That was my first—and only—thought.

There was a similar situation in Canada, where an evangelical Christian university went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada because the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario refused accreditation based on Trinity Western University’s so-called community covenant. They lost:

Just so you know, I am stealing this line and calling it my own.

I’ve always enjoyed your writing but you’ve really outdone yourself with this one. There are so many quotable passages that I’m bookmarking it.

I know. I can’t believe he actually said it out loud, with no sense of self-awareness or of the moment.

Dear Brodka,

How is it that Shia LaBeouf gets to make a vanity project about his own life? Isn’t this the same guy who:

You’re absolutely right about the spoken vernacular being so different; but in the end it’s still French.

I get you on this. I speak Parisian French too, and my best friend (who is a Quebecer) teases me that “Tu parles la gueule en trou de cu de poule”.

Not sure, but I think he was on another balcony, on the other side, separated by a wall between them. If that’s the case, it was probably a very awkward angle, making it even riskier to pull the kid up as Gassama was able to do.

I can’t speak Québécois, but they can understand French if they hear it.

Is it not possible to get rid of the one asshole and keep these people employed?

What fuckery is this???

If I give her the benefit of the doubt and say she didn’t know what Harvey did to make her brand famous, then obviously I don’t think that she should lose her ability to support herself and her children.

Do you think Mamie Gummer got her first audition on her own merits or do you think her mother being Meryl Streep had something to do with it? How about Riley Keough? Or Dakota Johnson? Or Scott Eastwood? Do you think Diane Von Furstenberg benefits from being married to Barry Diller?

Your comment is spot on. Particularly given how importantly food is linked to the concept of family in Armenian culture (not unique, I grant you); it’s extremely time-consuming and effort intensive to prepare and often involves mothers, daughters, grandmothers and great-grandmothers working together to prepare big…

International...we love her in Canada too!

I’m from Toronto, so I speak from experience: Do not underestimate Toronto’s ability to fuck up something good. It’s a long and hallowed tradition:

Actually, my ex wasn’t awful MOST of the time and he’s not a bad person; he’s just a shit some of the time. And that’s the point I’m trying to make: It’s not unreasonable for Chapman to have been blind to the true depth of his evil because he likely didn’t direct it at her, and we just don’t expect that of people. If…

I’m not excusing Weinstein’s behaviour or suggesting that his threats are acceptable pressure. What I’m saying is that it’s not unusual for people in any business to leverage power to promote their own ends. And that it wasn’t unreasonable for Chapman to assume that Weinstein was using his leverage vs. what he was…