The 14 year old daughter of a friend of mine recently came home after school to tell her mother that one of he friends was dating a guy who was 19. The daughter was concerned, and followed her friend to where she was meeting this guy. She even got a picture of him on her phone. Dude was way older than 19.

That’s from a parody Facebook account.

No, steak guy was at Stanford. This guy was still in high school.

Oh look, a whole basket of deplorable basketcases.

Confession time: based on her tiny avatar , I thought Kara was white, but then after she said something about being black, I clicked on her picture.

They are, however, some of the siblings say there was abuse while other siblings deny it.

Kara is black...

I know a lot of adults have read them.. My point is the first couple of books had just come out and it was nowhere near the cultural force it would become. Harry is a pretty common name, (15th most popular in England in 1998, first year I could find data for) so I don’t see any reason to jump to “his parents must…

I personally wouldn’t be shocked if Chechnya is a just a pilot for something the Kremlin plans to roll out more widely in Russia. Chechnya has been pretty much crushed by the Kremlin, and if Moscow didn’t at least give tacit approval to this, it wouldn’t be happening.

Back when the Harry Potter books first came out, they weren’t really being read by adults. I suspect it’s just a coincidence.

Sounds about right. Especially if the historical personage was illiterate.

I’m not so sure Donald Trump even acknowledges he has a problem.

I once saw a documentary where they said that after the Windsors fled Paris for Spain in advance of the German invasion, he tried to send the maid back to Paris to pick up the bedsheets they had forgotten.

“They were children. Not just little tools to ease your manufactured grief.“

Her Uncle Edward who cheated the crown out of a million pounds in assets that should have been surrendered on his abdication, and played poor to squeeze more money out of his brother?

I’m not sure anyone lets them per sae.

And then there was their Uncle, Earl Spencer, saying horrible things about their father’s family at their mother’s funeral and pledging that he would be there for the Princes, a promise he utterly failed to keep.

Exactly. I was appalled by people who thought it appropriate to say terrible things about the Queen and Prince Charles in one breath, and then in the next breath say “We have to support the princes!” In the wake of Diana’s death.

Yes. I was going for understatement for comedic effect.

Which is an odd thing to do to a kid in front of cameras, no? His judgement seems a bit impaired somehow.