What about Brendan? I think he got the shittiest end of the stick and should also be getting some free legal counsel.

JL: Yes, I did. And now [gestures widely] I am a successful woman who has not had a pregnancy.

If you actually had facts to report about Future’s involvement with his other children or any possible drug use, that would be one thing. As it is, it’s entirely possible that the album name is just a name that’s intended to be provocative and that he regularly has visitation with his other children (it’s not as if…

Comments would be different if sexes were reversed here -_-. Cmon Jez.

You are my everything. WHAT BOOK WAS THIS? I thought it was VC Andrews but I can’t place it.

I stopped watching when Jess and Nick broke up...SOMEONE TELL ME HOW WINSTON AND HIS CAT ARE DOING!

The full amount of damages sought isn’t often pled in the complaint. The way most state courts are set up, there are different divisions — small claims, municipal, law, etc. The difference in the divisions is that they hear cases of varying levels of damages. Small claims could be claims less than $2000, law could be…

Well, if you’re going to call her “some dumb lady,” you might as well know the agonizing, bankrupting reality of third degree burns and systemic corporate indifference.

It fills my cold, dead heart with warmness whenever someone is correctly informed about the Hot Coffee case. Like aside from McDonald’s bullshit, the media just had a field day at that poor lady’s expense

I’m not the one who brought up the coffee, I’m not the one who spoke in ignorance, and I’m not the one who condescendingly shit all over a victim here. That’s where your precious derailing happened. In the very first post of the thread, making it less “a conversation,” per se, than “an ignorant person being rude.”

Omg, thank you for this. The poor McDonald’s coffee lady has taken WAY too much abuse. Her suit was completely legit, I studied it in Torts in law school. Damn, can the record just be clear for her!? McDonald’s was reckless with the coffee temperature to get more coffee out of the grounds. She had third degree burns!…

Not only what the previous comments said, but corporations used that to pass through “tort reform” effectively capping the amount of damages someone can claim. I really recommend watching the documentary Hot Coffee.

Not to waylay the point however, the case of the coffee is a lot different than you think it was. That coffee case involved 3rd burns in the groin and thigh area from the coffee being far too hot, skin grafts and on top of that, she was the passenger in a car that was parked when she spilled it. The family just wanted…

She was awarded for her medical bills, that coffee was well into dangerous temperatures and caused third degree burns on 6% (eta actually it may have been 16%) of her body. It almost killed her. She was in the hospital for 8 days and needed skin grafts. She originally asked for her medical bills but they refused.

Bigotry is bigotry. Parsing racism from xenophobia from Islamophobia is trying to distance yourself from people you consider to be bigots while defending your own bigotry. Zimmerman is not using the term “dirty Muslim” because he has concerns about theology. Calling dark people “dirty” is about the oldest play in the…

This story only starts out like a horror story. It was horrible for me at the time. My boyfriend and I were celebrating our first Thanksgiving together. It was also just a couple years since my Mom died, a loss which had blasted a huge hole in our family. We scattered after that and had Thanksgivings either alone or…

I work for an order of nuns. I am not Catholic but I can say, it definitely depends on the type of order. The Sisters I work for are service-oriented (not cloistered), and they were thrilled to let go of the habit and the religious names as soon as Vatican II happened. The only way you know they’re Sisters now if you…

Okay, I went and read the linked article. I think you legitimately had a short-circuit in your reading comprehension, Jane, no snark. All is says is that the price alone isn’t an indicator of quality, because so much of it goes to shit like marketing/packaging. That is not the same as saying the product isn’t better.

Deborah Lippman just came out with an Empire collection.

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