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(I am writing this down because every few weeks, William gets attacked as a corporate shill and a sellout human being. That's because he works for Elsevier and because most people have no idea who he is. I know William and am writing this down so I can...

Twenty years ago, an elderly tailor in Brooklyn, NY sexually assaulted me. I was 19. I never reported it. Only my closest friends and relatives knew about it until now.
I came in to shorten pants from a hand-me-down suit. The tailor closed the curtains and asked me to take off my jeans. He measured my legs. Then he pulled down my underwear and proceeded to do things that I am not able to share even now....

I have lost count of the number of headlines with, "Trump has finally crossed a line..." The problem is that short of openly calling for genocide, there are no more lines left for Trump to cross.
I understand the shock and outrage with each new despicable utterance from Trump. The problem is that by reacting to each new one with "this is the final one!" we implicitly pardon everything else that he said. We suggest that everything before was forgivable...

(Image: Entrance of The Trump Building,  Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0)
It seems that every few months, a new startup scam comes up on our radar. It's always someone claiming that they will make it easy for you to get millions for your startup if you just pay them a little bit first. I have written before about these pay...