I've got to give Edwards credit for writing. I like "a complex chapter in my heart that I will never stop reading." It was enough to make me look up where he went to college. Wikipedia says he "attended" Blue Ridge Community College. I think "attended" means he did not graduate. I asked A.I. if that sentence was likely to have been written by A.I., and the answer was no. I'm told that sentence is "poetic but not overly generic or perfectly balanced like much AI romantic prose."
I wondered which party has the burden of this problematic member of Congress and it took me so long to find the answer that I assumed he was a Democrat, but no, he's a Republican. You only get the info in the second-to-last sentence, which tells us that "Edwards... is a top Democratic target in November." I misread that at first.
Edwards succeeded Madison Cawthorn. He was a complex chapter. Remember?
ADDED: I'm not making a new tag for Chuck Edwards, but I already had a tag for Madison Cawthorn. The last time I used it was October 10, 2024, and in that post, as in this one, I asked if you remember him. That was right before the last election, when Elon Musk was proclaiming "I’m not just MAGA, I’m Dark MAGA!" At that time, Wikipedia said that Dark MAGA was "a belief promoted by former U.S. representative Madison Cawthorn that former president Trump would return to power 'with a vengeance.'" And: "Railing against 'the cowardly and weak members of our own party,' Cawthorn wrote [in May 2022]: 'It's time for the rise of the new right, it's time for Dark MAGA to truly take command.'"
Does anyone say "Dark MAGA" anymore? Maybe our eyes have gotten used to the dark. Trump did return to power with a vengeance.
By the way, Cawthorn is currently running to get back into Congress, but this time it's a different district, Florida's 19th congressional district. His old district was North Carolina's 11th district, so Edwards's difficulties are no help to him.
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I attend bi-monthly Swing Dances at the local Polish community center. Good live band. Mostly elderly attendees. But, there’s also a large contingent of attractive young women, in their 30s, 40s and 50s. I’ve been surprised by this. I’ve dated a couple. There are young women out there who really are attracted to older men. It’s not my money, believe me. I view this age difference panic thing with a jaundiced eye. You might think that a 25 or 30 young old attractive woman never expresses interest in a 70+ man. Some do. I await your amateur psychology analyses. Don’t skimp on the mind reading.
This feels like an old school cancel-culture play, like they'd love to get him on groping or worse but there's no there there. I suppose he's creepy enough in his daily life to run this play. Let's see if it works out for them...
I searched, but no details were available. Hmm.
Many women are attracted to older men. Many men are attracted to younger women. Hormones short-circuit logic. If interaction is not conscious, controlled, and avoided (see VP Pence reporting to keep doors open when meeting with women), nature will often happen.
That's old-timey flowery language. It brings to mind Jimmy Carter's "lust in my heart" quote. I take these as derived from mid-20th-century polite, formal, and religious speech. Some people go wordy when they want to fill time with compassionate and happy emotions that don't actually answer the question.
As to this young/youngish female for older male thing: if he's old-old the sexual demands are just plain less which might be seen as a positive for her especially when the do-re-mi is large enough.
I’m adding Chuck Edwards and Madison Cawthorn to the Donald Tusk Bare Bones Club.
It's a special problem to be going after your underlings in the workplace.
I am not a feminist, of course, but all these torts designed to protect women from sex seem to me to be deeply anti-feminist.
Rep. Chuck Edwards singled out young female aides for special attention" (Axios)
Is that from Spinster Alert or clutchyourpearls.com?
I'm just amazed that adult women are happy to portray themselves as helpless virgins in the media. For centuries, apparently, women were suing men for breach of promise. They needed money for their heartache.
That dusty lawsuit is gone, RIP, but now we've got, "he looked at me and said nice things."
Poetry, your honor. He put "heart" in his sentence. Twice!
to be going after your underlings
...such intentionally soft language. What is he doing exactly?
“The heart wants what it wants.”
