You think a sex tape will bring her down? Releasing the sex tape will make her more famous and get her a bigger following.

I don't want to be lumped in with the racists — ESPECIALLY my family omg — and I don't know how to demonstrate that I am not. I don't want to be a White Savior, but I also don't want to pretend that I don't know how hard black Americans have it.

No, I'm not victim blaming but at the same time, you have to wonder: what the fuck? Neither of them thought of telling anyone? I can understand the actual victim being too traumatized but what about the other woman? I mean, I'm not even talking about going to the police but they never thought to tell the hosts of the…

He wanted her to have his kid, he just didn't want to raise it.

True, the tests aren't faulty. However, the people who get false positives are encouraged by doctors and genetic counselors to get additional screenings before doing anything else (so if they choose to abort, it really should not be based upon these results). It's the people who get the false negatives who don't get…

If someone called me up and asked me if I believed in the Virgin* Birth, I would struggle with an answer. It makes no sense, scientifically speaking. However, the story—that a powerful man** raped a fifteen year old—does make sense. #IBelieveMary #YesAllDeities

Not to mention that none of the women terminated their pregnancies. A better headline might be "Faulty Prenatal Screening Tests May Result in People Carrying To Term a Child With a Fatal Genetic Abnormality"

Based on the story, the headline should be "Faulty Prenatal Screening Tests May Lead to a False Sense of Security" as the only tragedy was the woman who was told her child did not have a severe genetic abnormality, did not get followup testing, and then had to watch her newborn die a painful death. None of the people…

All the people profiled in the story who received an abnormal result did get followup screening tests. No terminations occurred.

As others have pointed out, these are screening tests and genetic counselors are very clear that the results are not definitive and, in the cases where there are abnormalities, they recommend follow up tests (tests which, yes, which are invasive and carry a slight risk of miscarriage, which is why people choose to do…

if someone doesn't receive their shade, does it really exist?

Cats...yes, I know that regular house cats are no match for CITY RATS (I think Robert Sullivan likened it to putting his 150 pound butt in the ring with Muhammed Ali in his prime), but maybe if all the cats in all the shelters in New York were to be adopted by Conde Nast the place would be less appealing to rats? I…

Doctor's Without Borders

I once taught a woman to knit and the problem was the only time she ever worked on her scarf was late at night, after she came home from entertaining customers (she was in sales). After a few weeks she came to me with the most bizarre, M C Escher-esque blob of yarn and neither of us had any idea what she had done.

I wonder how many of them were even having sex with them—I remember reading n article about the 8 girlfriends and then watching Girls Next Door and thinking it was obviously Hef preferred drinking whiskey with his buddies. I always got the impression the "girlfriends" were more about him presenting an image to the…

I wonder how many people might not mention it because it made them feel uneasy about the entire endeavor and their participation in it. I imagine that being an audience member/participant in a piece of art like that would make one feel very ashamed and the less one said about it the better.

We don't know what she did to him. We don't know if he was made to physically penetrate her or if she physically penetrated him or what.

Yes, but I think a lot of that has to do with him getting into the mental space to do this sort of performance and then the sort of bargaining/rationalization one does with one's self. I can think of a number of reasons he didn't speak to his girlfriend when she finally entered the space—he was in shock, he was…

Kim told her mom that she and Kanye are arguing and Kris said that she better fix it

Yes, the bodice is unfortunate. I feel like she could have made a narrower train and used those beads making a more substantial and prettier bodice. However, I suspect this is more a labor of love and proof of concept piece. She probably doesn't really expect royalty or celebrities to wear this dress, but she hopes…