If this isn’t a prime example of why government regulation of business is a good thing, I don’t know what is.

Fascinating. Thanks for the perspective.

I’m ok with the argument that he doesn’t know what he’s doing because of the dementia, but after it happens once, why isn’t there a system in place to keep him from doing it another time....or in this case another 32 times.

Years ago someone on this site was telling us how people would leave kids in the children’s section of Barnes and Noble in the mall and just LEAVE to go to other shops and the attitude was “well, I’m still in the mall”.

This theory needs more stars

When I was a teenager I was flying via a connecting flight to Kansas City, Kansas but my flight was going to KC, Missouri. And since it was the late 90s, I didn’t have a cell phone so I’m using a pay phone trying to frantically call my mother to help me. I go to the gate and try to get the gate agents to help me, and…

Also if the being a bad parent bar is set at “Disney cruise daycare” than pretty much everything is bad parenting.

That is insane. I don’t understand how there isn’t some sort of way to flag bills that are disproportionately high for review before it becomes a massive red-tape nightmare.

I absolutely read that headline as ‘socks’ and couldn’t believe that they were so low key this year. Silly me.

Oh he wasn’t wrongly convicted. (I guess that wasn’t clear). However his ‘crime’ was basically being a stupid kid. He was like 19, had a drunk fight and then broke probation by hanging out with a bad girlfriend. Further compounded by a cell-mate who had contraband in the cell.

I can’t imagine how hard it must be to not only be convicted of a crime you didn’t commit and to have spent 23 years in prison. She has been imprisioned since the Clinton presidency, the world is so different, adjusting is going to be so difficult for her. I know someone whose son just finished a prison ordeal (jail,…

I don’t remember all the details, I think there might have been an outside leak at a hose spigot or something like that but maybe it was just a suspicion of it...point is, getting hit with an insane utility bill is terrifying because they will shut off the water

One of the women from my office had like a $700 water bill and the water company wouldn’t help her understand how or why it happened, negotiate on the bill, or help her figure out a way to pay it. She’s a 70 year old woman living alone, she clearly didn’t use that much water. Luckily she could afford it but it was…

I can’t use the fucking word ‘sad’ anymore. If I say something is sad (an article, movie, book, news of a person dying of cancer, etc) I feel like I’m using a made up word.

My only thought was this would not happen were she not a rich white woman.

Well I am shocked their business practices are not above board!

I know it’s not the point but Britney is looking fierce. Those abs are ah-mazing

No cost wasn’t the reason. There were a bunch of reasons, some included: a) I didn’t want to go foster to adopt because I didn’t think I could handle a last minute adoption falling through b) a lot of adoptions are open adoptions and the thought of an 18 year old going, ‘well I’m going to find my real mom’ literally…

I was extremely fortunate to have had ivf work for an unconventional situation. It’s not a sure thing for anyone and it’s really hard emotionally, physically, and financially .

Yes!! Why do so many people say “her body, her choice” but not for infertility. Guess what, it was my money, insurance didn’t even cover most of it, it really isn’t a burden on anyone for me to have gone through ‘my chicie’