— Woody Allen
...it's not like there's minimum morality standards to serve in Congress though there is certainly the attempt to maintain a higher standard for GOP members vs their wilder Democrat counterparts. That needs to end. Our politics should not be a handicap tournament with an expected thumb on the scale for Democrats. One standard...
He could always write flowery references for the female staffers when they go to work for someone who treats them better, like Swalwell.
Shouting Thomas, exactly where is this local Polish community center (with the good live band yet) with the large contingent of attractive young women, in their 30s, 40s and 50s (that last one's a tell, ST) who really are attracted to older men (as in exactly how old?)? Stop holding out on our plucky band of commenters here who have to restrain their yearning peccadillos from the mere occasional glimpse of Meade's candid long shots of our blog hostess.
Axios covers for conyers massa (dejavu) and swallwell,
"Your kindness, encouragement, and light-heartedness have written a complex chapter in my heart that I will never stop reading."
Be still my beating heart
It would be better to be cool
It's not time to be open just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
Or I'll be taken for a fool
Sting: “Why does tradition locate our emotional center at the heart and not somewhere in the brain? Why is the most common image in popular music the broken heart? I don’t know… I do know that “Lazarus Heart” was a vivid nightmare that I wrote down and then fashioned into a song. A learned friend of mine informs me that it is the archetypical dream of the fisher king…can’t I do anything original? —Source: Nothing Like the Sun liner notes.
What exactly was cawthorns offense telling the truth
I've often told this "story": I was with my FWB up at the inlet one fine South Florida day. As she walked from my car to the bulkhead, a twenty-something man eyed her and then asked me "what's an old guy like you doing with a hot babe like that?" I told him that I was witty. He asked what I meant by that. "I make her laugh. And when she does, her eyes close a little, and she doesn't notice how old I really am." (She just turned 30 and we've been together, on and off, for nine years now)
"Thou art graven on my heart" is a phrase often associated with Isaiah 49:16.
Democrat aide twinks can get it on right in an empty Congressional chamber with absolutely no penalty, even with photos published online, but one flowery note, OhMiGod. Exile. I'll be interested to see how the Swalwell retribution proceeds.
By the way, I agree completely with the sentiment about hitting on underlings in the workplace.
Mispelled accountability
He's married, so the actual tort ought to be adultery, if you want to accuse him of something.
Liberals have been taught that adultery is nothing.
So they are jumping up and down about an anonymous girl who was made uncomfortable in the office because of...
gifts
1-to-1 dinner
trip to Vegas
and a handwritten letter
You have to read through the Victorian Secret Code, but my assumption is that one ex-staffer took the gifts, and the dinner, and the trip to Vegas, and the letter. And another staffer did not.
I feel sorry for his wife.
Yesterday, I took a paragraph entirely written by Grok and asked Grammarly if it was AI. It said 100% not.
"It's a special problem to be going after your underlings in the workplace."
There is no respect for tradition among you damned hippies.
Underling is a great SEO word if you're looking for your next soft-porn office romance novel.
My Underlings
Hot Underlings
Bad Boss and the Hot Underlings
Also, if you want a good review from the NYT, don't forget the 9 to 5 S&M reversal in the 3rd act.
Was he a sex pest or just a pest? Swalwell's masturbation videos reset the parameters on MeToo. Composing and sending florid sentences, if that's all there is, is an inconvenience, but would it be an offense?
The line about old-timey male politicians was that they "had an eye for the ladies," which meant that they were so grabby that no woman could be safe in their company. I always wondered, though, if there were some politicians who did have a purely aesthetic appreciation of female faces and figures or romantically pined away for companionship.
> It's a special problem to be going after
> your underlings in the workplace.
That's some prime rhhardin bait, so where is he?
Cawthorn is no prize, but if anyone still thinks that Wikipedia is an unbiased source for anything, read the Wiki article. It reads like an SPLC press release.
“Swalwell's masturbation videos”
WHAT? Call me a prude but I wouldn’t even make a masturbation video and send it to myself.
