I agree, nothing will get through to his cult members.

Regardless, the book will be published, its contents available to anyone who wants it, and it will no doubt become another document of record for this dumpster-fire in American history. Dr Mary Trump has done her country an enormous service by documenting her family’s history. Maybe we’ll learn something from it.

I found the way Diana spoke to be very affected -- slurry and whispery at the same time. Not that it was unpleasant -- au contraire -- it was charmingly silly, like she herself was charmingly silly. And desperately unhappy. Stewart just needs to mumble and look down a lot and sport that dreadful helmet-hair Diana wore…

Why is this issue so important to Rowling? Seriously, no one is taking anything away from her. She is not diminished in any way by transexuality and their efforts to be included as women. I find this odd. It seems to be a belief that one would not feel such urgency to publisize, but one that she could hold and express…

Exactly. Plus, these people are celebrities, not necessarily deep thinkers. And unless they’ve been publicly and regularly advocating against racism and police violence then they risk looking like opportunists. The only meaningful thing they can do right now is give a large chunk of money to a related cause.

They were not the brightest fellows that’s for sure.

What dreadful people. I am stunned that they thought this performance was going to fly. They are finished. They should delete every single social media account they run and disappear.

You’re probably right -- that’s the most likely scenario. Also, there was a lovely article about him in the New York Times today -- did you see it? He’s lovely. The world needs more people like Christian Cooper.

I think he started filming to ensure he wasn’t scapegoated for her assholeishness, and because he is an avid wildlife advocate for Central Park and is tired of irresponsible, entitled dog owners letting their animals off leash in sensitive areas. He, and fellow birders, may be compiling video and photos to send to the…

Honestly, I think she genuinely believed that the police would arrive and force him to delete the video or seize his phone. I think that’s what was going through her head. She wanted the video gone and she had the dirty trick to make that happen right at her fingertips. Her end game was to have him, and the video,…

I think there’s so much going on in that video it’s overwhelming. If people react first to the dog being choked and writhing around being hung I don’t think that it necessarily means they don’t care about the very real issue (historical and present-day) of black men being scapegoated, lynched, targetted, and at risk…

That sounds like a sanctuary, not a for-profit zoo in the traditional sense.

So to save one species we must keep hundreds of others captive? Pretty sure we can bring an endangered species back without forcing others to perform for humans and live bleak, unnatural lives.

Holy crap there’s a highlight reel.

Yup. Ramsay actually looked a bit scared at one point. They were so unpleasant.

I’ve never really been into yelly shouty spittaly guys, but GR impressed me with how he dealt with that whackadoodle couple with the cake shop. It was great tv when you could see it dawning on him that these people weren’t pretending to be unhinged, there really were. And he backed slowly away... does anybody else…

In this article the writer clearly is all giddy and thrilled that Roy,“...once snuck a cheetah out of a zoo and on to a cruise ship in a laundry bag...” where the animal then went on to being used and abused in magic tricks to amuse passengers. How fucking sick is that?

I remember hoping they were being encouraged to keep journals -- they no doubt heard and saw a lot of noteworthy things and as they get older they might want to recount their experience in a book, if they were so inclined.

Honestly, I can’t think of another incident in North America that involved such diabolical planning and utter cold-blooded purpose. I think this will be characterized in future as unprecedented in scope and complexity.

Yes. Canada may not have the number of school or workplace shootings (although we have had them), but you can be sure we are not spared from the scourge of domestic violence. And sadly, as happened here with the murder by the gunman of Cst. Heidi Stevenson (who it appears may have used her cruiser to ram the gunman’s…