This practice is called a statute of limitations. It varies from state to state, but basically the idea is that the longer time passes, the less chance there will be evidence remaining or witnesses with a clear memory of the crime that the police can investigate properly. Let's say I was robbed in 1970 by a guy in a…

It's a fancy southern rich girl sorority beach party, so it was more "Let's have an expensive catered dinner at Brittnie's step-dad's seaside mansion with all of our hot boyfriends." Probably no beer pong tables/rickety frat house staircases to navigate.

See, now that's just targeted, unfiltered cockishness.

I go to a very similar school in a very similar area, and let me tell you, UGA isn't alone in this tradition. There's a sorority at my school who has this party every year where the girls dress up in antebellum hoop skirt dresses and the guys wear loose trousers, suspenders and sunhats that essentially make them look…

Don't get me wrong: it's not PERFECT. But the book teaches a good lesson in not idolizing living breathing humans because they're living breathing humans, and not sexy mysteries to be solved.

Exactly like you said, he'd be the first to say he's not a perfect author. He answers a lot of questions about his novels on Tumblr and often engages in open dialogues about them online. He's always been upfront about how Paper Towns is a subversion of the romantic hero/MPDG trope, and honestly I think it's lazy when…

Not for nothing, but the book is entirely about deconstructing the manic pixie dream girl trope, and the main character basically learns that projecting his Heroic Male Needs onto an actual human woman with intellectual dimension is pretty dumb. Someone complained to John Green on Tumblr that the trailer seems to have…

When they do covers of plus-sized women, you can count on them being head shots 90% of the time and having at least half her body obscured in the remaining 10%. Here they seem to have married the two. Like, if her hair is all up in her face and you only see like 60% of her features she KIND OF looks 40 pounds…

I just finished watching (like 20 minutes ago) the Sound of Music special this bullet comes from and Diane asked her if she swears and Julie said she swears like a sailor all day long. I believe it.

So a few months ago my boyfriend's super conservative dad went off on how "Muslims" incited violence in Ferguson, like fuckin sleeper agents or some shit, and I made the most noncommittal face possible while trying to think of a way out of the conversation ("What do 50 year old southern republicans like that isn't…

Wish I could re-do my senior quote...

I read once that on the show, they mix products that came out years or decades before the episode takes place because in real life people don't replace their stuff with the most recent version and rather accrue belongings over a lifetime. I just think that's really cool. Like I'm three iPhones behind but if someone…

I want this but as like a movie or a mini-series. Or they should Boyhood it and put out like one long episode every year until Kiernan is sufficiently old.

It's like, ehhh. Sorry that happened to your son. Sorry that happened to your wife. You, on the other hand, I couldn't give a shit about.

Hey Mark, his sweaters say "Hello, friend," not "I'm your friend." And I'm pretty sure that's a tribute to his murdered son who used to say that as a greeting. Still doesn't make Cosby less of a rapey monster, but I just wanna make sure you get your facts straight.

Well that's disappointing :( The only two elections I've been aware of were 2008 and 2012, and 2016 will be the first time I'll be able to vote. What I want for 2016 is like a female 2008 Obama. I guess I'm just hoping that Hilary will turn into some progressive/liberal folk hero-type and run a campaign on change. But…

I cannot stop giggling in the student union at "worse than the AIDS crisis." For GOODNESS SAKE, PEREZ.

I think a lot has changed since 2008 in terms of discussing reproductive rights. Not enough, but a lot. For so long saying simply that abortion should be available and rare was controversial and alienating. I'm not sure how her official vocabulary will change, but I see this next election demanding a louder and more…

As I understand it, Roe v. Wade chose the 21 (24? I'm not sure, but it's more than 20) week cut off because that's the absolute earliest fetuses can survive WITH external medical care (breathing tubes, incubators, all kinds of life-saving procedures) long enough that they aren't counted as "dying at birth." Babies…

Reminds me of when some late-night writers (I think they worked for David Letterman) said he requested the women on staff to watch him eat noodles or some shit.