Austin Rivers heard they were coming and dropped to the floor.

Three dudes to beat up Austin Rivers? I’m still taking injured Patrick Beverly over all three of those dudes

Come on coach, there’s like an 11 year old kid right behind you.

My reading of that situation was that it was all consensual and he supported her and the child financially along with the money he was paying her for her maid work. Not saying it couldn’t have been a skeevy power imbalance thing, it just seems odd that at the time (when a powerful man basically could get away with…

there’s always one...

The girl who escaped is 17 but looked 10. Think about how you looked in fourth grade as opposed to how you looked as a junior in high school. She still had the courage and faculties to run and ask for help.

I think this quote is apt. Because I suspect we are going to find out that the neighbors suspected; that social services suspected; that their “church” members suspected. But that the entire system did nothing.

Social worker here. You’d be surprised how shitty state agencies run when it involves the health and welfare of children. I would encourage you to look up Danieal Kelly. One of the most extreme cases of neglect I’ve read about. I seriously reconsidered working with kids after reading about the case. Also, you’ll going…

That’s Extremely Worrying: The US School System

Records show that David Allen Turpin had received state approval to operate a private school out of his home

THIS. The calls for those fourth downs are on Haley.

The Jags offense “only” scored 35 of those points, but yes, the Steelers D was terrible.

You’d think a guy in his 14th season as a QB would have the experience to audible out from a bullshit stupid call into something more appropriate to the situation. Manning did it, Brady does it, Favre would actually look over at the coach and dare him to say anything about it.

As much fun (and narrative sense) it makes to blame those stupid 4th down plays, the reason the Steelers lost this game is that their defense blew nuts. The offense scored 42 points even with all those miscues. It’s the most ever scored in a home playoff loss.

Aaaaaand we’re done here for the day.

Consent?

I don’t want Oprah to run for political office for a number of reasons, the foremost being that it would be horrifying to see the abuse to which she would be subjected. I’d always said that if Hillary ran for president, we’d see a shit storm of misogyny the likes of which....well, we all saw what did happen,and it was…

In Massachusetts, we call that the Tom Menino Theory of Governance: competence, not charisma.

I can’t speak about Neeson, but I do think that the allegations against Keillor are thin to the point of nonsense.