They seemed like nice, comfortable old friends.

Yes, but the fires wouldn’t have catapulted like lightning were it not for climate change. They have caught arsonists where I live, too, but arsonists have been always been among us. And not been responsible for catastrophic events. One of the major fires, here, was caused by sparks from a hammer on a fence. It is the…

So to explain, in a nice wet forest after a rain, even if someone tries to start a fire it’s not going to go very far, if at all. The spark that started it is largely irrelevant, whether it’s a faulty trailer hitch, a bolt of lightning, or some asshole starting a fire to try and cover up a murder. It’s the conditions…

So do you think she just showed up uninvited to sing, or they invited her but she was supposed to sing other people’s songs, or... ?

Hon, you’re reaching here. The award shows do the inviting, it’s not like she begged to come on. Betty is her first big country hit in years. It’s not a huge surprise that they’d ask her to come. As for the song not being nominated, I don’t think it was even eligible for this year. The ACMs were supposed to be…

....for promoting her new album by singing one of its singles at an award show?  

I had metastatic testicular cancer about 10 years ago, which resulted in a surgical scar from my pelvis to my sternum. I beat the cancer, and contemplated a decoration for a couple years. For some reason, a working lunch turned down this road, and I told my boss at the time that I was going to get an alien tattooed,…

Kate Winslett’s performance (in Wonder Wheel)was exactly like Diane Keaton’s, Mia Farrow’s & Kate Blanchett’s. He directs every actress he works with to deliver the Exactly the Same performance. All the female leads in ALL of his movies are insecure, babbling, nervous, idiots.

That’s weird: I haven’t seen any evidence she brought it up herself, unbidden by interviewers or the press and I highly doubt that she did but let’s pretend she did cuz you said so. This site and many others are constantly badgering Allen’s female stars, Cate Blanchett, Mena Suvari, Diane Keaton, just to name a few…

Agreed.  Look at all of the famous actors that have worked with Polanski after his rape charges.  Why isn’t anybody hounding Harrison Ford for working with him on Frantic?  Or Hugh Grant on Bitter Moon?  Everybody’s memory is apparently five minutes old and it’s always on women to explain why they made decisions that…

Also, the very same grief might be convincing the writer’s mother that she would have immediately taken her husband back if had only asked, but that may not actually be true . . .

This is the perspective that’s so often missing from discussions like this. You’ve articulated it perfectly. This letter writer should never have been in the position they were in. Our parent’s marriages are not our responsibility and, to a much greater extent than many people are capable of recognizing, they’re often…

You were not responsible for your parent’s marriage. You were not responsible for your dad’s affair. You were not appointed, nor expected to be, your parent’s marriage counselor. You are their CHILD, not an unbiased professional. You are not responsible for your father failing to reach to your mother because that was…

Yeah, completely not your fault. And just because your mother now knowing what happened says that she wishes he reached out doesn’t mean that she would have reacted positively or that things would have turned out well. If you had told him to contact your mother, there is just as much chance that it would have turned…

I say this as someone who battles lifelong major depression and has attempted suicide. This is not your fault. It’s easy to fall into that thinking in your grief. People always want an explanation of why it happened. The why exists in the mind of the suicidal person. You have no way of knowing that, had your father…

Granted. He was a full blown douchecanoe in the racism department. Whole lotta ‘beastly races’ for everyone from India populations to the Chinese to African nations and the Caribbeans. Wasn’t particular on the Jews nor Palestine either. Not saying he wasn’t. For that, him and Trump can probably line up pretty well.

There was an article in The Atlantic back in January that discussed how Kate and Meghan have basically become avatars for the culture wars and how people reflect their values onto these two women regardless of what they’re really like. One of things I found most interesting was these tabloids and writers who praise…

Literally the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. And to think that everyone took the steps to actually film and preserve it? Good Lord.

Excuse my French, but fuck vetting. We’re talking about Donald Trump, here, and we’re less than two months out from the election. True or not - and it’s DEFINTELY true - there is no way he’d be able to prove it one way or the other. He’s going to call it fake no matter it’s veracity, so unload on his ass.

Did he hire a fake Putin so he could eat his ass?