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AP Exclusive: Former aide says GOP Rep. Trent Franks offered her $5 million to carry his child.

indecent proposal movie poster meme in 3, 2...

Just saw a lefty clickebate thing about Hillary supporters trying to place false allegations against Bernie.

#EveryDayIs2016

NEWS: @farenthold's harassment problem continued even AFTER Lauren Greene sued. @marianne_levine & @MaggieSeverns say he brought in his OWN investigators -- who, shockingly, cleared the office https://t.co/JctvUQtSWU

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) December 8, 2017

Lawyers for “Girls” writer Murray Miller — who has been accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau — had initially claimed that Perrineau had demanded money from Miller. Now his lawyers are apologizing, saying that claim was incorrect — and that she’d never requested damages.

In a statement to Variety, Donald Walerstein and Matthew Walerstein wrote, “In a previous statement to the media, we stated that Ms. Perrineau sought substantial monetary damages from our client Murray Miller. Neither Ms. Perrineau nor her attorney have ever made a demand for money. Our previous above statement was incorrect and the result of a good-faith misunderstanding.”

This seems like a reasonable time to post this:

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/yes-himtoo-how-would-you-react-if-a-man-you-know-and-1821028948

Multiple women say appeals court judge Alex Kozinski asked them to watch porn or subjected them to sexually inappropriate comments https://t.co/v7VbysRsxG

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 8, 2017

the result of a good-faith misunderstanding

says you

While I wish there was some tenable standard in place, this sort of house cleaning is long overdue.

twitter suggests that a lot of people knew about kozinski

what the fuck

"You don’t sleep if I say so. You don’t shit unless I say so. Do you understand?” https://t.co/b1WFPhbyBt

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 8, 2017

Gross

A judicial investigation ultimately found that Kozinski did not intend to allow the public to see the material, and that instead the judge and his son were careless in protecting a private server from being accessible on the Internet.

what

Welcome to being black in America! I hope you brought a dish; this picnic is potluck.

I would just like to say it is a privilege and an honor to get invited to the cookout and also ancestry.com said I'm 3% west african, here are some of my chili formulas

what's cooking? part 5: 2017-2027

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/12/08/the-one-best-idea-for-ending-sexual-harassment/?utm_term=.cfc9ce9fee00

Airlines: Sara Nelson | Television: Gretchen Carlson | Parenting: Joanna Goddard | Corporations: Debra Katz | Firefighting: Kishia Clemencia | Finance: Sallie Krawcheck | Domestic work: Ai-jen Poo | Congress: Jackie Speier | Clergy: Bethany Mandel | Military: Monica Medina | Hospitals: Jean Ross | Universities: Nancy Chi Cantalupo | Newsrooms: Jill Abramson | Jewish communities: Danya Ruttenberg | Churches: Boz Tchividjian | National security: Rosa Brooks

ideas solicited for each of the fields above

xpost I could also revive my oven-baked muffin pan latke scheme (no deep fryer required) if people are into tots and hash browns they will definitely be into my muffin pan latkes

http://deadline.com/2017/12/bryan-singer-teen-ex-lover-hollywood-sex-drugs-party-life-1202216936/

Hell of a URL

Really? I mean it’s not even a prime

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1202216936

btw Tomboto, Spacey's problem is an underage one, not a gay one

in my exp, adult gay men are mostly accepting of groping each other as we're all rutting horndogs (until age kills it)

Mario Batali:

https://ny.eater.com/2017/12/11/16759540/mario-batali-sexual-misconduct-allegations

We built these restaurants so that our guests could have fun and indulge, but I took that too far in my own behavior.

is it like mandatory that all of these basically pro-forma statements have to include at least one clangingly wrong-headed sentence just to keep things lively

That "I made this great contribution to the community/industry/culture, but I also did these bad things" formulation seems to show up in all these apologies

It's more like "these misdeeds are an unfortunate side effect of my quest for awesomeness"

Yes, exactly.

All these apology letters and related commentary make me think about this:

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/male-feminist-i-really-think-id-absolutely-crush-i-7018

^^ brutal and otm

omg

Related:

https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valley-s-worst-apologies-of-2017-1821064631

I'm reading "indulge" as "get wasted"

We built these restaurants in the spirit of ancient Roman orgies. Unfortunately. They were a wee bit too realistic for some.

Things got out of hand at our Wild West themed robot rape park but that's the price you pay for greatness

What is the tone in that clickhole article

i believe it's 'profane marc loi'

or perhaps 'matt mcgorry's internal monologue'

xxp weary

friend of mine had occasion to have to work w Batali in a professional capacity some years ago and while he did nothing of this nature in that instance I guess he was the biggest asshole about everything and kept not showing up for stuff and delayed things several days, def have off a terrible vibe I guess

I mean celebrity chefs are up there with directors as a profession in which behaving just terribly seems to be part of the .... not gig, not draw, not expectation...but it really seems to come with the job

I expect gentility from this fellow:

http://delposto.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2014/11/Sausage-Necklace_Credit_Melanie-Dunea-p196l1fq2p1doj1dool1pt4e7jh-e1417118773779.jpg

Just please tell me hes not Australian

I used to work for a chef who's now semi-famous and he used to have a rep as a complete nightmare, till he sobered up. I recall some chair-throwing on one of my first nights there. Kitchens in general are just cesspools of harassment and drug abuse, but I'm guessing that's common knowledge by now.

professional chefs are, by and large, mostly nutjobs

I mean celebrity chefs are up there with directors as a profession in which behaving just terribly seems to be part of the .... not gig, not draw, not expectation...but it really seems to come with the job

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, December 11, 2017 8:19 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love all the bad tattoo man chefs with their arms folded glaring at the camera, angry because their new hot restaurant is opening and they have to cook food.

they'd have to be. I mean, it's just fuckin' fuel, food. xp

How different they are to the humble contestants on Masterchef.

Similar situation in Chicago last month:
https://chicago.eater.com/2017/10/23/16523668/publican-chef-cosmo-goss-fired-one-off-photo-employee-inappropriate-personal

It's so much part of kitchen/restaurant culture - the rock-n-roll bacchanalia "rock-star" thing - that I assume much more is on the way. In the way that Batali now casts a shadow on the temple/destination Eataly, at some point 'hot new restaurants' will take a hit as people get more aware of the culture that makes it happen.

how long until a plate of pork belly brings Guy Fieri up on assault charges?

Prob worth noting here (or maybe not but whatever) that Guy actually comes out looking sorta decent at heart in comparison to the more snooty Micheline starred chefs.

quick robin, to the hot take mobile! i've got a date with destiny and 600 words on Buzzfeed!

inappropriate behavior, sexual harassment, drinking, drugs, etc are so embedded in the restaurant and bar business it's hard to even know where to start

Guy Fieri is probably the best dude in the biz