I’ve been following the literary world Twitter gossip about this debacle: A number of staffers were so horrified that they were immediately looking for new jobs. Now a disclaimer appears above the Ghomeshi piece stating that the following issue will address some of the factual discrepancies. It will have to be a long…

“One of my female friends quips that I should get some kind of public recognition as a #MeToo pioneer. There are lots of guys more hated than me now. But I was the guy everyone hated first.”

Just making sure I understand... so Patrick Kennedy is implying that because she doesn’t have a full-time maid, or multiple maids, to open and close the curtains for her, that she has to have some kind of mechanism to open and close the curtains? Because she can’t do it herself?

I’ve been wondering why no one seems to be making more of this tidbit. Wendi Deng is a world leader groupie and a schemer of the highest order. The fact that Murdoch let her go with little fanfare after she wrote her Tony Blair “Dear Penthouse” letters says to me she’s got some serious shit on him and his pals. I…

This is respect from one Queen to another. 

It’s not cheap, but this is also 400k cash we’re talking about. Getting a lawyer involved to get a Limited Conservatorship of Estate (or some kind of a Trust or SOMETHING) established should have been step one to dealing with this.

True that. If there wasn’t some line between you and that ‘other’ there means there’s nothing stopping you from ending up like him. So you need to enforce those boundaries, which, the brutality of how we treat the poor and homeless adds to the unthinkable horror of imagining yourself in their position which leads to…

The cashless girl driving on empty thinks she's responsible with money... riiiiight.

It’s a gift. Gift taxes (if any) are paid by the givers. Unless this was done as a business of the homeless guy, I don’t see how he can be charged taxes on it.

I think it works as a way to raise money amongst friends and family. I know I have an old friend who was able to raise over $50K after his wife got a bad form of cancer - I was happy to send a few hundred bucks and it’s been great being able to see updates through the tool since I know they are dealing with so much.…

Not to mention the implications that come with handing over a large sum of money to someone who ostensibly needs a bunch of money. A friend of mine has MS and needed a new wheelchair, so a well-meaning friend started up a GoFundMe. She didn’t realize that that income would jeopardize his disability and medicaid and he…

Well, this is the worst O. Henry story I’ve ever read. Should call it, “No Good Deed...”

I’m shocked, SHOCKED, a homeless veteran with addiction issues didn’t get clean right away forever and ever under the novice care of a receptionist and a carpenter. What the fuck were they expecting? And those people knew better... they talked a big game about setting him up under 3rd parties and supervision that they…

And they were the fucking dipshits that ran out of gas and had no way to pay for more in the first place. If that doesn’t indicate a basic lack of common sense and foresight, well...

This is the problem with GoFundMe. It is a really shitty way to care for people, it is a complete crapshoot if your page will get attention and if it does, and you get a crazy amount of money, there’s no guidance on how it should be spent. Our society would be massively better off with Universal Basic Income,…

Also, if you don’t trust a homeless stranger to responsibly manage a five or six figure payday, don’t deliberately set out to create one for him. It’s a massively disproportionate (and attention-seeking) way to reward a random act of kindness. 

The whole situation is grossed - couldn’t she just buy him a damn meal and call it a day. Why was the GoFundMe even created? Its never a good idea to create one without knowing anything at all about the person you are helping. 

Good. You can’t just withhold money belonging to someone because you think you are a better caretaker for it. If the guy needs a guardian or conservator to care for his money, then they should have tried to apply for that through the courts.  I have zero sympathy for these assholes.

This is weird--If they weren’t using the money for themselves, did they just get a kick out of holding the responsibility and acting like his guardians/parents/benefactors? If I raised money for someone I wouldn’t want the responsibility of managing it, I would just give it to them. Seems like they liked being able to…

My favorite part of Versailles is le petit trianon, but i also really love her hamlet - think i recently read that one can rent parts now!