Tara Lipinsky looks like Shakira

Thank you! You can’t deflate a hard plastic kayak! And these boats are not meant to be run in choppy rivers!

because you can’t deflate a hard plastic kayak

He did it to himself. Drinking, no lifejacket, wrong boat for conditions when he was supposed to be experienced, set out too late in the day for the season. All fatal mistakes. Nothing to do with her. She couldn’t have saved him and she didn’t contribute to his death.

Actually, they were wide bodied ocean kayaks, not narrow boats for shooting rapids. Other than that, I totally agree with you.

In fact, it couldn’t be ‘deflated’. They were in hard plastic, wide bodied ocean kayaks and should not even have been using them on the river. The type of kayak they were in directly contributed to his capsizing in the first place.

You can’t be serious.

It’s a factor in an antagonistic judicial system. When there’s a death in this kind of scenario, there must be blame. If there’s even the slightest hesitation or change of story on the part of the only other person involved, that signifies guilt and it’s their job to nose it out and ‘get to the truth’. That’s why the…

She couldn’t have helped him even if she wanted to. He would have capsized her kayak trying to hang on, and he would have succumbed to hypothermia anyway. The kayaks they were using (wide bodied plastic) are not intended for the type of water they were in. Those are ocean kayaks, meant for big breakers in a storm, not…

She pled guilty because her lawyers convinced her that if she went to trial and lost, she was looking at decades in jail, instead of months. The 20/20 interview explains a lot of her thinking. The whole thing was a travesty.

This is such bullshit. She didn’t kill him. Nothing she did to his kayak lead to his death. There was nothing she could have done to save him. No matter what she said after hours and hours of interrogation by police tag-teaming each other in an effort to pin some kind of murder charge on her, she didn’t contribute to…

IMHO, you are a patronizing git. Do you always address people like this?

Anything with cheese in a ball on it is not ‘poutine’. I don’t know what the hell else you want to call it, but poutine it is not. That is all, Canada

Question for any American lawyers: Is the concept of “independent legal advice” unknown down south? Because it sure sounds like there was quite a bit of collusion on the part of the men involved, to the detriment of their female ‘clients’.

For some reason, every time I inadvertently (believe me, it is NEVER on purpose) see that video of Trump’s hair snafu, it makes me throw up a little.

Yeah, because white straight women have been the problem for the past god knows how many thousand years, not the men of every colour that have been oppressing, raping, beating and killing us. Right.

As usual, women get precisely nowhere because we are so busy tearing each other apart that we miss the bigger picture - the patriarchal system that has kept ALL OF US down. You know how I knew the trans woman who attacked Rose McGowan was a ‘real’ woman? She attacked her for not ‘including her’. Yep, attack the woman.…

Did you see the very prominent ‘blackamoor’ brooch that Princess Michael of Kent wore to the official Royal Family ‘meet Harry’s fiancee’ lunch yesterday? IMO, it was a pretty major statement about ‘tainting the royal bloodlines’. But then, she always was the tackiest of the royals.

You don’t have to keep defending or explaining yourself. Some men are just so butthurt because they believe women aren’t held to the same standard as men when it comes to domestic violence that they can’t accept it when a woman acknowledges that she made a mistake and shows some insight. You have repeatedly…

Why are you insisting that she’s ‘falsely contrite’? She’s said repeatedly that hitting him was wrong, that she acted impulsively in the moment, that she’s reflected on what she did and why, and that she regrets her actions. Sounds pretty damned contrite to me.