I don’t know much about this case as it happened my sophomore year in college (I had better things to do like drink and not study) and I’ve always tried to avoid sensational stories like this.

I’ve always known the cast-offs were sent to the U.S. and Australia was a settler colony. I didn’t know that the Carolinas were literally the dumping ground. I’m going to order this book before the week’s over.

I’ll have to check this out. I’m from California, but now work in North Carolina. This history of the state actually is comforting to me. I’ve stopped dating permanently in the last year and now I can understand why. While there are a ton of out-of-state transplants in my progressive city, a good portion of the…

There wouldn’t have been, you’re right. I said up thread that this is just another form of control. He had no intention of killing himself. He just wanted to redirect the situation to either keep her from calling the police or from leaving him. These threats are always another form of control.

I din’t mean to second-guess you either.

Actually, it says he cheated on her. I know you’re being sarcastic, but I figured I’d clarify.

Ah. Thank you. I was wondering why I couldn’t find it.

Oh my goodness. I hope you called the police.

I’m a DV survivor. Let’s be honest, the only reason he then threatened to kill himself is so that she wouldn’t call the police or leave him. My ex suddenly became suicidal when I was officially done and on my way out. Threats like that are still a form of control.

In any situation, politicians won’t speak up for women who are abused. But, South Carolinians, definitely won’t. More women are killed because of domestic violence in SC than anywhere else in the nation. I couldn’t find the excellent, seven-piece series the State did on DV, but here’s an article on the numbers from…

Since we’re on the topic of horrible, right-wing women, where the A.J. Delgado pregnancy story that caused chinless wonder Jason Miller to resign as communications chair?

Yeah, she’s super cute and her bullshit levels were about as low as mine.

It’s getting on my nerves a bit, too. He moved all of his portion of the party’s resources to Organizing for America or Organizing for Action (whatever it’s called now) and that didn’t exactly help Sec. Clinton.

Same here. I get that not everyone knows his past career, but it’s so not a put-on how much he likes music and celebrity gossip. It was a running thread throughout Gavin and Stacey. I’m sure he has to learn some of the songs he does for carpool karaoke, but I have a feeling he knows most by heart already because he’s…

It’s my go-to when I need a laugh. I’m from the States, but it was so good. Some of the UK pop culture references, I didn’t get and had to look up, but it was pure comedy.

I really like President Obama, but I don’t think he would have taken him seriously throughout the campaign. While surrogates can say things candidates can’t, Obama often minimized Cheeto Benito’s campaign and made jokes at his expense (as most on the left did, including me). The polling would have been the same and,…

Yeah, I second PetesDragon. My screen name on this site is actually from Gavin and Stacey. It was an amazing show. Actually, Smithy was self-centered and a pop culture fanatic who made a point of reciting lyrics to all kinds of songs in the series. This is part of the bit. His loving George Michael would definitely…

These people are scum. Many of them believe in fake news. I doubt this professor moved the needle any further on their racism.

Excellent point. You need more stars.

Yeah, I went home for the last week and it was way colder and more rainy there than it where I live now on the east coast. Wack.