You live in a well-maintained bubble then. Turn on Fox News. Check the facebook pages of some dude you went to high school with who ran in a different crowd than you did and was fanboying Bush/Reagan/the Tea Party/Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin(pick a GOP-affiliated mouthpiece/candidate of your choice that was…

There are criminal defamation laws in some US states. It might be a bit of a stretch, but I think you could argue that she presented information about him that she knew to be false which damaged his reputation in a way that had tangible financial consequences. Criminal impersonation would also be a possibility in…

Yeah, this says incredibly good things about Gilad that he didn’t just write the guy off forever due to ego. Also “reed version of Sherlock and Watson” is a phrase I never thought I would see but it is magnificent. (As is your kinja handle)

On the legal front, he did lose something tangible (the value of the…

I am so sorry your father did this to you and that your family’s reaction was so flippant. That is a devastating betrayal to uncover while you were grieving.

Please tell your friend though. No friend will think this is funny at all. They will be livid on your behalf, and someone else’s righteous fury about a wrong…

It’s often to contrast with something like statutory rape, which may involve 2 willing and enthusiastic participants but due to age one of the participants cannot legally consent.

I think you’re way underestimating the number of racist people in this country if you think 9/10 racists are from the South. I don’t say that to suggest there aren’t a ton of racist people in the South. There are. But saying 9/10 racists have a Southern accent is letting millions of racist people in New England, the…

Oof, the “good white folk” don’t get out much I guess. Racism gradually dying out was *maybe* a more compelling argument 8 years ago, but it’s hard to imagine anyone genuinely believing that now. Overt racism is trendy again. You get your red hat (instead of a white sheet), a big Confederate flag, and an assault rifle…

TL;DR version - you can’t strip back most fundamentalist evangelical religions back to a “do unto others” message because that is not and has never been the core tenet of those religions.

Are you related to me? This is my family exactly. German-immigrant grandparents (and great-grandparents) who farmed. Big midday meal, evening meal was called supper. This nomenclature was retained by my parents even though they were not farmers and we basically lived in the city (rural-ish outskirts of large metro…

I sure hope that Nancy Salzman’s license has been permanently revoked. The idea of this woman conducting is really disturbing. The one woman from Canada (Sarah Edmonson, I think) had filed a complaint that Salzman forced her to watch videos women being murdered and dismembered.

I know, right? Did I just miss it or did Mack have some sort of great career boost out of this? It seems like she’s stayed pretty firmly D-list post Smallville or maybe slipped down from that.

I guess I’m kind of surprised at the popularity (150 women!) of the DOS subcult when in every picture I’ve seen of adherents,…

And the woman pictured still looks gaunt. As does Clare Bronfman. None of these women look physically well. Their faces are hollow and wan, even with the copious bronzer on Bronfman. They look ill. Mack and Bronfman both look dead in the eyes. They aren’t really the greatest poster children for an empowerment…

That area of PG County is having a LOT of issues with the small town police forces. This just happened recently in the adjacent town of Mount Rainier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/seven-placed-on-leave-as-mount-rainier-officials-probe-police-department/2018/04/23/4ee3b63e-4739-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f2…

I think this is really sound advice and a great model. The idea of acknowledging that there is a problem and that you are part of it on some level somehow forces people into solving it completely is paralyzing. Acknowledging is a good first step. Taking steps towards doing better or actively mitigating your…

This is spot on. And that’s what they are being advised to do by PR folks and fixers. Lay low, let people forget you exist for a while, someone worse will get outed as a predator/arrested/caught on tape and people will forget all about what you did. Come back and in comparison it won’t be “that bad” and you’ll get to…

I’m just getting a strong Temple of Doom vibe from this thing like it will get moved all over the house and then tragically roll down some stairs right over Luna.

Where do you even put something the size of that huge flower ball? It just weirdly sits in rich giftee’s living room like a sculpture? Or in their front…

Except that is a very Catholic worldview. Faith NOT works is a pretty fundamental part of evangelical theology. It was at the core of a meme that got facebook circulated by several of my Bible Belt evangelical cousins that had a giant list of things that *won’t* get you to heaven - going to church, being a good…

This comment with your kinja handle is perfect.

There would be no “more weight” for Trump. One rock and he’d be giving stuff away like Santa Claus. Unfortunately we’d probably later find out he didn’t own any of it, just had it on credit, and it would all get repoed from the charities.

God bless Humira without methotrexate. I’ve been happily pickling my liver at select events since I have been on the one without the other. It has worked just as well for me as both together and without some of the shitty side effects (like weird liver levels on blood tests and an horrible stomach ulcer, though that…