I would take the Osho claims with a large grain of salt. I think Rawls is right about a lot of details of this case, but at one point she claims that authorities could be afraid of Rajneesh cult members - this is not credible whatsoever. The Sunnyasins/Osho cult members never had the kind of connections to law…

It’s pretty damn suspicious that multiple people in the car were sedated. I doubt that other family who drove off that same pass will have similar toxicology results...

It’s notable that murder-suicides committed by BOTH parents against their children are very, very rare. The assumption that they made the decision together to drive off the cliff may arise from the fact that we so rarely see highly publicized cases of domestic violence among gay couples, so an abusive dynamic between…

Yeah, the most generous reading is that Jennifer drugged an unsuspecting Sarah along with the children, in which case Sarah isn’t a murderer. Maybe Jennifer was also abusive to Sarah and this is more like a typical murder-suicide where one abusive parent kills the whole family. 

“Every Times story you read, every Washington Post story you read, they’re not going back and checking with people who went on record and saying are you okay with your quotes.”

James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey and the Dylan McDermott Mulroneys are all still more interesting than Armie Hammer.

I want to sympathize with you, but you can’t compare PPs to CPCs. There is no cherry picking here. Planned Parenthood employees don’t lie. They are subject to the same standards that all medical professionals follow. They do not interfere with their patients’ choices. All CPCs are structured around lying to women and…

It’s not the gender of the editor that matters, female editors are just as liable, especially at places like xojane. The bottom line is that the editor is responsible for every article published by a website or news organization. If a writer slanders someone, reports something untrue, or makes a bigoted argument, it’s…

The editor is just as responsible. Female writers are constantly encouraged to write sensational garbage like this for places like XO Jane and Vice by editors who want the traffic and don’t give a fuck about the fallout for either the readers or the writer. They solicit horrible takes and humiliating personal stories,…

That prom dress title sounds like a plagiarized Taylor Swift lyric.

Motive and ability to carry out a mass killing are two different things. The motive can be anything, and in this case it may very well be that the tipping point was anger at Youtube policy. To acknowledge that isn’t to blame Youtube policy any more than we blame Jodie Foster for Hinckley shooting Reagan.

Yeah, when I first saw a picture of him with Bell I wondered why she was hanging out with the guy from Nickelback. Shepard must have an exceptionally good personality.

Prince was a devout member of an extremely homophobic church and yet remained a gay icon and presumably didn’t care. Stevens probably doesn’t care much either.

I appreciate the guy who wrote ‘XOXO only if she will allow it’ for adding that caveat.

I think the Stephanie wig is a parody of Felicity’s hair. It’s a reminder that sometimes when you try for greatness you end up with the worst curls of all.

I am struck by the way Hogarth’s arc succeeds in all the ways Trish’s plot fails. Hogarth tries to run away from her ALS, is punished for seeking a false cure and living in a fantasyland, and rebuilds her life by accepting her diagnosis. It’s her choice to abandon pursuit of a cure/suicide that allows her to get a new…

Both mothers are absolutely acknowledged as toxic and abusive. Most children tolerate abusive mothers because they also desperately crave their love and approval, and Trish and Jess are no different. Their stories significantly differ because Jess’s is also a story about grief, and for all the flaws of this series,…

Trish is having a Riley Finn moment. If we are supposed to sympathize with her, they’ve miscalculated.

Maybe they’re talking about Daredevil?

But would you go back to the time before labor protections were widespread and hardhats were the norm, hear a story about a miner complaining about an injury, and criticize him for failing to protect himself from a systemically unsafe work environment? Really?