Item #1,764 in the list of reasons that you are not a congressman, Meade. (All good reasons, too).
So I guess if one tells a hot young woman job applicant that she seems to have the qualities that make a good underling, that's OK?
They had to dig deep to find this Edwards guy. "Both sides".
I do seem to recall another Edwards guy from NC who had some "issues" with women to whom he was not married.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/04/the-gop-is-holding-a-bombshell-on-graham-platner-hell-have-to-leave-the-state-n4952486
Did I miss the part where he told her she had great tits?
Going after underlings in the workplace isn't all that terrible unless it includes going after their underthings.
FWIW, I've had more than one underlings who made no secret about wanting to jump my bones.
All great workers, all became and remained good friends, most married, none successful (although, in my dotage, I think I might-shoulda picked one or two of 'em off :-)
Usually when reporters play hide the party then D is the reason. What is Axios up to?
Yeah, Cawthorn is a great illustration of how the Left don't really believe the things they say. They jumped all over a paraplegic. Accused him of being gay. All the stuff they say you can't do. CC, JSM
I have employed thousands of people over the years and had a very diverse workplace with women in all positions top to bottom. It has been my experience that the women are more likely to do these sexual things to male collogues than the other way around. I've had to fire more than one woman for sending guys at works naked photos or texting sexual stuff to them. Some were married and it caused huge problems. I've never had a woman complain about getting that from any of the males. I know it happens, but it seems that men know the taboo, and women think it doesn't apply to them. Politicians are a different species.
The poor man has resting hound dog face
You ain't ever caught a rabbit
droopy dawg
Brian cox the early years
> with women in all positions top to bottom
TMI, dude.
I still do not understand that Elvis Presley song
It reads like the cruelest break-up rant ever
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
He's calling her a bitch
and then he's like
no
you are lower than a bitch
if you were a bitch
you would catch a rabbit
and be friendly
you are beneath bitch
Well, they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
Yeah, they said you was high-classed
Well, that was just a lie
That's when he drops her down to bitch-level. And then it's below bitch again.
Yeah, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
And all the girls are going woo-woo
and cheering and throwing their underwear
AI weighs in...
The relationship between Elvis Presley’s 1956 hit "Hound Dog" and feminism is primarily viewed through the lens of its original recording by Big Mama Thornton (1952), whose version is considered a landmark of early rock/R&B with themes of female empowerment. While Thornton's version was a direct assertion of independence against an exploitative partner, Elvis’s version was adapted into a more generic, less narrative song of insult, often interpreted as removing the original feminist context.
Ya think?
“It has been my experience that the women are more likely to do these sexual things to male collogues than the other way around. “
Can confirm. It’s happened to me more than once. I actually married one. Althouse can kick me off the board, now.
Worst Elvis lyric ever...
Your kindness, encouragement, and light-heartedness have written a complex chapter in my heart
I cannot put music to that shit
Don't start a garage band, that would be my advice
Do nothing with your pelvis, that's my follow-up suggestion
An empathetic entreaty or affirmative action?
I always heard You ain't nothing but a hound dog as a man aggrieved at his friend hitting on his girl. I'll have to listen again. It does make more sense with a woman singing about her boyfriend.
We've all met blue collar people with no college diploma who are better read than some purported Ivy League grads.
"...The poor man has resting hound dog face..."
He kind looks like Agent Zed in M.I.B. (Rip Torn)
I remember an operation in Oklahoma where a female employee was giving favors to the night shift. They were keeping it close and quiet but she was refusing to consort with a few of the workers, probably thought they were not good enough. So these shunned guys complained to the plant manager about it, I guess expecting him to rectify the situation. After the frantic call I spent the day with legal counsel and they figured out a way to let them all go.
Re. Hound Dog - I have a vague memory of the whole story (lyrics and origin) being told by Scott Johnson, in a ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down’ piece, at Powerline, a couple of years ago.
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