Check out the Erica Hill interview on “digging in with the Duggar’s”: Jessa jokes about keeping the baby’s gender a secret, to which josh responds “like you can keep a secret”.. Given the history between the two....kind of a creepy thing to say in any context.

Agreed. It’s super insulting to men — paints them as moronic monsters with zero control of themselves. If I were a guy, I’d be protesting this shit big time. Embarrassing!

Two five year olds looking at each other’s wee wees are “Playing Doctor”. A 15 year old adolescent molesting a five year old is not. Never mind that there were multiple victims, multiple occasions over several years, and often the victims were originally asleep, so they weren’t ‘playing’ anything.

““Many times it is simply lack of opportunity or fear of consequences that keep us from falling into grievous sin even though our fallen hearts would love to indulge the flesh.”

they’re not insane. they’re just fucked. they seriously think this shit is okay because they’ve been raised believing that everybody is a fucking molester/rapist except they don’t do anything because god. we are talking about communities where people like this fucking thrive, because they know if they get caught with…

Ok. A ton of kids play doctor. But the pretend patient is always awake. This is more like backalley unlicensed anesthesiologist.

If they had to save their first kiss for their husband on their wedding day, it’s a shame they weren’t allowed to save their first breast and genital fondling for him on that day as well.

I think true forgiveness can be beautiful and freeing—mostly for people who are extending it. Too often, though, people like the Duggars use it as a way of acting like “I apologized and you have to forgive me, because Jesus. And if you don’t then you’re terrible.” And then they skip off into the sunset. That’s not…

I used to work in a law firm and they stuck me with the partner that did divorces for a bit.

When you feel truly guilty about something, that feeling is usually accompanied by shame and profound embarrassment. You can’t even think about what you did without feeling like shit. You would never joke about it. When you truly fuck up and feel super guilty, in any situation, you don’t make jokes about it like “Lol…

Oh, the irony of the fireworks. So many combat veterans have PTSD and loathe them. Our next door neighbor had been a Captain in Vietnam. the poor man loathed the 4th of July. Even drinking, which he generally didn’t do, wasn’t enough. He was very social, but he always wound up going home early. I was little but I knew…

Fuck Josh Duggar and his smug face, his “youthful indiscretions,” and, most of all, his goddamn disgusting parents for rewarding his behavior with a television show. Also: Fuck TLC because there is literally no way in hell they did not do background research.

“Higher than in the general population” DOES NOT mean “all cops are sociopaths” or even “most cops are sociopaths.” I know many cops personally and they are kind, generous people who care deeply about the people that they serve. Each of them would be deeply affected by dealing with a case like this.

Sadly it’s not even close for me. I once did a postpartum home visit to find that the infant had died several days before but the mother was still bathing and dressing the little body and frantic because “She just won’t eat.” I suspect this will turn out to be something similar. Grief can do some powerfully tragic…

12yo black kid shot=shouldn’t have played with a toy gun. 14yo white kid molests multiple girls=he was just a child, he didn’t know. Mkay.

when hard-right Christianists say ‘deviant’ what they mean is ‘gay’, ‘transgender’, ‘minority’, ‘feminist’, ‘liberal’ or, in all likelihood, ‘anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian man’.

When the fuck did Hugh Grant’s face transform into that?

Re: the Method Man story, I get it, he has religious reasons for freaking out BUT I am going to say ‘Why you comin at me with them pork ass hands!?’ s CONSTANTLY. In response to EVERYTHING EVER.

In the summer of 2001, I randomly boarded the same Tokyo-LAX flight as Sofia Coppola. I was obsessed with Sofia since I’d watched The Virgin Suicides and also loved her fashion style and her teensy, Hollywood proto-hipster boutique Heaven 27.

Mine will have to be a Blind Item lest I doxx myself. The celebrity in question is a actress in her 30s who has done movies but is better known for her television work. She’s also much nicer than this story makes her sound. That said...