you mean to tell me that you don’t want to work until the day you die under the thumbs of billionaires because a handful of jerks don’t want to tax the rich?

Also a fun time to remind everyone that we’ve never actually seen a generation retire with the 401k system rather than pensions, and the general assumption is that it’s going to go terribly.

While I don’t personally think Semenya should have been banned, it was a hell of a lot more complicated situation than that.

But... aren’t you a person on the internet who doesn’t care about these stories? Yet here you are, writing comments in the comment section. I don’t ‘care’ about the royal family, per se, but I will admit to being super curious for reasons that I don’t know if I can articulate. I LOVE watching shows about the history…

The *English* love them.

I find him a fascinating figure, if only due to the time and circumstances that he was brought up in. Born when the Ottoman Empire still technically existed, his mother couldn’t raise him and his father wouldn’t - essentially abandoned and unwanted. His sisters stepped up sometimes when it was convenient for them, but…

The Season 2 episode “Paterfamilias” really does an interesting deep dive into Phillip’s childhood while setting up his future as a father to Charles. And the casting of Finn Elliott as a young Prince Phillip is spot-on. Maybe the best resemblance of the entire cast?

Doubt it’ll be that hard hitting objective journalism given how the woman is friends with the couple but I guess that’s the point of doing it really, to get “their side” of why they want privacy from the obsessive media all over the media again.

Anybody who can characterize Amy Fisher as “a Lolita” obviously never read Lolita.

The entire point of the novel is that Humbert’s version of the “truth” is actually revealing the real fact that he is a horrible pedophile that destroyed the life of a young girl who did nothing to deserve it. I think Nabokov realized that at least unconsciously--he trashed the thing a couple chapters in and his wife…

I knew Humbert was a creep from the opening of Lolita. How do people read something completely different? I don’t know what Nabokov has said about his book, but I always thought Humbert was telling a story from the perspective of self-interest and delusion. He thinks he’s the hero of his own romantic story, and any…

Reading this take on Amy Fisher made me think about the story of Lorena Bobbitt and how she was demonized by the tabloid press while they gave John Wayne Bobbitt a pass. He got a short adult film career and notoriety out of it. What did Lorena get? Why, a barrage of name-calling and accusations that she “hurt her…

Why any women would fight over any dude in Blink 182 is beyond comprehension.

Depending on the area, Catholic schools may be the only private schools within a given distance that are significantly better than the public schools. People going to Catholic schools are not required to be Catholic in most diocese.

‘cannot get enough of the necessary material to create the boob part’

Catholics are judgy? I'm thinking evangelicals are super judgy, personally. That's coming from an atheist though, so...yeah.

Never talk to the police without a lawyer.
Never, ever, talk to the Sun.

If you find yourself living in a community of assholes, sending your kids to a school run by an asshole, it’s maybe a good idea to find a better community.

Same. I was once like that because I didn't know better. But when I started hanging out with people who weren't terrified by meat that in the wrong light had a hint of pink to it, it's like night and day. It's why they need ketchup and steak sauce and salt because they cook all the flavor out

I have, and they hurt me a little inside everytime they do.