I was gonna call this a humblebrag about going to Penn, but since the tone is actually stridently arrogant that doesn’t really fit. I guess it is just a good ol’ Oblique Brag about your Ivy alma mater.

My aunt gave me some great advice when I was a single mom with a newborn, and people were giving me shit because I let him sleep with me sometimes in his first year. She said, “If you and the baby are alive and you able to stay sane, then you’re doing alright.”

Everything will be okay. The mother had a nervous breakdown because the father died. The kids will wander from place to place trying to find an aunt that lives in Connecticut. The aunt isn’t very nice and makes them work and stuff. But then the kids will meet a really nice stranger hippy sort who will take them in for…

TMZ sensationalizes things, but I understand the urge to make the distinction. Child pornography could be 16 year olds- that’s also wrong, but when you’re looking at very small children being raped....that’s a different type of disgusting and fucked up. It also involves a different level of physical damage and the…

I’m fine with the mom getting more time than the kid, personally.

This has been under-reported. The parents did fuck up. As much as “affluenza” is the abuse of a 10 cent sociological term, he was a minor at the time of the accident. You couldn’t hold him responsible in the same way as you would an adult. Perhaps the judge’s error was in not taking the hint from Ethan’s defense…

He’s got some kind of personality disorder, possibly caused or exacerbated by his shitty goddamn parents, in particular, his crazy, drug-addict mom who is trying to show him how cool she is now that she and his dad are divorced. Among other things, he was living by himself in a house that was essentially his,…

I agree. I wasn’t going to get “new mommies” anyway so I wound up with good friends. I also think that love found him because he never really “dated”.

The Baron Cohen family is one I have a huge amount of respect for. Smart, kind, conscientious people; Sacha’s cousin Simon is the world’s foremost autism researcher. It’s no surprise that half of this donation is going towards vaccinations.

Seriously. I am so tired of this ruse.

Agreed. Just because she’s having a really good few years, career-wise, doesn’t mean it’s cool to make fun of someone with substance abuse issues. I’m not saying you have to like her, or think well of her, but just...maybe don’t reach so hard for a joke that ultimately punches down?

Extremely petty and unnecessary is what I think it's like Lindsay's not relevant OR competition to Jennifer why bother even bringing her up? Like have they even MET before ?

I agree. It still wouldn’t be a very good joke if a private person told it privately, but for someone at Lawrence’s level of fame to kick a former fellow starlet when she’s down is another matter entirely. She’s gotta remember, people do take note of what she says.

I think it was a pretty crappy thing for Jlaw to say and she should apologize.

Reading Heller’s piece, I had immediate dislike of these two. There’s no one more insufferable than an intellectual teenager. For all the good Haysom has done in prison, based on her Twitter feed, she’s still grating, even as a much older and supposedly wiser woman. (There’s also the reason that she may have been the…

Didn’t know who it belonged to? But it belonged to her? She didn’t remember having sex with another dude in the previous few days? It’s possible, I suppose.

The comments on this thread are really making me upset. I feel like people are shaming people for being upset about losing functionality of an expensive product at a time when they need it most. People on this program are working hard to lose weight and it’s hard enough to do especially at Thanksgiving. I don’t think…

Actually, your condescension is a bit off since the points ruler bit the dust years ago. The plan has changed many times over the decade. There is a formula still, but you generally need a calculator for it.

A lot of people with bi-polar (which I think she suffers from) do tend to speak negatively of their friends and family, especially when in a depressive state, but most of the time it tends to be the illness speaking. The illness can completely distort your relationships with those closest to you and makes you think…

I mean, perhaps they would cherish them and it would be cool, but I feel like that’s a big burden to put on a tiny baby. Ughhh. It’s like demanding they play the part of Harry Potter.