It is usable. And if that girl came forward (assuming it wasn't over statute) it would be great evidence. But otherwise it isn't very helpful. After all people make up shit online all the time and with no evidence of a crime other than that he would probably just say he was bullshitting and beat the charge.

Thank you. I'm not even a TSwift fan, but I was rolling my eyes so fucking hard at this post. Does every song about a big city have to address real life, serious issues? I'm from L.A., and songs about the beach and Hollywood instead of gangs don't bother me. This post is such a stretch...also don't get why Jezebel…

"A subject like New York City" is, I think, the root of our disagreement. All of her songs, from what I've seen (I'm a recent fan, so that's like 2013 forward plus the ones I may have heard on the radio) are about her life. So, yes: buying a multi-million-dollar apartment in her mid-20s as an out-of-towner is the…

I suppose Katy Perry's "California Gurls" should have discussed water shortages, migrant farm worker's rights, rising rent and gentrification, and state budget shortfalls.

The problem is she's forgetting her audience, her tweenage audience who is screaming for more songs about poverty, injustice, and I can't even.

Jesus Murphy, NY is not the center of the damn universe. It has its charms but is not the most captivating place on earth. Can we sing about other cities now? Seattle is beautiful. Fucking amazing donuts. Woodstock, Vermont is another gorgeous place with a great restaurant in a converted mill. NY is like your…

Not to mention that I don't think stop-and-frisk or poverty levels are really Taylor's stories to be telling, and if she had tried to address it, Jezebel would be taking her to task for that.

Right? It's Taylor Swift. If Taylor Swift tried to write a song about the mean streets and how mean they can be that would go over like a lead balloon. Girlfriend leads a charmed life so she writes songs about that.

"Someone should tell Taylor Swift about stop-and-frisk, or poverty levels, or the effects of school budget cuts, or people of color being pushed out of the neighborhoods they have populated for decades because of condos and Ted Talks."

You're demanding an awful lot from a bubblegum pop singer.

Didn't Byron keep a bear in his rooms at Cambridge (Oxford?) because he wasn't allowed a dog but the rules didn't say anything about a bear?

This is why you are alone.

Actually, I'll be celebrating my 20 year anniversary next month, and I and my partner are twice-a-month folks (on average), and quite satisfied with that. Some people just don't have the sex drive that others do; the problem comes when there's a serious mismatch between sex drives. As long as both partners are GGG…

You're absolutely right: with most men's shoes (and women's too, but you've got a lot more variance in women's footwear designs) after a certain point you're paying for prestige.

I used to wear out cheap work boots every 6 to 9 months, so I upgraded to $100 work boot. They were a bit better, but I still wore them out and resoling them wasn't an option.

People who can afford to spend $500 on a new pair of shoes don't care about saving a bit of money by reconditioning them.

As a designer and marketer, these photos made my heart sing and I downloaded a bunch of them when they were first posted as free as a promotion. It is so hard to find stock images that don't look stiff and boring. These pictures look fresh and authentic.

Thank you for this comment and for being the person who brings up the sociocultural complications with this issue. It is all too easy to be tempted to impose our western ideologies in contexts like this before more thoroughly considering the issue.

Yes I've heard that sedating is not usually the way it's done anymore because ideally animals shouldn't be sedated without observation. My cats aren't really friends, so I can't imagine them comforting each other, but that would be an interesting thing to look at in the research. It will involve a "flight simulator"…

Ah fuck, that throws my plans out the window. I am planning on starting a PhD in how cats cope with the stresses of air transport later this year. (Irony: I have to fly my own cats to a new country to do it too). And before you ask how that will contribute to science and/or help my career, don't. I know.

I find this interesting—i wrote something about this a while ago based on an older Grimm article—though not with as many links. Cats are just totally different and it plays into how much of our assessments of intelligence is often overlapping with the animal having similar motivations to us or motivations we…