of the article. She said Erdely refused and Jackie was told that the article would go forward regardless.

Jackie said she finally relented and agreed to participate on the condition that she be able to fact-check her parts in the story, which she said Erdely accepted. Erdely said in an e-mail message that she was not immediately available to comment Friday morning.

Shoulda coulda woulda.

SHE WAS CHARLOTTE SIMMONS:

Jackie said that she never wanted to go to U-Va. Graduating near the top of her high school senior class of 700, she had planned to attend Brown University. She dreamed of pursuing a career in medicine like her childhood hero, Patch Adams.

“I wanted to help people,” Jackie said.

She said she was disappointed when her family told her that they could not afford the Ivy League tuition. She enrolled at U-Va. without ever visiting the school.

She said that she performed well in course work that included rigorous pre-med classes in psychology, chemistry and religious anthropology. She said soon found a job as a lifeguard at a campus pool, where she said she met a charming junior who had dimples, blue eyes and dark curly hair.

STRANGE STRAWS IN THE WIND:

The WaPo closes with these puzzles:

Jackie contradicted an earlier interview, saying on Thursday that she did not know if her main attacker actually was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

“He never said he was in Phi Psi,” she said, while noting that she was positive that the date function and attack occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on Sept. 28, 2012. “I know it was Phi Psi because a year afterward my friend pointed out the building to me and said that’s where it happened.”

Tommy Reid, president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, said that all Greek organizations must register parties with the IFC. He said that the council’s records did not date back to the fall of 2012.

And a bit earlier:

Jackie’s former roommate, Rachel Soltis, said that she noticed emotional and physical changes to her friend during the fall semester of 2012, when the two shared a suite on campus.

“She was withdrawn, depressed and couldn’t wake up in the mornings,” said Soltis, who told the Post that she was convinced that Jackie was sexually assaulted. Soltis said that Jackie did not tell her about the alleged sexual assault until January 2013. Soltis said that she did not notice any apparent wounds on Jackie’s body at the time that might have indicated a brutal attack.

Ms. Soltis made the same point in the RS account, as noted by Erik Wemple. But that identification of Phi Kappa Psi house is absurdly murky and leaves open the possibility that Jackie never knew the location of the house where whatever happened happened.

Of course, the problem that the names don't match is hard to square.

Also problematic in the WaPo account (since updated) is this:

A name of an alleged attacker that Jackie provided to them for the first time this week, for example, turned out to be similar to the name of a student who belongs to a different fraternity, and no one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

Reached by phone, that man, a U-Va. graduate, said Friday that he did work at the Aquatic and Fitness Center and was familiar with Jackie’s name. He said, however, that he had never met Jackie in person and had never taken her on a date. He also said that he was not a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

An appended editor's note says this:

Clarification: An earlier version of this story did not properly attribute in one instance a statement about whether Jackie had met the man she named to friends as one of her attackers. The story has been updated.

Well, I remember the claim as being stronger the first time. And I remember wondering how anyone could convincingly demonstrate over the phone to the WaPo that he had not met Jackie two years ago. Here is how AllahPundit described his reading of the first version:

WaPo, doing the work that Rolling Stone wouldn’t, eventually tracked this guy down and decided to chat with him about it. Result: They concluded that not only isn’t this guy a member of the fraternity in question, he had never met Jackie. 

Now they are presenting his statement without any conclusion, and AllahP characterizes that as a walk-back. That jibes with my memory.

But why trust my memory when we have the glorious Web? Here is an earlier version that has not yet been updated. The stricken sentence:

The Post determined that the student Jackie named is not a member of Phi Kappa Psi and had never met her in person.

Yeah, that was a lot stronger. And not to be keeping hope alive, but if this is the guy, what we have is that Jackie mis-identified the frat because one of her friends (my guess - one of the three who bailled her out that night) pointed it out to her a year later. Was the WaPo guy in a frat house near Phi Kappa Psi? Has the WaPo even seen this guy (Skype?) to see how he matches with the physical description? Not to go all Columbo (or Bradley) here, but just asking.

Comments

[anonamom]

OOPS! Rolling Stone might have made a boo boo in the story re: UVa "gang rape."

Sorry "to anyone who may have been affected."

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-note-to-our-readers-20141205

Is there such a thing as an editor any more?

[anonamom]

So, will the settlement mean the end RS?

[anonamom]

NK, what is it your oh-so-wise daughter says?

"Boys are pigs.. and girls lie."

[Eric in Boise]

It's FBA* rape.

