I also didn’t care for her one way or another, to me she seems really calculating in her self-promotion. This however, has revealed a maturity I would have seriously doubted a month ago. I still won’t be listening to her music, but I’ll scowl less at her People magazine covers in the grocery aisle.

I was neutral on Taylor Swift prior to this lawsuit. I now have a newfound respect for her. She acknowledges she has the privilege and bank account to fight. Her $1 settlement is an enormous win for all of us women who have been sexually assaulted (which sadly, is most women).

Seems to me like he’s looking straight past her....

This is the best:

And with that, I am now a Taylor Swift fan.

My favorite:

Yeah, I’ve never been a huge Taylor Swift fan, but that is a topnotch, A+ answer to a bullshit question. I mean, I’m sure she was prepped for this, but I’d be hard pressed not to stand up and cheer in the courtroom if I’d heard any of these answers in person.

Mueller’s lawyer M. Gabriel McFarland asked Swift whether she was “critical” of her then bodyguard, Greg Dent, for not intervening. Swift responded, “No, I am critical of your client for sticking his hand under my skirt and grabbing my bare ass.”

Dean’s dad failed at being a dad/parent when Dean needed him the most.

I immediately noticed what Dean’s dad is doing, because I see it in my own dad and father in law: It is narcissism. When dad said something like “I believe any criticism of me is really just a criticism of yourself,” the hairs stood up on my body. That’s what a narcissist says and does: Nothing is ever their fault,…

Yeah. Peter is faking. He came here to be The Bachelor and that’s what he is going to do.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS. I have had it with the “It’s cute and funny to drink like a fish!” bullshit. same goes for similar sentiments about beer. the number of functional alcoholics I know is staggering.  

No 21 year old has ever made a stupid decision ever in history, and if they did they definitely deserved to die, you’re right.

Is it just me or does that lead (out of focus) paul bearer look like Jared Kushner?

That confession is the craziest part of all this. The idea that he’s enrolled at the University of Virginia, in a fraternity, and studying abroad but his family is somehow so destitute that he would risk his life for the promise a pickup-truck worth $10,000 it utterly ridiculous. It also makes no sense that a church…

I’m a parent. I hope I’d do better than this if one of my kids had died horribly at the hands of sadistic officials in a renegade state, but I cannot be sure I would—I might well go completely insane. Grief on this level is a kind of madness.

Just FYI the boy’s family are avid Trump supporters, and blame President Obama for Otto’s abuse.

I’m glad his family was able to come to peace and not turn him into terry schivo 2. I can’t imagine what they’ve been through for the past year.

I don’t have any political thing to say or anything. Just that poor kid and his poor family. Yeah he fucked around somewhere that he shouldn’t have, but it wasn’t anything beyond what a typical kid his age does. I just feel awful for his family and that he had to endure that treatment before he died. Many people,…

It’s almost as if it was a poor idea to build cities in the desert.