For some reason I read the wikipedia page on it a few months ago. I was too young to follow the case at all in the 90s, but was aware that it was a thing going on. It was perhaps the most bizarre, sad thing I’ve ever read. Especially the ransom note that just quoted a bunch of early 90s movies.

Where is OJ Simpson being Khloe Kardashian’s biological father on your list?

Well, an age difference like that is troubling, particularly when a marriage proposal is involved, since wtf do 19 year olds know about what they want to do with the rest of their life, but her dad was an Earl so she was already in the rarified world of the British peerage, so that seems to temper the Prince thing —…

Heh, I did like it up to the ending, which I remember disappointing me. 8 or 9 year old me was like, “Love? That’s it? Fucking really? Psht.”

I think I might have been the only kid on the planet who hated this book.

Just a note — criminal and civil liability are different animals. You can be held civilly liable for something that you won’t be found criminally liable for because there are different standards of evidence. So for Dr. Luke to be found civilly liable for the rape and abuse Kesha alleges, there does not need to be a…

It’s not the 5th, but spousal privilege that she might try to invoke, but I’m not entirely sure how spousal privilege works or if it would work in her case.

Yeah, after this correction, where it seems like Meryl is not saying “white people count as diversity” (which is ludicrous) but “I can relate to films from other cultures because we share a common humanity,” (which is utterly uncontroversial) the people who need redemption (which still seems like a strong word) are…

I thought we were talking about business attire? School dress codes are a different animal, particularly because they are generally less concerned about whether an item is too casual, and entirely concerned about whether or not an item of clothing is revealing or “distracting,” which makes them much more likely to…

I don’t think anyone would call someone who reprimanded an employee for showing up to a business formal meeting in a tube dress a slut-shamer as the issue with the dress isn’t that it’s “slutty” it’s that it is flouting the office dress code, the same as the guy who shows up in cargo shorts.

This is kind of apples to oranges. It’s one thing to have conventions or rules about what one wears in a business setting, and these typically apply to men and women. If you show up to your business formal workplace in a skin-tight tube dress, that is not appropriate, but I don’t think anyone would argue that your…

Shit, looks like they did:

Since it sounds like this was a close-to-term pregnancy, maybe the question should be, was the fetus alive for some period between being taken from her mother’s womb and being declared dead at the hospital? Is this something an ME could determine? Like, if she took a breath could you determine that by examining her…

The pope actually did suggest an openness to contraception earlier today as it relates to Zika affected countries:

Actually the pope suggested earlier today that vis a vis Zika they might be okay:

Yeah, it’s definitely tense. But good!

I’ve seen Bloomberg’s partner and Guiliani’s ex referred to as such as well. She didn’t start it, but I don’t know if people just started doing that and it caught on, or if it’s actually an official title.

So in addition to being, like, phenomenally talented, he also wins at being a cool person? I like when things work out this way.

I think, for nyc, it’s at least semi-official:

Yeah these tweets kinda remind me of that episode of Clarissa Explains It All where she creates a computer program to write avant-garde poetry for her.