The stuff that was reported to the State Department was never actually proven, so not sure if it was just her stirring up shit. From what I understand, just making the accusation is enough to get the visa he was on revoked.

Also, keep in mind that the among the reasons she didn’t win custody in the first place was the fact that she had to be asked repeatedly to put her ex’s name on their daughter’s birth certificate and that she tried to alienated the kids from their father.

Yeah, he actually did have a work visa and she got it revoked. She had her lawyers report financial dealings he was involved with that were improper to the State Department and now he is banned from entering the U.S. So the fact that the kids have to leave the country to see him is kind of her own doing. And it sounds…

Well, if she had kept them in the US he would have lost really important years with his own children he’d never get back — and if I understand visa restrictions, he would not have been able to travel to the US at all to visit his children and maybe that’s why the judge gave him custody? Because she could travel to…

How did she lost years? She has visitation rights during the school year and the kids got the spend the summers with her. Just because she doesn’t have full custody doesn’t mean she’s been cut from their lives. Why is her relationship with her kids more important than his relationship with his kids? Being a woman…

Poisoning murders are hard to pin down because many are written off as natural causes, many are written off as suicides, and many poisoning deaths ARE suicides. So it’s hard to tell if it’s “coming back” or if it never went away in the first place. Yes, forensic chemistry is much more accurate now but not every death…

Let’s not make this into the scary olympics.

Is it bad it makes me happy (even as a rape victim myself)? I just think that instead of transferring schools like I might have done to avoid the person, she said, “I’m not forgetting, and no one else is, either!” And having her friends by her side while she’s graduating? It’s awful, but it’s the best outcome of this…

Yep—and 21st century digital surveillance goes both ways (occasionally!) which is awesome. But the grab-bag of bigoted rationalizations is soooo full. “Take a joke,” “good people shouldn’t lose their jobs over one mistake,” “these are isolated instances,” freezin’ peaches, black on black crime, liberal media, and the…

People love to point out that decriminalization of sex work increases reported abuses. Yes, obviously, why would anyone bother reporting abuse in a system that is entirely illegal?

In a way, I love that these Neandrathals are now sending emails and posting on social media what once would have just been jocular racist women-hating buddy-buddy water-cooler talk. Thanks for the physical record of your douchebaggery, douchebags!

Thanks, I was trying to say that. It’s the same for Dame Edna. Dame Edna is a she. Barry Humphries is a he. It’s not as hard as it seems. Alice Cooper is a maniac. Vince Furnier is a pretty normal person. Etc, etc, etc.

According to wikipedia, Tom uses female pronouns to refer to Conchita, the drag queen he portrays, but male pronouns to refer to himself.

There’s a few interviews out there specifying that when referring to Conchita the character, female pronouns are used, but Tom out of drag uses male pronouns.

These are custom made items made by skilled people who are presumably making a living wage. That price point isn’t outlandish.

Yeah that’s how this works. Specialty projects are harder to make and therefore more expensive to make. I don’t understand why people assume things that are far removed from the pump and dump of mass distribution analogous crap should be just as cheap.

It definitely blows that they are so pricey, but it's probably hard to do custom dolls on the cheap like that. I'm just guessing. I don't know much about toy manufacturing. I do know that you need to take out a small loan to visit build-a-bear.

I bet she wanted to influence the Republican primary.

I get the Ellen Pompeo thing because she named one of her cats Dr. Meredith Gray. SO that begs the question: Where is Mariska Hargitay? (Det. Olivia Benson!!!)

Never Forget!