*Fake but accurate

[Thomas Collins]

The new Rolling Stone theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmFRvpwVSwo

[Eric in Boise]

The comments to the "Note to Our Readers" are great. RS being beaten like a rented mule. Threats/hopes of lawsuits flying thick and fast. Hilarity ensuing.

::munching popcorn::

[Iggy]

Jack Dunphy, former cop, at NRO, on the question of excessive force and the Garner arrest.

[Old Lurker]

Why should UVa not sue RS for the damage done?

[Iggy]

Comment at RS;

Jim Turner • 39 minutes ago

Well, at least you didn't turn it into a major story, with serious consequences before you checked it out.....

[peter]

The house of cards is coming down even faster than predicted. Hope that fraternity sues RS; could be some interesting discovery proceedings.

[daddy]

From TM's link:

A name of an alleged attacker that Jackie provided to them for the first time this week, for example, turned out to be similar to the name of a student who belongs to a different fraternity, and no one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

Reached by phone, that man, a U-Va. graduate, said Friday that he did work at the Aquatic Fitness Center and was familiar with Jackie’s name. He said, however, that he had never met Jackie in person and had never taken her on a date. He also confirmed that he was not a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

Sue, Sue, Sue, Sue, Sue.

[peter]

Interesting legal question: there is such a thing as commercial defamation, and there are of course, claims for defamation of an individual. Can a social club sue for defamation? None of the alleged gang rapists was named individually.

[Captain Hate]

I never thought I'd say this but I'm firmly on the side of Perky Katie's school.

Btw, zombie @ AoS has commented that this is part and parcel of teh Left's war on fraternities. She has noticed this multiple times at Berserkely.

[daddy]

Breaking on FOX: Boehner vows to Avoid Govt ShutSown.

I guess that partially answers my previous question of what behavior by an out of control President would cause Boehner and McConnell to actually defund those actions and/or shut down the Government, at least in regards to Blanket Amnesty for Illegals.

Now Pelosi is on TV saying she will only support something that comes out of the House that funds Government.

[anonamom]

If the frat doesn't sue them, I will, as the mother of sons.
I am tired to the bone of anybody with testicles being characterized as a criminal.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Statement from Phi Kappa Psi

[anonamom]

They've closed down the comments!

[Captain Hate]

#ProudToBeAHoo

My God, I feel overly clean...

[Old Lurker]

Peter, I think the University has suffered even more that the fraternity. Hell, you and I have both been injured.

[peter]

OL, let's call 1-800-I AM DEFAMED and hire an attorney! It's all so funny, because the last time I actually read Rolling Stone was probably about the same time I attended a Phi Kappa Psi rush for the free 3.2 beer-- forty pluls years ago

[narciso]

Well except UVA's president, Teresa Sullivan, is Red Squaw's partner in academic fraud.

[daddy]

Anonamon,

I can't get any of the comments to the "Note to Our Readers" to open except for ones from 13 days ago, and those ones are all "Punish The Fraternity and jail the Rapers."

Sue, Sue, Sue, Sue, Sue.

[Eric in Boise]

#WarOnFraternities

[daddy]

If I had any penny-loafers I'd wear 'em today in solidarity!

[Captain Hate]

Well except UVA's president, Teresa Sullivan, is Red Squaw's partner in academic fraud.

Ugh. Although in fairness [/Poppin] most university presidents are POS.

[peter]

daddy @ 2:34 HA!

[Iggy]

RS;

"Comments for this thread are now closed."

Isn't the fingers-in-the-ear strategy kinda what got them into this mess in the first place?

[Neo]

The Age of Obama is over ...

Longtime CNN political anchor Candy Crowley is leaving the network

LUN

[NKontheNovreboot]

"Erdely went shopping for a scandal and found one. Congrats. I hope she enjoyed the attention she got for her final byline."

'Final byline?' OH C'MON TOM! Erdely is just doing the regular accepted JournoProg work here . THE NARRATIVE. You yourself quoted the Oberlin Radio gal a couple of posts back-- FACTs/TRUTH DON'T MATTER... the point is to support gals and condemn boys if the gals have remorse. Remorse = Right to revenge, and that must be supported. Erdely will have many bylines to come. She'll be medicaid eligible, but she get bylines.

[Captain Hate]

daddy, just wear an orange and blue color scheme. And real blue, not that pussy color of Chapel Hole.

[clarice]

Beautiful job, TM. You could be the editor of everything.

[Old Lurker]

We don't put pennies in them anymore.

[NKontheNovreboot]

Anonomon-- indeed that is my daughter's coda. She sends Prog in-laws to the fainting couches when she articulates that in polite company.

