My mother was pretty honest about my father when they got divorced (she didn’t come out and say “Your father is an abusive asshole,” but since we had all witnessed him being an abusive asshole there wasn’t any real way she could have hidden it). My father, by contrast, mounted a massive propaganda campaign when she…

If the kid actually watched his father strike his mother, I think he’s perfectly justified in refusing to see him. My siblings and I watched our father verbally and emotionally abuse our mother, and most of us frequently refused to see him after their divorce, too.

I’m glad Paris Hilton is suing. That was extremely fucked up.

I had no idea so few cats are indoor-only. Mine are, and they’re great at taking down invertebrate invaders.

Having finally heard Rachel Dolezal’s voice, I’m now wondering: how the hell was anyone fooled for even a second?

Hahahaha, I would never have guessed that in a million years. (Am ~105% white, mostly via British Isles.) I thought it was either a pronunciation shibboleth or some quirk of manners that would only stand out to another black person. Thanks for clearing that up. : )

Her ‘kitchen’? You mean the way she said the word, or what? (Just curious.)

In all the parties I’ve been to in the States, presents are always opened in front of the guests, because the guests like to see the recipient’s reaction when they open the box.

Not to mention that women’s hair, especially long hair like she had, is HEAVILY sexualized in our culture and any kind of “shaming” punishment involving hair-cutting has strong sexual overtones. The dad needs to be looked into, seriously.

Yeah, nonconsensual hair-cutting as punishment strikes me as really creepy—an assault on the kid’s bodily integrity. I think it creeps me out as much as if he’d pulled her clothes off or something.

Mine have always been crazy irregular—I’ve gone three and four months without, had two in a month, whatever. If on top of that you already have some extra weight around your middle, and you have a smaller-than-average baby bump, I can see getting pretty far without finding out. It actually happened to someone I…

I looked at the picture of Reese at the top and thought actually it was kind of pretty, and then I scrolled down and got it. : /

Sounds like he really, really wanted to be friends with Russell Crowe. Poor maladjusted Michael Jackson. You can't really imagine him developing any normal social skills, can you?

He is looking really handsome these days.

Yeah, I mostly get the sense that he's really, really into himself and can't get over how clever he is to have thought of this. Also, that hair.

What is this??

Emma Watson is basically already royalty, and certainly outranks Prince Harry on the public-esteem scale.

It's true, but high school graduates are mostly teenagers and therefore (in most cases) not really adults.

I think that would be a great milestone to celebrate, and I also think it would be great to mark the 25th or so birthday with a "welcome to adulthood" initiation/celebration. You'd need some kind of symbol to take the place of the cap and gown/wedding ring, but I really do think it would be rewarding to mark and…

Actually, I am enough of a goody-two-shoes that I probably would have called whatever customer hotline I could find to let them know their restaurant was unstaffed, and possibly hung around after that to make sure someone took over. : / I blame my Mormon upbringing.