Even The Wolf likely can't clean up Harvey Weinstein's pending troubles

Yeah, good to know I haven't grown immune to these stories. He's awful.

 

Take a look at the picture at the end of the story with that creepy old guy and the 15 year old girl. Look at how close he is standing and how his arm is wrapped around her. Exactly like the Nickelodeon guy.

 

#metoo hits home - my youngest son's former water polo coach

OC water polo coach accused of sexually abusing 7 girls

 

This guy.

$45 million in settlements.

$45 million.

How Bill O’Reilly Silenced His Accusers

 

Molly Ringwald is a pretty damned good writer.

Revisiting “The Breakfast Club” in the Age of #MeToo | The New Yorker

 

That is a great article.

I've often wondered or believed that some time in the future, guns will be looked at the same way in movies.

 

The Monica Lewinsky essay was pretty good as well. It makes me feel that there may have been some truth in what Bobby Knight said about "going on to greater things."
I enjoyed writing about people doing things for a good chunk of my life, but I also eventually realized I needed to be one of those people doing things (whether written about or not). And I do think those going into the profession wanting to make "a difference" might be better served in making the difference than spotlighting others who do.

 

This was my answer in law firm interviews whenever I was asked (pretty much every time) why I left sports journalism for law school. Obviously, journalists can and do make a difference, though, when fulfilling the watchdog role, in particular.

 

Was waiting and waiting to understand from which place her take was coming from. And then she got there.

How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it? Erasing history is a dangerous road when it comes to art—change is essential, but so, too, is remembering the past, in all of its transgression and barbarism, so that we may properly gauge how far we have come, and also how far we still need to go.