She was 'victimzed' by a Prep School boy who she convinced to take her to prom... strictly emotional stuff, not sexually, he ignored her the whole Prom and hung out with his football and LAX buddies... and she learned a lesson from that. Better to be the victimizer than the victim, so she dumped a 2+ year boyfriend last Christmas--CHRISTMAS!!. Unlike most girls she's not a liar... she's a stone cold killer. I didn't say she learned a particularly good lesson from Prom.

[Neo]

She dreamed of pursuing a career in medicine like her childhood hero, Patch Adams.

I liked the first half of the movie, then it turned into a rerun of "Awakenings"

[daddy]

Dammitall,

I still can't get any of those Rolling Stone comments to come up any more recent than 11 days ago, and it looks like there's 7500 comments. SOBs@#$%

[Captain Hate]

I remember Gene Siskel taking great relish in slattering Patch Adams; not sure if Fat Egbert did likewise because I had him in the "ignore" mode back then.

[Iggy]

Yeah, I had a window open on the current comments daddy and when I refreshed it, they all disappeared and the 'comments closed' sign came on.

[Captain Hate]

They must be getting trucked by everybody if they closed comments. Very open minded imo.

[Iggy]

Charles C W Cooke on the suicide of the New Republic.

Think just how infantile and awful you have to be to cause someone as goofy as Noam Scheiber or Johnathon Chait to quit in protest.
Oh well, we do have a chain of Gawker inspired TNR cafes to look forward to.

[Captain Hate]

The Children of the Cornhole have been in a slow motion trainwreck ever since Marty Peretz warshed his hands of it.

[mike in houston]

OL maybe it was just a Fairfield County thing, but we always wore boat shoes (Top Siders) rather than penny loafers.

[Jeff Dobbs]

OL:
We don't put pennies in them anymore.

That middle word has a lot of patriarchaphallical letters in it.

[NKontheNovreboot]

When I got to DC in '79, the UVa/Duke/UK guys were all in TopSiders by then.

[Extraneus]

Zombie is a she?

[Old Lurker]

Mike, I understand that Topsiders are much safer on piles of broken glass so I understand.

[jimmyk]

Perky Katie's school.

Also Ted Kennedy's (Law). To their everlasting shame, they admitted him after Harvard wouldn't because of his cheating as an undergrad.

[NKontheNovreboot]

Topsiders-- with matching cloth belts and wristwatch bands.

[Old Lurker]

NK have you been snooping in my closet in Nantucket? With kakis and my blue blazer you have just nailed my cocktail party uniform.

[jimmyk]

I suspect the TNR thing is more a case of mercy killing, or jumping the shark. Hard to believe they would survive in this era anyway.

[jimmyk]

Proud to say I have never owned a pair of Top Siders. NTTAWT.

[Old Lurker]

Also Bobby Kennedy in Law '51 (my Dad's class).

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Ext; AliceH took me to task for outing her by posting that once but I don't think zombie has ever hid that or made an issue of it. Let me put it this way, if I know that it can't be too hard to discover.

[clarice]

Sheila Jackson Lee got her law degree from UVa, too..

[daddy]

It just struck me that we have all seen this Rolling Stone Reporter before.

On his first rebound from Annie Hall, Woody Allen (Alvie Singer) had a date and a one-night stand with her:

ROLLING STONE REPORTER
I think there are more people here to
see the Maharishi than there were to see
the Dylan concert. I covered the Dylan
concert ... which gave me chills.
Especially when he sang "She takes just
like a woman And she makes love just
like a woman Yes, she does And she aches
just like a woman But she breaks just
like a little girl."
(They move toward the aisles as
a guard holds up his hands to stop
them)
Up to that I guess the most charismatic
event I covered was Mick's Birthday when
the Stones played Madison Square Garden.

ALVY
(Laughing)
Man, that's great. That's just great.

REPORTER
You catch Dylan?

ALVY
(Coughing)
Me? No, no. I-I couldn't make it that
ni- My-my raccoon had hepatitis.

REPORTER
You have a raccoon?

ALVY
(Gesturing)
Tsch, a few.

REPORTER
The only word for this is trans-plendid.
It's trans-plendid.

ALVY
I can think of another word.

REPORTER
He's God! I mean, this man is God! He's
got millions of followers who would crawl
all the way across the world just to touch
the hem of his garment.

ALVY
Really? It must be a tremendous hem.

REPORTER
I'm a Rosicrucian myself.

ALVY
Are you?

REPORTER
Yeah.

ALVY
I can't get with any religion that
advertises in Popular Mechanics. Look-
(The Maharisbi, a small, chunky
man, walks out of the men's room,
huge bodyguards flanking him while
policemen bold back the crowds)
there's God coming outta the men's room.

