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Alabama says, ‘No Moore’

Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold is alleged to have harassed his former communications director, Lauren Greene, in part by talking to her about a female lobbyist who had propositioned him for a threesome.

Have you seen Farenthold? It’s hard to believe any woman would proposition him at all, let alone for a threesome. But if she did, she wouldn’t have to look far for a third party. There’s enough of Farenthold to make two guys.

That might seem a low blow, but you know what, it’s a new day. And one of those signs of that new day is that Senate hopeful and mall exile Roy Moore lost to Doug Jones in Alabama’s special election Tuesday. ...

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The Darwinian theory of Al Franken

Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, is resigning from the U.S. Senate, and many folks are none too happy about it – not the least of whom is Al Franken himself.

In a farewell address that was nothing less than bitterly ironic, Franken wondered why he was going while the P-Grabber in Chief remained in the White House.

He’s staying and you’re going, Al, for the same reason that men harass women: One has the power. The other doesn’t. ...

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Is sexual harassment lookist?

In Larry David’s extremely awkward “Saturday Night Live” appearance a few weeks back, he worried that the recent rash of sexual predators was all Jewish – which is not true, but anyway, what I thought he was going to say was that they were all unattractive. (This was before Matt Lauer and Peter Martins, ballet master in chief of New York City Ballet, were added to the list of sexual harassers.) ...

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A taxing time as Russkiegate heats up

So Mr. “Lock Her Up” has become Mr. “Don’t Lock Me Up.”

Former National Security Adviser – and loose cannon Lt. Gen. (retired) Michael Flynn – has pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI as special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation and Russkiegate intensify.

Flynn – who had been influence-peddling around the globe when he hitched his wagon to Trump’s dim star – is, of course, guilty of more than lying to the FBI about speaking to the Russians while Barack Obama was still president. ...

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No end in sight for sexual harassment

In his Sunday New York Times’ piece “The Unexamined Male Libido,” writer Stephen Marche offers this revelatory thought: “Men arrive at this moment of reckoning (about sexual harassment) woefully unprepared. Most are shocked by the reality of women’s lived experience.”

Translation: Men live with women. Men sleep with women. Men father women’s children. But they don’t know them. ...

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The woman he loves

Somewhere up there, Princess Diana is smiling.

And Wallis Warfield Simpson, aka the Duchess of Windsor, is laughing her skinny butt off.

For Prince Harry of Wales has announced that come next spring he is taking a bride. And not just any bride but a divorced, American one at that. ...

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Thanksgiving and the attitude of ingratitude

It’s the season in which we give thanks for our blessings as a nation and as individuals. But that’s not what prevails in certain quarters.

Here we must begin at the top. Usually, American presidents use the Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity to express how grateful we all are. Instead, El Presidente Trumpet, issuing a decree from his cell phone at the Winter White House (Mar a Lago) in Florida, is using the holiday to complain about how ungrateful certain people are toward him. Namely LaVar Ball, father of LiAngelo Ball, the UCLA basketball player picked up for shoplifting in China. ...

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