Martyrdom. Banning a group this fringe at this stage gives them an air of “dangerous.” And some people are attracted to dangerous things just because they are dangerous.

Maybe people have just started to get suspicious now because at this age the girl is getting her drivers license, applying to college, etc and the documents weren’t matching up?

Because obviously this is traumatizing and confusing? She was raised 18 years with one person, which turned out to be a lie; that person is now imprisoned and she has to deal with the consequences. Seems fairly obvious why this would be stressful and traumatic for her.

Earlier news reports I saw wouldn’t print the name Kamiyah lives under, in order to protect her privacy. I hope she has sanctioned release of her name, otherwise I am disappointed in news outlets that would print it. Including Jez.

The Goo Goo Dolls probably share more musical DNA with Matchbox 20 than Creed.

Not even. The Goo Goo Dolls were a punk-ish Replacements-style outfit turned straight up lite rock that your mom listens to when she fills the hot tub, lights the candles and breaks out the toolbox of dildos. There’s not a single song in their discography that one would honestly call “post-grunge.” They’re not even a…

In that you can’t be for one and be for the other simultaneously. Here are the next few questions from that interview:

Do people really not get that he was using hyperbole to point out the lack of empathy in this country for people who support agendas from more than one side of the political spectrum and not making a literal statement about his beliefs? I mean I’m not saying the guy is a genius of wordsmithery, but I’m surprised that…

I have no idea what criteria anyone would use beyond “white guys with guitars in their band” to put Nickelback, Creed and the Goo Goo Dolls on the same list.

That was my takeaway as well.

I wonder why Jon Chait didn’t get that same sense of welcoming from his women friends.

In related news, a 46 year old woman was recently given probation for raping a 13 year old boy:

open hand spanking =/= hitting.

Not to mention her saying this: “McSweeney texts again on December 29, “U hate me cus I’m white. Our conversations r everything to me btw. We have a lot of friends in common and if anyone of them saw this I would b so ashamed.”

This article is a little deceptive because you start midway through the text exchange, where he seems like he’s being cold and she seems like he’s being chatty. Start at the actual beginning, where she opens by text bombing him a bunch about how every dude on the app “looks gay”:

Really? He seems absolutely fine in this exchange. You can tell pretty early on that he got the crazy vibe from her crazy texts, so he backed off and was just hoking. He was never disrespectful and didn’t ghost her. He. . . seems fine?

“But observing that fact, even understanding it, doesn’t necessarily engender empathy. In fact, quite the contrary.”

“maybe unknowingly”

While I agree that releasing sensitive information without first screening it-which for me is the mark of difference that makes a whistleblower-her punishment has been outsized and unnecessarily harsh. I’m hopeful that she’ll be released, as much as a fuck-you to the incoming Piss Lord as anything.

The sentence was way out of range. Trump’s own National Security adviser leaked intel to Pakistan with at least as much consequence to field operations, and what was his punishment? He was informally reprimanded