I teach economics to HS students, and I think it’s both interesting and instructive to hear about the financial reality of being a working actor. Sure, she’s rich and only 24, but $3M for a house in a city where the median price is north of $1M isn’t outrageous, and all of the costs she talks about (plus taxes) are…

There’s a writer for “Grey’s Anatomy” who was recently exposed as being the poster child for this sort of activity. For years she claimed to be a cancer survivor, and even got her job on the show by leveraging sympathy for her condition — she never had cancer. She said she was abused by her brother — there’s no…

The article I read with the timeline of their relationship seemed blurry around whether the directing came at the start of their relationship or after.

1. She still has to go to the airport to get to her private jet, mingling briefly with normals, 2. First class has separate security and boarding, she would not be standing in line with any normals.

As I posted upstream, I’ve seen the chaos posed when a C-list celebrity shows up at an airport. In my case, it was one of the guys from Storage Wars, back when it was still broadcasting new episodes.

The last thing that anyone needs at LAX is hundreds of people mobbing some dude and making it nigh-impossible to get to…

You missed the point but I’ll assume you’re in good faith so here’s a quick explain for why owning the jet is way worse than chartering one.

It’s a matter of priority. From the perspective of the owner of the plane, why own a plane if it stays on the ground most of the time? Why not loan it out to other people or rent it out to offset the cost of maintenance, etc. To be clear, as a pleb I would say, don’t own a fucking plane in the first place.

Swift is an extreme example of celebrity so ok. Most A-listers can fly commercial because they can wait in a first class lounge. They board last and deplane first. Some airports even have a separate terminal for rich and famous eg Private Suite at LAX. There is a membership fee and a fee each time they use it. They…

Ya, I am no Taylor Swift fans, but with all the talk about how crappy air travel already is for most people, I am pretty sure the minute Taylor Swift sets foot in an airport, with the intent of trying to take a commercial flight, every departure for that day is going to be delayed.

To be fair, Taylor Swift taking a commercial flight would not end well for everyone involved. People lose their shit when they see c-list celebrities. An A-lister like Swift...not a good outcome.

Don’t know about this - Drake is taking just as much, if not more, flack for being atop this list and then trying to defend it by saying that it’s OK because there aren’t other people on his flights.

Most of those dudes are probably borrowing Swift’s jet, and don’t actually own one themselves, despite their braggadocious bars. Owning a private jet is really an option available only to the richest celebs. You can’t just be Kendrick Lamar famous, you have to be Jay Z famous, or at least Drake famous.

For those unfamiliar with general aviation, you generally can’t/don’t just park your jet on a ramp somewhere like a car and leave it wherever you happen to be. So if your home airport doesn’t have the facilities or hangar space (or even a slot on the ramp) it’s going to have to shuttle between it’s home airport and…

Uhh… isn’t that worse?

I mean it’s possible she messed with the will- but also perfectly likely that scumbag screwed Carol AND his ex-family out of the will in favor of a new floozy. The ex-wife sounded unhinged with “sure he cheated on me every other day of our marriage but that hussy made him *leave* me”

Yeah, I don’t really take the true crime theories of Joe Exotic seriously - nor her husband’s other family members who are insistent that she killed him and rewrote the will to fuck them over and that’s the only possible explanation as to why they didn’t get a bigger inheritance. I thought it was fucking bizarre that…

*A few different wildlife experts came out in defense of it, that should say. I should proofread my comments.

Yeah- I don’t give a fuck about whether she killed her husband (who we had very little evidence was a nice guy- he seemed super sketchy). All of her policy positions are in the right place

Good. Allowing randos to buy lions and tigers to keep as pets is fucking ridiculous.

Throwing it out there that AV Club needs to do a retrospective on Warner’s performance as EVIL in “Time Bandits,” one of the best villainous performances in a fantasy genre film.

The “Lasers! 8 OCLOCK! DAY ONE!”