ANN COULTER’S column on the controversy over Herman Cain is very entertaining. She writes:

To have been accused of sexual harassment in the 1990s is like having been accused of molesting children at preschools in the 1980s or accused of being a witch in Massachusetts in the 1690s.

In the 1990s, one plaintiff won a $50 million jury verdict against Wal-Mart on the grounds that a “hostile environment” was created by her supervisor’s yelling at both male and female employees. In another case, a plaintiff won a $250,000 award for sexual harassment based on her complaint that a male colleague had reached for a pastry saying, “Nothing I like more in the morning than sticky buns,” while “wriggl(ing)” his eyebrows.

It got so crazy that a 6-year-old boy was suspended from class for a day for kissing a classmate on the cheek, and a Goya painting had to be removed from a Penn State classroom because a professor complained that it constituted sexual harassment.

With no standard other than the subjective offense taken by the accuser, absolutely anyone could be called a witch, i.e., a sexual harasser. So it’s striking that the only two conservative public figures accused of being witches both happened to be conservative blacks: Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain.

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Michael S. writes:

The other day I put up this photo in my office. It’s of Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld.

Roger G. writes:

Here is a formal, exact and thoroughly legal definition of sexual harassment: Being hit on by an ugly guy.

James H. writes:

In light of Mr. Cain’s latest kerfuffle, perhaps we should revisit some sexual harassment guidelines. [Note: This video is somewhat indecent.]

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