30 years? My best friend's father (white male) shot and killed a man simply because the man owed him money for drugs. He only spent 10 years in prison.

A 30 year prison sentence... isn't that what marriage is anyway?

Jeanne Marie is a Bryn Mawr grad (and I believe she was on the rugby team). I don't know her personally but we have mutual friends and her story has been going around Facebook for a few days. I am in awe of her.

Grown people need to be explicitly told that a certain lifestyle is out of their price range? Really? When I window shop the designer flagship stores on Madison Ave. in NYC I need to be told that I can't afford that clothing? The stores should put a sign out front saying "99% of the US population cannot afford these…

Ok, too funny but. . .

My one friend goes all kinds of on-and-on about her sexy husband and how awesome he is and all this saccharin stuff over and over, right?

When my husband and I are on FB, I bust on him, and he busts on me. Like, BURNS online. It's hilarious.

So, my friend writes to me that she's certain my…

Gwyneth Paltrow wanted to marry a rock star, so she went out and found the safest, tamest possible rock star to marry.

Trust me - no one ever plans on getting involved with an abuser. They don't abuse you on the first date. Abuse slowly happens like a dial being turned up, while they wage a covert war against your self esteem/life. Abusers are amazing manipulators - they wouldn't abuse you if you just treated them "right" or learned…

As I get older, the more I believe in walking away from the first sign of abusive or toxic behaviour, in friendships and relationships. And I'd advise anyone not to get seriously invested in a relationship until you've had a chance to really know them, see how they deal with conflict, etc. There are just too many…

Welcome to abusive relationships, where the abuser usually starts out as charming and can turn the charm on when they want, and gaslighting makes you think when they lash out it's your fault.

Maybe it's because I'm old and bitter, but I would just drop a friend who ran her mouth like that about my boobs, or anything else about me. It's not my job to teach people healthy relationship skills or to stick around while they figure it out on their own.

Yes! I've been in one of those relationships but the thing was, she lied and lied about me to everyone. She would flip out at literally nothing. I once shrugged my shoulders which turned into a 3 day argument. It lasted about 4 months before I realised she was creating drama but it took me two years to convince people…

So true! Although sometimes there's the opposite, who would walk in every day with a new appalling story ("He read my journal and is harassing me about my ex-boyfriend" "He got drunk and told me he was never sexually attracted to me" "He deleted every male contact in my phone"), bitch about him for hours, and would…

You're friend needs to grow up and end the relationship. He knows he's leading her on, which is a dick thing to do, no matter how flawed she may be.

The same thing happened to me. I also found those same women were incredibly quick to say "you should leave him" when we were having problems because they wanted to believe that once you're with "the one" everything will be easy and you'll never fight.

Well, poorly mixed Cosmos are also a culprit.

I call this "Sex and The City" syndrom. A LOT of my single friends sit around dissecting everything men have said to them in the last week and It makes me want to scream because MEN ARE JUST HUMAN BEINGS NOT ALIENS. It's this really bizzare form of othering that completely prevents them from seeing the men as human…

I think by "fucked up," you meant "magnificent."

Wouldn't it be fucked up if, inexplicably, Courtney Love is right and the media begins to grant her all of this credibility on aviation disasters, and she starts showing up to FAA hearings in ill-fitting Versace dresses, high on crushed Opana, delivering her Cheeto-breathed congressional testimony through a haze of…

The worst part is the recruitment of the CEO's wife as some kind of shadow agent, intimidating the women (and who knows, some of the men too.) It's like Betty from Mad Men "unofficially" working for his agency.

Fresh out of law school I found myself in a difficult position with a lazy secretary. After I criticized her poor work and repeated lateness, she went to my male boss and cried. I was called in for a meeting with her and my boss, where she sat doe eyed and tearful. I fired her. My boss was stunned, and later remarked…