What a shit show.  I first read this not on Jezebel, and it seemed clear to me that the adoptive parents were trying to push the highest of the possible age ranges to justify abandoning her.  Now, is it certain that this random Ukrainian woman the Daily Mail found is definitely the mother without DNA testing, no, but…

Yeah, I don’t understand the article.  It doesn’t go into why the bill is bad, which is a useful discussion to have.  Just that...it would be bad for the House to pass another bill while conducting impeachment investigations?

I think it is a bit of a Catch-22. They make their wealth through conspicuous consumption, so it is not like an oil baron who would have no need to pose for Instagram likes.  But there is a big difference between posing in front of a beautiful beach and posing with several million dollars of cars.

Right, it is weird that people are calling it the OK sign, which it is not.  

To my cursory knowledge of this case, it seems like the medical evidence is not clearcut, and it seems awful convenient that they changed her age to 22 so they had absolutely no responsibility for her anymore.  

It sounds like from the excerpts that this happened after her miscarriage too when she maybe was using again or at least very vulnerable.  While he could have been manipulating her at a vulnerable point, it also sounds like she had a lot of addiction issues over the course of the marriage and I am sure that wasn’t a…

I first read that story there and I had more of the impression that the parents were lying and had abandoned a young girl.  But it left out a lot of the parents’ side of the story.  Now I am very confused.  

If everyone be best, does being best even mean anything?

We had 15% of our total population in our small rural town turn out for the strike.  It may not sound like much, but imagine if 15% of NYC turned out.  

I participated in today’s climate strike with my young daughter with a mix of hope and despair. It is not only climate change - the recent studies showing how we have basically halved the total number of birds and mammals and insects, not even looking at extinction, since the year I was born just leave me wondering…

Yeah, I think 14 days seems reasonable.  

I agree she has never truly recovered.  She always has a haunted look in her eye.  But I am glad that she seems to be getting some care and companionship and time with her kids.  I think having some work, if it is low pressure is probably better most years than having nothing to do. 

Those bodysuits just flattened my non-existent boobs and exacerbated the fact that I have no waist. I was a rectangle with a wedgie.  And funnily enough, the only one-piece swimsuit I wear now is an L.L. Bean one.

See, our toddler named her stuffed owl Hooters, but it was extra hilarious since she came up with that unprompted.  

“Live to give.”  Man, can I invite his parents over so they can give me parenting lessons?

I could fully believe that he had been interested in her for a while, mistakenly thought she was into him too and when drunk thought up some excuse to get her over and make his move. But once she says no and tries to leave, that is not a misunderstanding.

See, as a white person I actually know what octoroon and quadroon mean, but I have no idea WTF Blanc means, and if there used to be a difference between White American, Aryan and Blanc.  Although I am having weird flashbacks to my WW2 history class and I think Hitler classified Aryans and Nordic differently for sure,…

I never suffered from emotional or physical abuse, but I definitely disassociated myself to deal with my parents frequent fighting, alcoholism and my intense fear of the dark. As an adult, I have quite a bit of depersonalization/derealization mixed in with my anxiety and depression. It is really hard for me to wrap my…

It is hard to find really well run land reform movements but he really managed to fuck it up.  

I mean, I was a shy kid and have always hated pictures being taken of me, but I do think there is something more.  Makes even more sense that Melania was really reluctant to drag him out of his stable situation in NYC.