I’d be a puddle, too, and I don’t think you’re taking a morbid turn at all: that observation of yours is pretty damn realistic.

If you can believe it, that’s not the actual funeral, which is only taking place this afternoon. Yesterday was the public visitation and, because René has been given the honour of a national funeral by the Québec provincial government, I’m guessing Céline felt it right to be there to greet the many who showed up to…

Seconded. Some of these unkind remarks are pretty appalling and neither clever nor funny, for that matter.

Glad it was all worth it in the end, Hillary! You really can’t go wrong using baked — as opposed to deli — ham for a Croque-Monsieur, but especially so when pregnant.

I think your instincts are probably right. I’m in Québec and the brother is definitely more of a surprise than René, although it sounds like the brother was likely sick for quite some time. Céline had always been quite open with the media here about things like René living on borrowed time — for what seemed like the…

Claire Foy strikes me as an uncommonly versatile actress — she was quite convincing as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall — so I’m already pretty much sold on her portraying Queen Elizabeth II. Can’t wait!

It’s also a fault/flaw of the commenting system we have now. Back in the day — I’m talking pre-Kinja altogether — not only did you get notified if you were banned or destarred, the notification itself appeared just below the comment that did you in, which meant that everything was happening out in the open. It was all…

Yes, the Groupthink title is indeed intentionally ironic. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was assigned by Anna Holmes herself back in 2009 when the decision was made that it was time for an open forum.

I regard that as a fair question. You’re absolutely right about Jezebel’s tendency to turn the tables on commenters — via the we-never-said-we-were-a-feminist-website manoeuvre — whenever they’ve gotten themselves into deep doo-doo of their own making. Doubly so with past fuck-ups that’ve gained them widespread media…

I’ve already replied to someone else who’s raised this very. same. point., which I happen to think is an entirely fair question with respect to Jezebel, especially from an — ahem — “historical” standpoint. And, yes, I do agree that, accordingly, it is hard to take this piece seriously, or as seriously as it ought to…

I’m so glad you raised this point. It really threw me for a loop seeing Jezebel referred to as a “feminist website” in the very first sentence. Time and time again over the years, we’ve been reminded that it’s not, although that’s most often happened when they completely fucked-up and did something abjectly…

They’re both lovely names, in my view, plus I’d think you’re ahead of the curve in using the proper accent-aigu on Esmé. (“Esme” without an accent is all over the shop/map, pronunciation-wise).

I still really like the name Lachlan but it lost some “currency” with me upon the discovery that one of Rupert Murdoch’s sons is named Lachlan.

I think you mean Rumer, with an “e”? As in: Rumer Godden (British writer) or Rumer Willis (actress daughter of Bruce and Demi)?

^^^^^ It’s uncanny how much this gif captures my gut reaction. I had seen the words “Saint West” trending on Twitter, which got me muttering “hell no, they wouldn’t; they couldn’t; would they?”, but I soon snapped out of it because we’re talking Kim and Kanye, so of course they did. I wish them health and happiness…

Agreed, with emphasis on the Jezebel’s-doing-it-again angle.

I’m in mild disagreement with you, if only because this editorial decision’s all on Jezebel, rather than Gawker. They’ve done it before and they’re sure to do it again, unfortunately.

Sounds like a kontender to me. Or, a slight variation that would have everyone scratching their heads: Eastis West.

Now that you mention it....... yeah, and that’s a great point by the way.

It is an important distinction — I spotted it, too — but I’m remembering that, towards the end of the election campaign, Stephen Harper began promising a ban on niqabs in the federal civil service, within the first 100 days of a new Conservative government. I’m pretty sure Jason Kenney started parroting that stance,…