We curly-headed ladies - esp those of us with coarse hair - had to sit that one out. Sadly, Mariah couldn’t do it even with fantastic hair people on her payroll. I complained to a friend at the time how much I wanted that hairstyle and she said, “so get it!” and I said, “I did.”

Mine too, but then again, I’m just a normal human and not a goddess, so there’s that ;-).

I am addicted to my neighborhood Buy Nothing group. I recently scored an antique gossip bench - for free! I’ve been looking for one forever and I’m super psyched about this. I’ve also gotten a giant box of keurig cups and a giant box of splenda. I posted some ISO’s and last year I scored enough pairs of shorts for my…

Whatintheefuck?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

I am guilty of being THE audience for this kind of stuff. I watch (and read) serial killer crap and have since I was in junior high school. Much has been written about the phenomenal interest in the “genre,” and I’m not sure it’s all about the readers and viewers being bad people. (I’m agreeing with everything you’ve…

Exactly. Ted Bundy wasn’t that smart, and if he’d been born 40 years later, he would have been caught a lot sooner.

Seconded, particularly because if you actually listen and look at serial killers — even the super interesting splashy “charming” or I-used-to-dress-up-as-a-clown ones — their lives are a combination of childhood trauma and early-adult narcissistic delusions of grandeur that come up against a wall of staggering…

Not to apologize for this genre, which is certainly icky, but isn’t it a pretty well-established fact (from cops, witnesses and people who knew him socially) that Bundy was fairly charming and good-looking (though it’s amazing what was considered hot in the 70s), and that’s why he was able to talk women into going…

What I can’t stand about the mythologizing of serial killers is the prevailing belief that they must be “special” to have been able to kill x number of people or a real genius to be able to get away with it.

I’ve read that before about Japan. I wouldn’t be surprised if it hits a little differently for Japanese Americans in the States, though, with our general history of racism against Asians and Asian-Americans and our specifically horrendous history of Japanese internment camps. 

Hahahaaaaaa she’s the Columbus of ska music! Amazing. In her mind ska only started when while people got into it.

I’ve been around here long enough that this isn’t the first pass at this story I’ve read ... but this is the best effort to date.

“I’ve been around forever. I started my band because we were really influenced by ska, which was a movement that happened in the late ‘70s, and it was really all about people coming together.”

Gwen is terrified to grow up. Literally wearing the same clothes and same look and sound from 25 years ago and simpering next to her “aw shucks, trucks” fiancé. Critically appraising her past choices is impossible as it’s threatening to her frozen sense of self. I don’t know what scared this woman who had everything…

“We JuSt HaD sO mUcH mOrE fReEdOm entitlement.”

Yes. This map is slightly dated (NY, for instance added a prohibition in 2019), but here’s the states that as of recently did not have laws preventing officers from engaging in such practices.

This definitely goes against the bullshit “bad apple” defense for cops.  It’s not just a few bad apples; it’s the whole fucking system.  Rotten from the inside out. 

It bears repeating that while the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act criminalizes any sexual relationship between officials and inmates because inmates cannot legally give staff consent, FindLaw was reporting as recently as the end of 2019 that 32 states were still allowing police to have supposedly consensual sex with…

There is a cop like this in every town in the South. I can tell you an incident in which I reported my former partner, a white man in his 50's, for requesting oral sex from an offender in order to get a longer curfew. I can tell you of an incident in which an officer granted early parole releases for those that would…

‘He claims that this proposed commission is just Democrats trying to “debate things that occurred in the past.”’