True. It would be far more generous of them to pay for his dorm or rent him a studio apartment in Chicago rather than just say, “hey we have an extra house we never use. Why don’t you live there as our house sitter since it is empty?”

I hate this couple. Not as human beings, of course. Who knows what they are really like behind the PR?. But as a narrative and a carefully sculpted image they make me grind my teeth because of the way they mimic a trite 80s romance plot. A wealthy “confirmed bachelor” who only dates younger models on a short term…

Louise, you’re 35. You’re not a “girl” of any kind. You’re a grown-ass woman who has to take responsibility for her choices.

Slightly off-topic, but what is your favorite brand for inexpensive, comfortable, versatile black pants that can be dressed up for work? Bonus if they fit someone with curves and don’t have pockets that bulge (I hate that)- I have the hardest time finding pants that don’t gape at the waist.

Nope. I know someone who was injured in a crash caused by a police chase and there was a big lawsuit and settlement. You don’t have to prove your sobriety because there is always a presumption of innocence. There is literally no reason it would be in his best interest to have his blood drawn. They were hoping to…

It’s so sweet that you got up early to watch this and drink tea with your grandmother! What a wonderful memory. I’m American but I somehow inherited a bunch of commemorative plates from the reign of Victoria. I imagine my ancestors had great tea parties for those events too.

I wasn’t of age to watch Diana’s wedding, but I spent a day watching her funeral. Now I’m over the age she was when she died. Weird and uncanny....

Unfortunately, the symptoms are so vague you can’t really tell if you have ovarian cancer or strained your back picking up the laundry. I try not to look up symptoms because if I do, every ache and pain and mild case of indigestion would send me to the ER. My aunt died of ovarian cancer and she was healthy until the…

Well you have to give them props for having a character go through with an abortion and have it be the right choice. If it were produced today, I bet the studio would make the writers change that so she has a miscarriage. And they’d make Baby stay with Johnny. It actually kind of amazes me that they could get away…

I thought the Thomas Jefferson reference was funny if you know how reverently people in Charlottesville speak of him. Mr. Jefferson this and Mr. Jefferson that....it borders on a religious devotion. I thought she was trying to point out the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of the university and which was covered up…

I agree - I just can’t get it out of my mind. I hope she makes millions of dollars in her lawsuit and uses the money to prevent this travesty in the future.

Well in the rare event that someone was smuggling dangerous items in his/her vagina or anus or anywhere else, there must be better ways to find out. An x-ray or just wait it out with medical supervision? For one thing, the health of the suspect should be the primary concern. Surely it is dangerous to carry drugs in…

haha - thanks for the subtitles ;)

I’m certainly not advocating for the police to do medical exams! I just think it’s interesting that the standards of a country we regularly condemn for human rights violations are so much higher than our own when it comes to Black women. In the very, very few and rare circumstance in which it might be necessary to…

Yeah, I honestly don’t care if they thought she was doing meth....or injecting herself with the blood of newborn babies. It shouldn’t matter. There is no justification for this kind of search.

Satire of what? I just dashed off that comment in the heat of the moment. Sorry if it was unclear. I’m saying my friend was treated more humanely by the police in a country often accused of human rights violations than this young woman was in the US. The police thought my friend was a drug smuggler (she’s not,…

Just to follow up....a friend of mine was once forcibly searched (unjustly) for drugs in a devolopping country with a reputation for human right violations. Did the police strip search her in the street? No, they took her to the hospital where trained medical professionals searched her. It was scary and demeaning,…

Do people regularly ride around town with marijuana in their vaginas? Why would they do that? I mean, if the police had serious cause to believe a young woman shoved drugs up her vagina, take her to the hospital! That would be cause for concern. If I thought someone was using marijuana as a tampon I’d be very…

Or you can do like me....find a puppy through a rescue online, visit thinking “I’m just considering my options”....then spend thousands of dollars in vet bills and chew toys. And though she isn’t the calm dog you imagined, fall hopelessly in love and spend hours every day throwing balls and rubbing her tummy. I…

Any president worth his/her salt would have flown down to Charlottesville to meet with community leaders and the victims’ families and given a speech either in a church or at UVa.