I don’t want this either. But if it must be so, I want Kristen Bell to play Mary Poppins. I have no idea why, it just feels right to me.

They get away with it because every story is true. Tabloids are real.

Thank you for this comment! I’m an attorney myself though I specialize in elder exploitation and abuse.

Responses like yours are frustrating, and there are several similar ones in these comments, so this reply isn’t directed at you personally. But as a felony prosecutor who’s prosecuted many domestic violence cases, no, prosecutors don’t “regularly” get convictions without victim testimony. “Carefully” documenting…

The fact that the woman's life is in danger is probably the exact effing reason the judge was so pissed that she didn't show up. The judge probably was forced to release the abuser when she didn't show.

This.

I think that’s police code for being an insufferable asshole while drunk.

thank you for reminding me that I am privileged enough to live in a time when Daniel Dae Kim exists!

Is someone seriously suggesting that even asking this question is problematic? That in a “free” society, to even raise the question is wrong?

Let’s be realistic, this would be a major issue if it happened to anyone other than your stan. I don’t think you guys would be staning so hard if it were Biden or Bernie in the same situation.

I’m kind of surprised that, as a subsidiary of Gawker, they didn’t decline to name his assailants, and then out the victim as gay.

You’re thinking of the Trumpback whale.

It seems no matter what vehicle she attempts to use she’s doomed to be pedestrian.

She has the same right to do that as you do and have done.

Doesn’t she get to define her own experience?

Boo, I don’t much care for nepotism. She only got a show because of her Grandfather. It’s not like she’s a better cook than any other tv chef. Nigella Lawson's crazy ass is better. Mainly I’m just angry that there isn’t a Swedish Chef cooking show.

What a nice man (who is wrong).

We all have to start somewhere

Boston has one of the highest per capita rates of liquor consumption of any major American metro area. (Source: Something I read once, and I’ve lived there.)

“She even started saving for gender reassignment surgery at the age of five.”