Your article is misleading. The girlfriend’s lawyer (Throckmorton) was concerned about her safety and called the police because she told him she was going to commit suicide. That’s why there was concern about her sitting with Warner’s guns and why she didn’t want to be around them. And that’s why she had to undergo a…

That bridesmaid may be the funniest unintentional comedian ever.

I was supposed to have a wedding in March 2021, and for a while (over summer mostly) I kept thinking “well, if people don’t want to travel or attend, I completely understand, it is their choice.” But as the date crept closer and things only got worse, I increasingly grew uncomfortable with the ethics of holding a…

Also, the podcast Tom Brown’s Body (produced by Texas Monthly and narrated by Skip Hollingsworth) is absolutely fascinating and similarly well done. I just wish they’d gone deeper into the small town dynamics.

If anyone hasn’t yet heard of Texas Monthly, it is hands-down one of the best sources for fascinating longform stories. They’re written incredibly well, to the point where I find myself clicking on stories that I normally don’t care about at all and am entirely sucked in. Some personal favorites in case you have some…

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Another crucial problem is that they tried to draw inferences about the causal effects of mentorship which were not justified by their data. They even acknowledged the issue, then went ahead and pretended they had identified a causal effect. And the outcome they focused on was not necessarily a good indicator of what…

The sheer laziness of this study is breathtaking. Experienced male authors have higher citations and female researchers that co-author with the experienced males have higher citations. The established predominance of male researchers in STEM fields is just taken as a given, like the sun rising in the east and water is…

Well, thank God this trend towards clickbait in all areas of publishing and professionalism hasn’t led to anything appallingly dangerous so far, right? *glares at The Lancet, sharpening a knife*

Mormon here and the “Mormon royalty” claims are really funny. If there is Mormon royalty, it is not these women. It’d be people like Donny Osmond or Mitt Romney or a famous athlete who everyone knows. The episode covered how the women are “royalty” and it was SO FUNNY (but only to Mormons...). First, the claim that…

This was my question. I don’t think I’ve read a paragraph that just got more and more incomprehensible and self-centered that didn’t end in a WH official getting fired. 

I also find it a bit silly for people to click on an anonymous Halloween story contest, read through all the stories and then go “boo, they’re all fake! Ghosts aren’t real.” Who cares? It’s a story contest, not a courtroom testimony. Mine happened to be real, but of course I’m open to mundane explanations. If you…

I thought the Uncle Billy story was pretty humanizing actually, it was very evocative and well written I thought

It was an interview on a podcast not a press release.

I hate pumpkin spice lattes. And I am totally ok with pillorying them- so Puritan, for one thing, to put anything in the stocks and punish. I do get that as a writer paid to observe American culture, you’ve gotten the tone of pretzel logic -needed to observe a culture you’re part of- spot on. A few things,…

I am 100% a white suburban housewife who loves fall and sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes. IDK how this article got into Thanksgiving? Which, while technically in the fall is just a dress rehearsal for Christmas. The secret is, I live in Georgia. In the fall, it is the end of 4+ months of temperatures over 90 and all…

No, it’s a very good question! This was about 24 years ago and I had developed an intense interest in Buddhism and wanted to learn more, specifically the Tibetan traditions..mostly because that’s what I knew most about.

Eh I feel like he noticed that although Bonnie chuckled at first, it became painful for her (you could see her face start to drop before he said anything). He was right that it was too soon and they weren’t ready to laugh about it yet. I think he was just sticking up for his wife. He said something like “I can see…

Yup, her over-the-top attention seeking and weirdly sexualized responses to his bullshit when they first met were red flags for me too. I think she’s just as narcissistic as he is and saw the cult as an ego boost and a chance to wield power just like he did. There was no way she wasn’t going down with that ship.

I’m going to keep specific details a bit vague because the following happened at a summer camp that I have a ton of personal ties to that still exists. I don’t want to fuck up their existence. So: I’ll say it’s on a big lake in New England, it’s rather popular, and its heavily religiously oriented. (Yeah, I know – my…