And exactly how has the mother rationalized that this alleged child abuse led her son (not the one abused) to stab his girl friend 25 times under the influence of PCP? She’s trying to change the narrative, but it doesn’t even make any sense if it were true. 

Huh, that doesn’t sound like ‘unharmed’ at all; that sounds like no ‘serious’ injuries. And a Kia can flip a Range Rover? I will never get why people think SUVs are safer than lower cars. 

Neither of them came from wealth of any kind and whatever they made previous to their run for the white house they made on their own. Neither chose legal fields, community work, or academic careers as great money makers. The majority of their wealth comes from the books they have both written. I won’t argue with where…

Do  you really not understand this? Really? If people do shitty things and are seen to suffer no real consequences, doesn’t that encourage those same behaviors? I will boycott (and encourage others to boycott) people, corporations, etc that are shitty in an attempt to change their behavior and more importantly, the…

and that venue seats hundreds, hundreds! A name will always be able to get a few people in- it means little. If he sells out Madison Square Garden or the Staples Center, that would be different, but that’s unlikely 

Bu...bu....but family values?

must chime in as literal pickle- no bootstrap tho

I assume his defense is that it’s not slander/defamation because he believes it to be true, but he admitted during his divorce circus that he didn’t believe what he said and that he was simply an entertainer. I don’t know why that alone hasn’t been enough to prove these cases against him. 

This hasn’t changed much, if at all. Look at what’s going on with R Kelly, how many millennials like Lady Gaga (to name just one) turned a blind eye WAY after the facts were impossible to ignore?

Yep, ‘cause we can only talk about one thing at a time. We have to research the single greatest injustice in the world and just focus on that until it’s fixed and then move onto the next, etc. 

I wish the interviewer had asked her about his years of denial, gaslighting, and career harming he did to women who spoke out. That, to me, adds a whole extra dimension of awful.

An ask isn’t the same as a question, so I wouldn’t put them together. You can ask someone lots of things that don’t require something concrete (a raise, a letter of rec, etc) from the person you are asking the question of. An ‘ask’ is akin to a request for a favor. All asks are questions, but all questions aren’t…

That works too, but I like having a good number of books. My personal library is one that I browse and think about occasionally. I’ll see a copy of book I read and loved years ago and seeing it makes me think about it and often reconsider it again. A public library (which I use all the time) can’t do that for me. The…

That sounds reasonable. To me, having quite a few books is somewhat like having art on my walls. I don’t mean that in a purely decorative way, I mean that when I’m browsing my shelves looking for something, seeing the titles of books I’ve loved reminds me of them and makes me think about what they had to say again. I…

Much like Kondo’s book, people may take and appreciate something from a book, but not agree with all of it.

I don’t think physical books are going to go away, or at least not for a good long time. Studies are being done about why people aren’t able to retain as much when they read off the internet/a tablet. College students are, surprisingly, still saying they prefer reading actual book/textbooks because of the superior…

If he’s not on bail, and I assume he’s not, jail will likely be worse than prison- so there’s that. 

OMG, did you see Captain Fantastic? I had SO many problems with that film. But the scene in which Viggo urges his daughter to really talk about her thoughts on Lolita (not to summarize) and then she rhapsodizes about the tragedy of Hubert’s great, searing love for Dolores while Viggo nods along with sage approval was…

A 30 year old guy and I dated when I was 20. We both mistook the other’s age for a quite a few dates until we ran into a friend of mine who was a server and had to card me. He kind of freaked out which I thought was weird at the time, but I now respect a lot more. Note, we continued to date for a bit until he came and…

I didn’t really realize how much of it I got until it stopped either. You do just normalize a lot of it, I think. It’s not until you suddenly realize that men’s eyes don’t stop and assess as they pass by you, the endless comments about your appearance, dating life, etc, etc. that you realize how accustomed you were to…