send her to detention, have a talk with her, but arresting??? its overboard

“But this lovely family has cared for her for her whole life and is just fighting to keep their CHILD!”

Exactly my thoughts. If they truly cared for her welfare they would have put on a brave face and smiled and told her that she’s going to live in a super cool place with fun people and that they will try to visit her as often as possible. Instead they chose to completely traumatize her with a media circus and…

The Inca practiced human sacrifice too. You can visit the mummies of some of the offerings if you’re ever in Peru.

It really sucks that the custody exchange was such a circus, and Lexi was exposed to the foster family crying and screaming, and random strangers showing up needlessly to add to the din. A 6-year-old can’t possibly process all that in a healthy way — it must have seemed intensely frightening and confusing. I’m…

It’s normal for anyone. I say this as a professional dog walker. If you have a dog that is on the larger size, you should just assume people are not going to be comfortable with your dog going up to them, for the safety of other people and for the safety of your dog. If your dog is out in a public place, you should…

I don’t know how their particular marriage was, but the whole alleged woman beating/child beating makes me think no.

My husband and I would hardly ever argue if one of us was dead.

Or nah.

Thank you. I didn’t want to be the first one to say it but what was the spiritual awakening exactly? That she likes mauve nail polish? Is the nail polish a metaphor that she can appreciate the new things the friend introduced her to but just like the friendship is temporary? And... she journals? I feel like this is…

Shit no, rarely does a public high school kid make it into an IVY league school. It’s not like stars hollow even had AP programs.

That poor kid and his poor sisters, who were basically just told via major news outlets that they’re not good enough.

Holy shit, this is too much fuckedupedness for one story. Needs a male heir? Replacing the person she killed driving drunk? Aaaahhhh!

I feel like Obama must kind of feel the way I feel when I try to get my kids to eat anything. “Okay guys, here. I know you like this. It’s bland, inoffensive, yet substantive and you have definitely eaten something like this before. Now chew and swallow. GODDAMNIT WHY ARE YOU SAYING NO!?!?! YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO BE…

I’m glad she made sure to point out that the models had safe words and gestures.

I wonder though if most of the women polled were looking at it from the perspective of “this mostly hurts women through coercive practices and trafficking and therefore it’s really bad” rather than “those slutwhores”. In which case, yeah, it makes sense that women would view it more unfavorably since we’re the ones…

Personally I think you should tip even if service isn’t that great. Unless the waitstaff is rude it’s best to give something.

Even in the real court system, you aren’t entitled to have a hearing on your appeal. You are of course entitled to file a motion for appeal, but courts are still allowed to deny those motions if they don’t find any basis for it. It would be problematic if he weren’t even allowed to appeal the decision, but unless he…

“More serious crime” takes precedence. And I think a lot of cops think most rape allegations are bullshit. So they don’t put a priority on it, shelve it, and move on to other things.