So no one thought to call the mother to see what was up? If the kid was there that late I would at the very least try to contact their parent guardian to see if everything was okay.

Finally my social anxiety (I'd be scared shitless being at the center of attention) and lack of people in my life (my family is insane, and I have few close friends, which would make for an embarrassing Groom #1 side of the aisle) have come in use, and saved me thousands.

I totally disagree. I'll take myself for an example. I am not competitive or ego driven. I am motivated by consensus and strategizing and planning. I don't like to talk myself up either. Does that mean I am less of leader? It does not! I manage other people's views points and hone the general team into a cohesive…

so you went to a small liberal arts school in the northeast which is the experience of only a handful of college students?

This is pretty right-on. Especially this:

But why does someone's "manliness" even play into your decision? And are you implying that "more manly" hollywood men — I'm so curious to know who you're referring to, by the way — couldn't reasonably agree with Chris Gethard's sentiments? What exactly are you "seeing in their eyes"?

No, I think SHAME and the desperate desire to fit in motivate a lot of young men. And if we can get the enlightened guys, the normal guys, the guys with sisters, and male culture to affirmatively say "this is what's cool/acceptable" then it moves the needle. No, women complaining about it won't do that much; men have…

Idiots like you are why so few civilized conversations about gender equality happen outside of bubbles where everyone already agrees with everything being said. I have been working both professionally and a volunteer on helping young men, many of whom are poor and abused by the adult male figures in their lives, on…

FWIW, a NYTimes subscription is totally worth it, and the LATimes' new website is snazzy and easy to use.

I've started combatting this sort of stupidity in my day-to-day life by checking every single idiot who excuses rape with a bullshit excuse. It started with my dad, who is normally wonderful, making some sort of, "She was asking for it," remark, which I followed up by an acid, "Oh, and was I?" and some reminders about…

Does anyone really care what George Will thinks about this? I know he's egregious but it's like Sarah Palin - at some point it just becomes noise.

Don't much care for the hair, but those glasses are KILLER!

Hum, for all the back story, I always feel like none of them actually directly tell us why that person is doing FED time.

I had the most retweeted tweet of my life about that Slate article, which was, "Dear YA, don't let the bastards get you down, your friend, Chick Lit." Wendy McClure, who wrote THE WILDER LIFE, had the best tweet about it, where she said, "Oh, look, someone from Slate found a circa-2003 story, changed "chick lit" to…

a person is not violating a restraining order if the person who sought it makes a point to see them. There are laws put in place to prevent restraining order abuse. For example- say he got the restraining order and then started going to her place of employment and forcing her to leave so she's not within so and so…

Love her style.

I first assumed she was in for the bomb (which could be federal) but that they let him in to see her makes me thinks she's in for mail fraud in which case he wasn't the victim.

I loved Morello's back story. It was so heartbreaking. I was a little surprised that she did actually go on a date with him though. To be honest, last season I was thinking they were going to have him be someone she saw in a magazine (or on TV or something) but never met. And then have her be a crazy stalker.

I feel kind of shitty about the fact that I have consistently terrible sleeps in my boyfriend's bed; like it's some sort of marker of incompatibility. He swears that he sleeps loads better when I'm there but I spend almost the whole night simultaneously trying to fall asleep, pondering the outcome if I should wake him…