Tilda Swinton never struck me as a live, LIVE!!!! type of actress. But it will be interesting, at least.

Not that I disagree with this view of Gawker generally, what lede is being buried here? Should it read “People Neither White Nor Black Murdered With Knife; Gun Enthusiasts Vindicated”. That people can be killed with something other than a gun is not exactly breaking news. It takes a hell of a lot of persistence,…

Or is it your consumption of media that has escalated in the last few years? :)

Argument or not, why the fuck would you get out of the car in a tiger park??

I didn’t, either, but Linda Kasabian did. She went along with the murders as a lookout, because her daughter was a hostage at the ranch, but she testified at the Manson trial at considerable risk to her life. She also told Manson to his face: “I’m not you, Charlie. I can’t kill anybody.”

Not totally disagreeing with you, but since prostitutes were (or conceived to be) his primary victims, it was not that big a stretch for anyone, let alone in law enforcement. So far as I know, though, he was not in any way assigned to the case.

I wouldn’t say Sutcliffe was caught “by chance”, but by an alert constable who noticed his license plates didn’t match, and that he matched some of the descriptions. Regular police officers are also part of the team; something that even the detectives can forget.

He’d probably saying something like: it’s important to me; I want to learn how to get my message out.

One of the first things I teach in public speaking is to fit the speech to the audience. Yeesh.

It brightened my day. Thanks.

It was a horrible fuck up. Notorious. But Stalin was demanding that Russia’s allies do something...so some Canadian colonials had to die.

I think of the Dieppe raid, when the Churchill tank’s treads couldn’t get a grip on pebbles. Pebbles!

How dare anyone give people who seemingly want publicity give them any that they don’t like?!

The most to expect is her friends, family, or work acquaintances (perhaps hoping to raise their own profiles) saying something like: “that’s not the Dani Mathers I know! She’s so broken up about it.”

This “lady”?

Possibly, but not necessarily. The twenty percent I assume includes the elderly. People don’t think of them as disabled because old age is “natural” (like diseases and accidents are unnatural), but that doesn’t help you when you want to use a doorknob, or get up a flight of stairs.

Sigh. Well, it doesn’t sound terrible, but I’m so tired of the before-her-time Mary Sues of fiction. Yes, there were a few real women who wanted to be doctors, and women who wanted to change things strictly along the lines of [year book written/program produced]. The modern way is always the best way — of course!…

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, no matter how unlikely...what looks like a boutique anti-abortion group is exploiting Kahlo’s image to sell some fucking shirts. From the immaculately smarmy article:

No doubt. In my city, the winners of the sidewalk and line-up wars are often little old ladies from Hong Kong. They have the experience, they have the moves, and they are pointy all over.

We’re not exactly lacking for racial issues in Canada.