I don’t mind court ordered treatment but people should be given options. For a lot of people AA is essentially a religious cult. Given it’s history and terrible success rate, it should not be the go-to treatment method. Nor do I think admitting you are helpless and need a god is a good starting point for most people.
And for people who feel it works for them, great! More power to you.
I agree. 12-step programs are all about the shame. They might as well give you a septa with a cow bell instead of a sponsor.
Can someone please take away his press pass? Between the Lochte interview and this, he’s proven that he’s not a journalist by any definition of the word.
Thank you for covering this story.
That’s why I mentioned “enough evidence”. Obviously in a lot of cases there isn’t but if he hit her hard enough to bruise her I’m surprised charges weren’t laid against him.
Are there not laws about this? Here it doesn’t matter if the victim wants to press charges, the cops can do it anyways if there is enough evidence.
Did I say I like Johnny? I think he’s gross and has been for quite a while.
I wouldn’t, certainly not after less than 2 years and especially if I was the one who filed for divorce. If he had done it, I would be OK with her asking but she really should have been skimming off him for months in preparation for her escape. Just my two cents.
I have no idea if there was ever a thing, I just love Vanessa Paradis.
I didn’t know that but now...I concur with Poodletime. EWWW!
OK, in all honesty I wanted her recast even before this. I’m just using it as an excuse.
Yeah, I already didn’t like her very much (#TeamVanessa) but her asking for spousal support is a step too low. At this point I really hope they do some recasting for Justice League.
We celebrated xmas and Easter the way most North Americans do when my kid was young. Lots of gifts, tons of food and plenty of chocolate. Now we volunteer to serve meals at homeless shelters. It seems like the atheist thing to do.
I’m actually the one that told my mom my dad was divorcing her. I didn’t know he hadn’t told her.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of band councils but to characterize them as somehow worse than your average white politician is disingenuous. There is corruption in politics, regardless of race.
Absolutely. I firmly believe that adults are responsible for their own choices in life and should be held accountable for those choices. I also know the absolute despair that exists in remote First Nations communities where everywhere you look you see addiction, abuse and hopelessness with zero resources to help. The…
Alcoholism and suicide are symptoms of a much larger disease called colonialism. We can’t undo anything but the problem is...we are still doing it today! They still have awful access to secondary education, health care, job training, safe adequate housing, clean water, electricity and every other thing most of us take…