But if you can afford to have a regular family doctor, you might think to call them before making a trip to the ER and in many cases they can probably tell you it’s not an emergency

Well yeah, you’re right about the Ugly Duckling, but I think that’s probably meant to be the reference here with the name of the candy duck

Sorry, this is a stretch. Has no one read “The Ugly Duckling”?

There’s a very well done (and very frustrating) podcast about this family called “Broken Harts” that really highlights how much these women were able to get away with because they were liberal white women. There were lots of warning signs that this situation was bad and only getting worse, but those signs were ignored…

This movie looks like it might actually be good

Not only are polygraphs not reliable, but him believing the encounters to be consensual means absolutely nothing

You might be surprised at the number of people living that lifestyle AND living paycheck-to-paycheck/living beyond their means.

This is straight up murder. They stood outside his car, knowing he was asleep and calmly planned to murder him, even knowing that his gun had no clip, and stood by patiently until they felt the slightest movement gave them an excuse to murder him. Of course a person waking up from sleep is gonna move and isn’t gonna…

In an interview with Good Morning America before she was charged, Smith says Holgerson asked Smith to push her if she couldn’t work up the courage to jump

I agree with Billboard, that’s not a country song ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I also think a lot of other songs on the country charts are pop songs with just as few country affectations as this song, and they also don’t belong, but that makes them wrong about those songs, not wrong about this song. I do think there’s a definite racial…

I’d like to echo the other comments about following the suggested professional guidance when reporting on suicide:

That Bashir documentary actually spurred the investigation that lead to his 2005 trial for child molestation, so people definitely found fault with what he was saying, though not enough people, he still had plenty of defenders 

Haha that was not the start of the Wacko Jacko phase, he was well entrenched in crazy by then

I agree about the plastic surgery, but lightening your skin to get uniform color is actually a pretty common treatment for severe cases of vitiligo. Michael was hardly alone in going that route

I’d rather he straight out say “no” than talk about it with “some ambiguity with regards to what that would look like” when I know the ambiguity is because there’s no chance in hell they’re actually gonna make it happen but they want to dangle some hope it in front of our faces like a carrot to chase. So I have no…

Great, now charge everyone who protected him and facilitated this behavior for the last 25 years as accessories to these crimes

1. You’re an idiot

These headphones have a removable cable, so you just plus one of these in where the cable would go:

These headphones have a removable cable, so you just plus one of these in where the cable would go:

There are very few good reason to arrest and charge an 11-year-old child with a crime. 99.9% of disciplinary issues with young children should be handled without criminalizing them by getting law enforcement involved.

Well he definitely staked out his territory more in the alt-country, folk-rock, Americana part of the indie rock umbrella than the post-punk part of the indie rock umbrella, but between Whiskeytown in the 90s and his solo stuff in the early 2000s he had a relatively high profile even before the Taylor Swift cover…