Rural Southern California is scary. And I’m from rural Appalachia so that’s saying something.

Is anyone else bothered by the use of certain euphemisms for genitalia? I know someone who refers to her kids’ vagina/penis as “naughty bits,” and it makes me kinda nauseous.

My first thought was Bichon.

Is this for real? This has to be a joke, right? WTF did I just read?

I agree with you. I believe her. I think he did it. I think he’s a drunk and gross. I also think she is gross. It’s possible to hold both two thoughts in our minds same time.

he suddenly morphed without pause from being a sickly looking preteen to being a flabby, disreputable looking middle aged man

This is 100% true. He has not only never, ever been hot, he has never once in his life looked like a functioning person of his own age. I am *roughly* the same age as he is (within 3 or 4 years, I think), and all through his “heartthrob” years, I thought women my age who found him hot were disgusting, because he…

We really need to overhaul the entire justice system - not just our police forces - all of it. Our training, our hiring practices, psych evaluations, the policing culture, everything from the bottom up.

I went to the first Lollapalooza in 91(?) and I managed to keep it together.

Under the Banner of Heaven is the best place to start.

I would totally recommend it. It’s like an amazing overview of all of the different FLDS sects. You’ll know a lot of it, but it’s so well written. And if you liked Sound of Gravel (how sad that was!), several of Verlan LeBaron’s wives have written books. I would recommend both by Irene Spencer (Cult Insanity and…

“escape” by Carolyn Jessop is the most popular/a great place to start. ‘stolen innocence’ by elissa wall is my personal favorite

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer is good.

the FLDS are so sad and so fascinating to read about. i think ive read like 20 memoirs of former members at this point (including fundamentalist mormons that arent FLDS)

And how they try to make it some kind of sick “bonding” experience—we all went through the fire together and we’re STRONG! Horseshit. Abuse is abuse and no “creative” gloss changes that.

I hate to break it to you, but this mess is really all your daddy’s fault.

“A little lost boy”?!?

Oh, look, more evidence of Amber’s abuse people won’t admit as legit because they think Gone Girl is the most common scenario in society, instead of an entitled angry addict becoming violent towards a woman. Now it makes sense why she was carrying her laptop while leaving her lawyer’s office. Wonder who will get the…

“It’s very rare that someone is involved in a homicide case with someone they just had a baby with. It’s very early to make a conclusion as to what the cause, intent, motive and facts were to this unfortunate tragedy.”

I just cannot EVEN with any of this shit anymore. I intend to spend the entire day tomorrow looking at pics of Obama with kids, alternated with pics of the baby princess for variety. They are the only thing that are going to keep my head out of the oven over this election cycle and the goddamn Target bathroom thing. I…