It is interesting to me that no one is looking at Charlie Sheen’s dad, Martin. Epitome of a family man. Age is right, Charlie was on the set of Lucas where Haim was reportedly first raped. Martin has a history of being a raging alcoholic. 4 kids, married to his first wife and been married over 50 years. It isn’t…

Martin Sheen.

If my two choices are:

It’s awful. We pretend to care about kids, and yet do many of them are lost and discarded by society.

Agreed.

How can she be Xenophobic when she sounds like she came from Xenu?

You need to warn me before you make jokes that make it impossible for me to breathe.

Oh — Emirjeta Xhelili? Of the Mayflower Xhelilis?

She wasn’t even doing cartwheels - from what I’ve read, she was doing some yoga stretching on a break while her boyfriend was being interrogated. Surprisingly, the super responsible Italian and British press ran with it.

This can also be true for Jews from the Maghreb.

You couldn’t justify Muslim women with what she was wearing? I’m actually amazed by this statement. Muslims make up 25% of the global population — many of whom dress exactly as do those in the countries in which we live. I mean no offence: I enjoyed your article, and adore your commentary and dialogue with other…

same, but I lied to myself for the whole first trimester. I wanted to pretend it really wouldn’t matter or that I’d be JUST as happy for a boy. ANd I’m sure I’d be fine and happy with a boy, but I was SO happy for a girl. I just wanted a girl. Grew up with all boys and felt like I needed some girl energy. Nothing…

That piece is infuriating, full stop.

I just ran across this sickeningly sympathetic Newsweek piece on Owen Labrie from December; it was when he was out on bail, and this interview was apparently planned as the big *~Breaking His Silence~* moment. (I was surprised to see that Jezebel apparently didn’t address it, despite responding to later coverage in Vic…

She is so fucking badass and we should all celebrate her. I went to an asshole prep school and knew douchebags from douchebag families exactly like this piece of shit.

My comment isn't about the French. About a about the American conservatives who see a story like this and support these types of policies.

...and forcing women to remove the clothing they want to be on their bodies isn’t oppressive?

It’s definitely more secular. People only identify as Catholic or Protestant because there parents were. If you’re not attending church, don’t fully understand the beliefs, and don’t live your life according to its principles; you’re not really part of the religion. Less than 16% of the french population goes to…

Conservatives? The French anti-religion laws are generally the work of radical secularists. For some related background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_la….

Europe is so secular, I’m not so sure there are even “christian conservative” politicians in Europe. (or very few)