Spent 4 yeas doing stuff for a Philosophy degree, so take it from me: it's nonsense. Almost semantically moot. As if Big Willy Style raised a child by exclusively repeating the mantra "you're a genius" and letting "Waking Life" fill in the gaps while he was off being Hancock.

Could you provide a short list of the "provocative and interesting" things he says? Because I see a kid who is obviously intelligent enough to remember snippets of the philosophy soup he's been fed, but lacks the perspective to articulate any of it. It's a big phrase salad.

I mostly agree with you. I too hate the canned responses (which really are a result of the media sensationalizing/overanalyzing everything that comes out of every celebrity's mouth). But, these kids aren't actually saying anything interesting or valuable, because the only reason they are where they are (albums,…

When the socialists are done finishing your country off, perhaps your perception of what constitutes "sketchy" will change. Or perhaps not.

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

What's the point of having clearly defined rules if the refs are going to skew them anyway? I get that they want to protect players, so why don't they just make those hits explicitly illegal in the first place. I just don't see the point of giving someone parameters for what they can and can't do, then penalizing…

You want to "skew toward" fewer injuries by penalizing hits that aren't illegal because the legal hit on occasion leads to injury in a sport where injuries are going to occur if contact is allowed. So, my response to that would be to disallow contact, because as we've all seen, concussions occur often on even…

Come on , son. You can do much better than that.

Actually, I think we call them "internships".

"McClain's mother told them that he had fled the state. He was arrested three hours later in Tuscaloosa, so evidently he didn't get too far"

What the hell point are you trying to make? Did you read the article? The one where because someone's a criminal, Jezebel laughed about them being the victim of rape at fucking eight years old?

Baltimore Ravens: "The 15 year-old boy deeply regrets the role he played during the incidents."

No. My daughter is straight-up the weirdest kid I've ever known—in example: she's four and prefers bleu cheese to chocolate, she likes to hug mylar balloons when we go to the grocery store, she insists on matching silverware, and for her final phase of potty training, she asked to plant a garden as a reward.

Somehow,…

I was about to write something similar. This isn't a one-off incident. Don't even get me started on her mother's reaction. I'll just say good ole Mum missed a grand opportunity to explain boundaries, that we have and deserve autonomy over our own bodies, and should respect other's, etc.

Masturbating in the presence of a child is illegal in many states.

Sharing her story? that's fine. Sharing her sister's? that's not so cool.

Just because it's an autobiography doesn't mean you have to chronicle every shit you took in 9th grade. This whole brouhaha is happening because Lena has been conditioned to believe that everything she does is just SO QUIRKY SO ZANY SO LENA, and she can't understand that it comes across as weird and off-putting to…

Why are we acting like this is only about her touching her 1 year old sister's vagina when she was 7 and not also about emotionally coercing her sister into sleeping in her bed and then masturbating while she sleeps? And about paying her sister in candy to give her long kisses on the lips? And about paying her sister…

"So "marriage" is the new term for kidnapping, imprisonment and sexual assault?"