This is so pointless. Biology doesn’t determine family. Adoption is a thing. Step-parenthood is a thing. Sometimes, as Maury says, you are not the father. That doesn’t make you a human trafficker.

What I was trying to say is that everything published before 1924 is in the public domain, and thus, most works anyone has ever heard of are available online for free.

So I assume you don’t own a hard copy of any book that was published before 1924?

You know a writer is struggling for takes when she begins attacking the idea of a book....

Ugh, I know! And what about those people buying bound copies of like. Jane Eyre, Shakespeare plays, and everything else in the public domain when you can totally just get all that shit online for free!

MEH!

I think the Splinter writers and commentariat would prefer four more years of Trump over an actual Democratic president. It’s St. Bernard or bust.

It probably doesn’t. Maintaining the status quo ante also will also not improve the lives of Ms. Espinal (say her name) or their son, because under that status quo, they were already in serious danger.

But how would this website get clicks? How would cable news get eyeballs?People read the tabloid-style coverage of political figures (both you and I did), and people in media crave attention.

He’s probably hiding in one of his mansions with his other victims “girlfriends.”

The beginning of this was heartbreaking.

I was waiting for someone to bring up those very natural-looking lip fillers.

Some failures to appear (FTA) are deliberate, but not all of them are the result of poor life choices. When I was a judicial law clerk, the number one reason for FTAs was probably “I forgot,” and I think most of them were telling the truth. We all forget shit sometimes, and a lot of defendants have a lot going on in…

When you have a billion dollars, you can dress however you want because you’re already at the pinnacle. But even Mark Zuckerberg of the gray t-shirts and unflattering jeans wore a suit to testify before Congress. There’s a time and a place for everything.

Many school administrators and teachers seem to have an authoritarian streak. This is just one expression of that. My jaw dropped when I read they turned away the mom who was coming to enroll her kid in the school. Enforcing this policy delayed the child’s enrollment in a school she has a right to attend for an…

Jesus wept.

Neither do I.  Stars--they’re just like us!

Ariel’s sisters were basic AF (like her, tbh). I always assumed that Sebastian and Flounder were on the payroll for some reason.

Vomit is definitely less pleasant than pooping, but I feel like it doesn’t have the shock factor of shit. 

Childbirth.  Babies are cute, but the process of bringing them into the world is decidedly not.