My parents didn’t have the money to help me out, but my husband grew up with grandparents and parents who were able to pay for his tuition so that he graduated with a masters debt-free. His parents also helped us with a down payment and gave us $20k for our wedding (we paid for the rest). I think that they wanted my…

That’s my situation too. I wanted to go to college and my grandparents paid my tuition so I was able to start my career with the education I needed to easily get a job and zero debt, when my friends had 300 - 400/month to pay and most of them are still paying. You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps when…

On the other hand, don’t you think that, if parents CAN help their kids with certain things, then it’s nice/a good thing that they do?

She conflates them within her personal philosophy so I suppose I do, too, when I’m talking about her. I am the younger sister, after all, and still prone to repeat my big sister as if she knows what she’s talking about!

I hope it’s nice, and I hope they realize that most people don’t get this stuff. I certainly didn’t. I paid for my kids to go to university. And I’ve been putting a bit of money aside for years to help with down payments when (or if) they eventually decide to buy places. Not much, but a bit—just so they’re not…

My sister and I argue about this all the time. We grew up fairly lower middle-class, but our grandparents were always there to buy new tires or help my mom with grocery money. So many people don’t have that and when you do have it - that safety net - it’s easy to take it for granted that you aren’t really looking at…

CNN claims it’s his staffers, but then again, they’re “fake news” so CAN WE EVEN TRUST THEM.

I concur. I think your case is very persuasive and well made.

You are doing god’s work.

“here is Joseph Fiennes, brother of Ralph, also known as “the hotter one,” as Michael Jackson ...”

Obviously as a woman I’m experiencing bias. I tend to want to defend Jolie. I find her easier to empathize with. This is kind of the thought that’s nagging at me.

if it’s true that russia has been cultivating donald for five years, i see that as noteworthy and i’d like that to be further investigated. agree to disagree, i guess.

When he died, Michael Jackson was trying to pull together a film in which he would star as Edgar Allen Poe (novelist, pedophile, and white person). Frankly, he’d love that a white actor is playing him.

Court appointed counseling and supervised visits are SOP when any investigation is opened up (at least for LA County). I’ve had a friend go through that shit with his daughter, which was expensive and devastating to him, all because his ex-wife didn’t want to be bothered with the hassle of 50/50 custody so raised…

She’s definitely had smug asshole going on since the filing.

A member of the flight crew called the police on him. I can’t imagine that call was made lightly.

A warning that from his side that he has as much dirt on her as she has on him no matter what her publicist and powerful lawyer may have her believe, probably helped.

Right there with you but I include mark Wahlberg and Justin timberlake in my list of blandness that’s way to intrusive in my life

Absolutely- I consider this the Lisa Rinna way! She’s the only actress I’ve ever seen say “I will do any job that pays me insane amounts of money”. It’s actually so refreshing to hear a celeb say that.

I did watch the Affleck combo platter yesterday of Gone Baby Gone when I was home sick and I forgot how much I loved that movie. But I’m also partial to anything involving working class men with Boston accents, so I’m like built to have a certain amount of Affleck affection (Afflecktion?)