REPORTER
It's unbelievably trans-plendid! I was
at the Stones concert in Altamount when
they killed that guy, remember?

ALVY
Yeah, were yuh? I was-I was at an Alice
Cooper thing where six people were rushed
to the hospital with bad vibes.

INT. ALVY'S BEDROOM-NIGHT

The reporter is sitting up in bed, lighted cigarette in her hand. Alvy, lying
next to her, rubs his eyes and puts on his eyeglasses.

REPORTER
(Looking down at him)
I hope you don't mind that I took so long
to finish.

ALVY
(Sighing)
Oh, no, no, don't be ... tsch ... don't
be silly. You know,
(Yawning)
I'm startin' it-I'm startin' to get some
feeling back in my jaw now.

REPORTER
Oh, sex with you is really a kafkaesque
experience.

ALVY
Oh, tsch, thank you. H'm.

REPORTER
I mean that as a compliment.

ALVY
(Making sounds)
I think-I think there's too much burden
placed on the orgasm, you know, to make
up for empty areas in life.

REPORTER
Who said that?

ALVY
(Rubbing his chin and shoulder)
Uh, oh, I don't know. It might have
been Leopold and Loeb.

For those who need to see the video, click here and scroll to the 01:30 minute mark: Actors who appeared in Annie Hall before they were famous

[Captain Hate]

Sheila Jackson Lee got her law degree from UVa, too..

#NotProudToBeAHoo

[Stephanie]

You know it's too bad that paid journalists don't have to have a license to practice and requirements for CE and all that stuff that hairdressers and massage therapists have to put up with. Be a shame if someone were to introduce legislation regulating their activities...

[Old Lurker]

Clarice your 3:15 is just mean.

[daddy]

They must be getting trucked by everybody if they closed comments. Very open minded imo.

They probably don't have enough guys on payroll to moderate 10,000 incoming "Phuck u Rolling Stone"e-comments.

[Extraneus]

Court: Tommy the chimp is not a person

A Florida group’s efforts to free a chimpanzee fell short on Thursday when the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court in Albany upheld a lower court’s decision that found that such animals aren’t entitled to basic legal rights.

“Needless to say, unlike human beings, chimpanzees cannot bear any legal duties, submit to societal responsibilities or be held legally accountable for their action,” Presiding Justice Karen Peters wrote in the seven-page decision.

“In our view, it is this incapability to bear any legal responsibilities and societal duties that renders it inappropriate to confer upon chimpanzees the legal rights — such as the fundamental right to liberty protected by the writ of habeas corpus — that have been afforded to human beings.”

[Iggy]

Matthew Continetti notes the increasing frequency that every lefty shibboleth is undergirded by fraud and myths, concluding comically and correctly that liberalism is a hoax.

[MarkO]

As I think I belabored before, she wrote this in such a fashion as to not be exposed to liability for defamation.

Writers have a reason for every word.

[clarice]

I want to make certain that no one ever mentions that dope's name without adding "B.A. Yale, J.D. UVa."

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce said the OED has added "hawt" and "mancrush" to their list of acceptable words. I feel more erudite already.

[NKontheNovreboot]

Daddy@3:15-- oh no you dinnint go there... oh no... OMG, you DID.

[anonamom]

Glad I got my comment in to them. I'm sure it will cause them to rethink their entire editorial process.

[narciso]

Beutler, who is Troy Mclure, in his ability to get it wrong, is the only prominent rat not to leave the SS Hughes

[narciso]

yes, but they do edit a major metropolitan newspaper.

[Beasts of England]

OL@3:04 wins the Internet!!

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

from TM's WaPo link -

. Phi Kappa Psi said it has been working with police to determine whether the account of a brutal rape at a party there was true.

Looks like Phi Kappa Psi is the one with sense & integrity.

[NKontheNovreboot]

BoE- OL heard that from 'a friend'.... of course.

[Jeff Dobbs]

OL:
NK have you been snooping in my closet in Nantucket?

It's the Internet of Things. The way that house is wired, we can see everything.

[Beasts of England]

Gary Trudeau doesn't get tapped for Skull and spends his cartoon career crapping on the Bushes; Jann Wenner doesn't get tapped in the ass by an entire fraternity and spends his entire career crapping on fraternities.

Too subtle?

[daddy]

NK,

Shelley Duvall was transplendent in that roll:)

UVA has a transplendent Law-School.

Fry took a transplendent Bimmer this morning.

Rolling Stone cutting off their comment section is transplendent Journalism.

transplendent,transplendent,transplendent!

