There's plenty of blame to go around, for sure. But Bill seduced a 22 year old INTERN, while he was married, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. And then his team and family circled the wagons and blamed her, and scolded her, and the GOP piled on too. The slut-shaming was so extreme that she thought about…

Or maybe she is really trying to parlay her experience into a memoir or public spokesperson for bullying. Or trying to head off the inevitable scandal-mongering when Hillary announces she's running for President.

I'm wondering whether there's another shoe about to drop, here. She's been in the public eye more than usual lately.

In freshman year of high school, my amazing health teacher went on an incredible rant about this whole idea. Something about a girl telling her that it must be true love with the boy she slept right, because he fit her "just right."

Just wait until he pieces together his mascot role in her whole anti-vax crusade.

Jenny McCarthy's 12-year old son must be so embarrassed all the time.

We "traveled" for Halloween because we lived in an area with no street lights or sidewalks, and the houses were really far apart. it wasn't a bid for extra candy, or to see how rich people lived. It was an honest safety issue.

I agree that it's coolest when trick or treating is a neighborhood activity, but that's not always an option. To use myself as an example, we live on one of the worst blocks of a nice neighborhood (aka still safe as hell), but we don't have sidewalks on our street and we have a bunch of blind curves and hills, so we…

I didn't, but in the same neighborhood, a lot of people do now, because our neighborhood isn't super-well-designed for it. Not a lot of lighting, and it's the single-road-with-tree-branches style, not a grid, so it just takes a long time to get around, and there are more trick-or-treat-efficient neighborhoods nearby…

I did, but that is because I grew up in the middle of nowhere, where we would have to travel 7 miles just to get to the next house. So, my parents would bundle up my brother and me and take us to the very nice neighborhood in town where my dad's cousin lived.

I lived in a regular middle class neighborhood in GA, median home price was like 150 (that's a lot of house in GA circa 1990s), but there was a nearby neighborhood where the home prices were 500+. It was common knowledge that going there was the way to hit candy jackpot. We went there once and it was no joke —…

kids traveling for halloween now?!

I live kind of, across the way from a really nice neighborhood. Like, an NFL player lives nearby. My house is more in the "new owner" kind of size, but there are some fucking awesome houses. It's got the same kind of deal: every Halloween, buckets of kids come in from everywhere to go trick or treating. And you know…

But if you allow them to be happy, they'll never feel the need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The Poors must be kept in their place, silly!

But it just bugs me, because we already pay more than enough taxes toward actual social services.

This is not just a "rich people" issue. I know plenty of middle class people in safe neighborhoods that get super pissed when carloads of kids from poorer areas get dropped off. Frankly I never understood the big deal. More kids means less candy for me to deal with later. Besides, if *I* lived in a less than safe…

"...or is it legitimately a free-for-all in which people hunt down the best candy grounds for their kids?"

I was sitting in Central Park once and a little girl came up to me and gave me a flower out of nowhere. I accepted it and said thank you, then she threw her arms around me and gave me this huge hug. It was adorable.

I'm right there with you. My mom made my sister and I not only hug our great aunt, but kiss her, when we didn't want to, and all because my mom didn't want to be socially embarrassed. I now have a lifetime of dealing with herpes simplex 1. Thanks Mom, thanks great aunt. Herpes, the gift that keeps on giving. I…

I love this, and that you're doing this for your daughter. The idea that little kids aren't people who have just as much right to refuse physical affection as anyone else is kind of mind-boggling to me. Can you imagine someone telling you as a full grown adult "Hug this person that you just met!" Ick.