But come on: here’s a country of one billion people who you see as so powerful that you’ll change a character’s ethnicity to fit your perceptions of their taste, but who you also see as so incredibly stupid that merely “acknowledging that Tibet is a place” will render them so apoplectic with politicized rage that…

That would be my nightmare!!! I’d rather live somewhere with neighbors who could potentially hear my screams.

Yeah, so you can be killed by a woods-dwelling survivalist psycho in peace.

It’s a little weird but who cares? And the fact that they’ve been together for 15 years kind of speaks to the fact that it isn’t just a boy toy situation.

Honestly, if there were a gossip item every time my husband and I had words... well I wouldn’t need to release a visual album is all I’m saying. Couples have spats. The idea that every argument is a divorce in the making is NON. SENSE.

This relationship looks exhausting.

I’m still pissed off that this shooting, which the shooter admitted was an attack on women, did not get a ton of attention. People focused on the fact that it was in a movie theater more than the fact that the shooter was an admitted misogynist. I mean the host of a radio show even said that the shooter frequently…

The entire family wasn't killed. Just 4 households of family members. I read (in USA Today, I think) that they were found by another relative. I believe the 3 year olds grandparents are still alive.

Yeah, I have to wonder...is any member of the family missing? Or gone away somewhere and due to return? A recent separation/divorce? He/she/They spared all the children but the 16-year-old. My crazy theories include a religious cult, or an abuse/incest survivor.

Because they were rural you assume this? More like likely it was a wirhing the same family than from without.

OK I was going to be like “Who let that troll out of the greys?” but your response made it worth it.

You never get over it. When I was 5, my dad worked nights so I slept in the bed with my mom. At some point in the night, she had an epileptic seizure. I remember waking up to use the bathroom and shaking her with no response. I used the bathroom anyway, proud that I could turn on the light by myself. I returned to bed…

A good friend of mine died suddenly at 38 of a massive heart attack. Undiagnosed heart condition, it turned out. He lived with a woman most of his friends hated, and they all blamed her for not calling an ambulance fast enough. Finally, his mother told them to cut that shit out. The guy dropped dead. There was no way…

So unfair! All your working out and steamed vegetables and still no one likes you! And everyone liked her.

There was an article recently, in the New York Times maybe? A woman this age or younger. She woke up in the night with nausea and her husband insisted she go to the hospital. She thought he was overreacting, it was just nausea, but it turned out she was having a heart attack - the type that’s fatal unless detected…

Some people have no sense of humanity when they put things on the internet. Sadly, there are a boatload of things that could have killed her in her sleep that have nothing to do with drugs, like an aortic dissection or a heart attack or a blood clot. These things happen infrequently but regularly to folks her age.

Oswalt is one of my favourite comedians, he seems like such a genuinely nice and funny person in real life, and I think that’s clearly proved in the sincere outpouring of love on Twitter right now. Hearing the way he talks about his wife and daughter in his stand-up made this gut wrenching for me to read. That poor,…

It's the seven year old daughter that got me. Fuck sake.

I feel terrible for Patton. He seems like a decent guy. I feel especially bad because of all the comments I’ve seen about how it must have been a drug overdose. People just assume you don’t die young unless you’re on drugs, but that’s just not the case. A few years ago, a friend of mine just dropped dead at the age of…

Just last weekend I read her very long profile of the Golden State Killer (aka EAR/ONS). The piece was as much about the crime as it was her own experiences investigating and what the true crime genre meant to her. She was a very engaging writer, and after reading I planned to spend a lot of time on her own website…