Instead of wandering around fruitlessly at the Yahoo site, looking for a way to get back to Yahoo Classic email, it finally dawned on me that I might be able to actually write to the folks at Yahoo and request … Continue reading →
…what’s “a spokeswoman in the office of the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration“? Because that’s what Karen Kraushaar does these days. Seems a rather odd job description. But remind me never to send Kraushaar any of those silly … Continue reading →
I’ve long had a special interest in the topic of false accusations—or rather, how to tell false from true, when the only evidence is the word of one party against another. Whether the charge be date rape, recovered memories of … Continue reading →
…to publish this story. But not Politico. [ADDENDUM: Actually, it seems the story first appeared in the Washington Examiner, a fairly conservative rag.]
Continue reading →…who’s fortunate enough (or unfortunate enough, depending on the results) to have a possibly-exonerating DNA test to fall back on. In the case of a false accusation of fathering a baby, it’s a simple way to prove the truth or … Continue reading →
I’ve just discovered a not-so-well-known dancer named Melissa Hough, who used to dance with the Boston Ballet but is now a member of the Houston Ballet. Hough reminds me of retired ballerina Cynthia Gregory, who used to dance with American … Continue reading →
A new book has come out by former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer, detailing the killing of Bin Laden and alleging that many former accounts got it wrong. I have no way of knowing whether Pfarrer is correct—he says that Bin … Continue reading →
…Gloria Allred digs up another Cain accuser, Sharon Bialek, who ups the ante and accuses him of genital groping in a car in July of 1997. In another enormous surprise, the accuser failed to report the offense to the NRA … Continue reading →
Transcendental.
Continue reading →Who first tipped off Politico to the sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain that have become such a big story? I will say at the outset that I haven’t a clue. And neither, I suspect, does anyone else, except Politico … Continue reading →
Hmmm, very interesting. What does it mean? It could certainly mean, as Ace suspects, that it was a bogus accusation in the first place. Or it could mean that the accuser knows her name would be dragged through the mud, … Continue reading →
The most interesting thing about Herman Cain’s predicament may be the spotlight it throws on the state of sexual harassment laws: awful. Sexual harassment is one of those causes of action, initially designed to tackle a real problem, that fast … Continue reading →