Had the Church stopped the predators and isolated them from society — well, it still would have been wrong, for the predators should have been arrested, convicted, and jailed—but it would not have been the evil that the Church actually committed by protecting and promoting them.

Nothing suggests that there are a greater rate of rapists and pedophiles in the Catholic Church than in secular society.

I’m all for letting priests marry but these men don’t rape children and teenagers because they can’t marry. If anything that would just lead to them having affairs with adults (which absolutely happens.)

The absurdity of remaining a Catholic now! I mean, it was absurd on any but “historical” grounds since the Vatican was founded, but to still pretend that this organization is connected with any “divinity” is past the “absurd farce” phase and into the “I worship Evil and call it Good” finality.

I won’t hold my breath waiting for the next great Carole Radziwill production.
I’m sure when she actually had a job she worked, and her first book was a success but in her time as a housewife she has always seemed pretty lazy to me.
She talks a lot about writing but doesn’t actually seem to do it much.

Could you imagine this with an ED drug?

Right? Off color or totally black humor jokes in awful taste from the stupider times of 2008 are one thing, which I’d be more inclined to dismiss as past isolated misdeeds.

Right, it’s like...ok, so a franchise whose “phase 1" is headed by Robert Downey Jr, whose other franchise unapologetically made another Johnny Depp movie, hired Gunn to direct these movies knowing exactly who he was, and counting on the fact that he’s a different person now who wouldn’t cause them further…

Right? Deep Thoughts, by Andy Dwyer.

Right?? I feel like he gets more Jesusy (and less likeable) each passing day.

Thank you!  She definitely looks much better now that her stitches are out and her hair’s grown back in, but for a week or two things were looking pretty grim.

Hi all, how have you been? :)

There’s a standoff with hostages at Trader Joe’s in Silverlake, CA apparently. I’m just learning of it. Holy shit. Listening now and a teen killed his grandmother then took hostages. I’m pet/housesitting in Santa Monica this weekend and it’s the first thing that popped up. I hope everyone is safe and they can take him…

The surprise appearance was especially unexpected given Depp’s recent personal troubles. A recent Rolling Stone profile presented him as frequently inebriated and bedeviled by financial issues, some of them related to his divorce from Amber Heard, who accused the actor of abuse.

“Thriving” is really the best word.

That was one of the happiest and most nervous moments of my entire life.

HIPAA violations can lead to criminal prosecution.

A pox on anyone who hires him, period.  He should be relegated to being an Uber driver for the rest of his working lifetime.

I’m just heartbroken for her. Going in for her first prescription with all the hopes and happiness that could entail, to just have it so derailed and so miserable.