[peter]

U.Va. was under a consent decree and had to take affirmative action students NO MATTER WHAT. Sheila Jackson Lee would hand in Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis,or its equivalent, each semester and the prof would pass her NO MATTER WHAT. What's a University to do? risk having the federal race police come down on them and be branded RACIST. Hence Sheila Jackson Lee.

The Teddy Kennedy admission, on the other hand was indefensible, and so was his behavior in Charlottesville, if you will recall some old Safire columns.

[Old Lurker]

Gotta love these tech people:

"The latest document dump in the Sony hack has exposed thousands of the company's passwords for various accounts, reports BuzzFeed. The reason this came to light so quickly? The passwords were kept in a file directory called "Password." Among them are hundreds of usernames and passwords for movies' social accounts on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, but also plenty of clearly labeled passwords for everything from Amazon to Fidelity financial services."

[NKontheNovreboot]

Teddy @ UVa? never heard those stories. anything of note?

[Captain Hate]

Per Tammy Bruce, the flu shot I got isn't the correct type. I don't see anything that can go wrong with 404Care.

[daddy]

And speaking of Kafkaesque, who can forget this bit from Bill Clinton back before Drudge spilled the transplendent beans about Monica:

Clinton: "I feel like a character in the novel Darkness at Noon," and, "I am surrounded by an oppressive force that is creating a lie about me and I can't get the truth out."

transplendent,transplendent,transplendent.

[AliceH]

"Yes, Ext; AliceH took me to task for outing her by posting that once... "

May be true, but I have no recollection of doing do, nor in fact any recollection of having ever seen a post "outing" zombie.

Nevertheless, I apologize unreservedly to any who may have been negatively affected by what I may or may not have done.

[Old Lurker]

That's very transplendent of you Alice.

[Captain Hate]

Slick is like a character in a De Sade novel.

[Danube on iPad]

I never did any defamation litigation, but I can't see anybody bringing a successful action here.

[jimmyk]

transplendent in that roll

Good Freudian slip/double entendre, daddy.

[Captain Hate]

No need, AliceH; if anybody needs to apologize for things stated in the past it would be me to you.

[Ben]

Can we now move from the US campus rape culture to the 'slut' culture? It seems that roils beneath the surface of inquiry.

[Iggy]

Pretty sure it's daddy that needs to apologize.

[Captain Hate]

I think we can all agree on that, Iggy.

[Jeff Dobbs]

The week that was:

Monday: 0 posts
Tuesday: 3 posts
Wednesday: 4 posts
Thursday: 5 posts
Friday: 3 posts (so far!)

15 posts is pretty impressive for a work week, especially taking Monday off.

However, at this point it is no match for February 26-March 2, 2007.

The amazing thing about that week is that TM put up 17 posts in only 3 days.

With 8 hours left in the day, TM needs two more posts to tie that mark, and three to surpass it.

ZOMG! Did you see what Taubes just said? Wait! Jeter is coming out of retirement??!!? Hold on! Krugman just called out Maguire by name!!!!!!!!!!

[MarkO]

Sweating with the stars.

[NKontheNovreboot]

Speaking of slut culture, here's a profile of a middle school classmate of my son, and she went on to Dear Old Yale: http://yaleherald.com/bullblog/profile-of-a-swug/

[peter]

Bill Safire wrote a column about how Teddy Kennedy after a high speed chase drove his car into the woods, and was hiding in his car with the lights out cowering where the sheriff found him . The column ran some time around the 1980 run for the Presidency, and asked if there was a pattern along with his Chappaquiddick behavior. Teddy had thought enough years had passed from Chappaquiddick, but the column did enough damage that his run never recovered

[Eric in Boise]

daddy's 4:00 is not only transplendent, but non-heteronormatively transplendent. A twofer!

[MarkO]

I found daddy to be splendtransformational.

[daddy]

Well somebody's got to keep Iggy in good practice at throwing up in his mouth, and if not me, Hoo?

[NKontheNovreboot]

'Hoo'... I see what you did there Daddy!
I thought they were Cavaliers, no?

[Extraneus]

Hey, daddy...

Bear tracks: Data shows grizzly’s ‘bizarre’ 2,800-mile trek across backyards, main streets and highways

[RickB]

TM,

You might want to return to Amanda Marcotte. It appears End Days are somewhat more distant than you thought.

[James D.]

Hit @ 4:04

Are you serious?

[peter]

hit's 4:04 is trans-effing-splendent and trans-effing-gender-splendent at the same time

[Jeff Dobbs]

James, there are several elements in my 4:04 - which part is in question?