“We’re mostly commiserating over the fact that… just 24-hour parenting is not human.” What. Pretty sure a vast majority of humans (particularly of the female variety) over history would disagree with this.

I know this is referring to an almost 20 year old book but I had a similar reaction to Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto which won lots of awards and made her famous, but in which she took (without explicitly acknowledging anywhere in the book, a foreword or afterword) a very real, very painful, very controversial event rooted…

I should have specified; the lenient sentence he was requesting was community service. For a child molester.

Yeah, and it’s not just Baylor... there’s also this time where he wrote a letter to a judge requesting a lenient sentence for a friend of his who was a serial child molester, and oh yeah, he also represented Epstein. You could say there’s a bit of a pattern there (except when it comes to Clinton!).

There was another anecdote from this book in the Sunday Times, where a letter arrives to Carly ostensibly from Placido Domingo - saying how magnificant he thinks she is. She calls up her ‘friend’ Jackie and Jackie responds “[Ha ha] Did you really think it was from Placido Domingo?” So basically Jackie sent Carly a…

The report I read earlier today, can’t remember now, said his security guard pulled him out through the window and walked him home which is probably the very very very last thing you ever want to do with someone with spinal injuries. A witness said they saw them walking and Hart was incoherent. Also, the security…

That’s true. And the ‘bad manners’ are often chalked up to cultural differences or even excused because the perpetrator has had to deal with such traumatic issues and situations in their line of work that it’s understandable that they’d need to ‘blow off steam.’ Everyone just nods and looks the other way.

I believe it. The circles are relatively small and so insular. A lot of these guys are well liked, ‘bad behaviour’ not withstanding (“he’s only like that when he’s really drunk, otherwise he’s a sound bloke, it’s all in good fun anyway...”). I’m honestly not sure how or if these cultures can be changed. People who…

I looked this guy up on facebook, even though I thought he probably would have deleted his account, just to see if we have any journalist friends in common. He has not removed his account and his website is still active - and we do have a friend in common though it’s an odd one and not a journalist. Anyway - having…

You’re right. According to her, as of last year, she’s been wearing a bra to bed every night since she was 16. So I’m thinking the No Bra Club post was a successful attempt at getting views and clicks.

You know these are the same people who call liberals snowflakes - and you know they see no irony in that.

Yeah - and as someone who uses the site a LOT to do a lot of genealogy for African-American family and friends I think there’s more going on. In the last two years it’s become almost impossible to search the slave schedules to identify individual white owners pre 1865. I will search for someone I know lived in a…

That was my question too. The LA Times Article has a source saying it’s because she is actively involved in steps to defend her son. I can see why that would be a problem for an organization with a core belief that the victim should always be believed. 

How are you grey?!

Hmm I’m guessing Anna Wintour means she receives them before sunrise. I get a lot of e-mails from my colleagues before sunrise but that’s because they, like Meghan Markle, are in the UK, and I, like Anna Wintour, am on the East Coast of the US. My colleagues are aware that while I am often up before sunrise (thanks…

Just a shot in the dark here but the athlete is Alina Kabaeva right?

Nope, she voted against Kavanaugh but made it clear that the abortion issue wasn’t her reason for doing so.

It’s been fixed - thank you for that!

I can’t figure out why she keeps being missed on these annual roundups of great books (she got an afterthought kind of mention last year). Come on!

NK Jemisin, NK Jemisin, NK Jemisin, NK Jemisin FOREVER!!!