So because it’s not easy for LGBT Africans to claim asylum in the U.S., President Obama shouldn’t have said anything?

I actually just hiked around this area a week ago. You’d be surprised at how it can look if you down in the canyons near rivers or creeks (which still run). Lots of trees and undergrowth:

Who goes out on a first date in a big forest alone? That screams “YOU WILL BE MURDERED” to me.

Have you ever tried pouring water into your cheerios?

...mostly because they figured people should know that you can’t juice almonds:...

Oh no, it’s clear you don’t know what’s going on here. See, a woman couldn’t find childcare, so she decided to try to get the money to afford childcare by interviewing for a job, while her children were within eyesight. She was then arrested for this attempt to provide for her children. Bullshit, right?

This is a complicated question. For what it’s worth, here’s my two cents as a current cognitive neuroscience PhD student and a former social worker with the severely mentally ill: from the description of his behavior in the linked Yahoo News article, particularly his idea of “value units” and his obsession with the…

I’d like to ask a genuine question here, is everyone absolutely convinced that he was fully aware of what he was doing? From what I’ve read, he’s been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was experiencing psychosis . It’s so clear to me that this is someone with a profound mental illness, it doesn’t negate from he did, AT…

Yup. My dad did a lot of shitty things to me but that always made me the maddest. No matter how hard I tried to communicate with him, I was always told that I was just parroting my mom and lying about my feelings.

She sent them to Camp Tamarack, which is where my kids have gone every summer for years. It’s a very nice camp and the kids will be well cared for there. And my guess is a lot of their friends will be there as well. So I think it’s a decent decision.

The mother could be a monster and I would still think that the judge was abusive to those children. Her language was abusive. Putting them into juvie was abusive. The children need therapy, not jail.

This is Oakland County, MI, where we tried and convicted a 13-year-old kid as an adult in a murder case.

Because family court judges aren’t supposed to send kids to juvie. They don’t even have the jurisdiction to send kids to jail. The kids aren’t parties to the divorce.

You know, I thought so, too. And then I read this:

Ît never ceases to amaze me that so many people feel so qualified to comment on complex issues without even doing a minimal amount of research into what is actually going on. If you really think this judge us acting in a vacuum then you have no real experience in family court. Why the hell aren’t you taking a good…

Right? It’s like the ultimate gaslighting. You can’t possibly have independent thoughts! Someone must be telling you to hate your other parent because in literally every non-divorced household all the children get along swimmingly with both parents all of the time!

Absolutely! If there was some sort of reason to suppose the mother to be an unfit parent, hidden away in those files she refers to, then that might justify taking the kids away form their mother, but it would never justify treating the children like THEY are the ones who did something wrong! Her treatment of the…

Nothing creates the foundation for a healthy parent child-relationship like coercion: “You will bond with your father or you will learn to live life without your right thumb. Now, hug him. Hug him, damn it!”

I’m not defending what she did, I also think it’s fucked up, but I bet she’s sick and tired of seeing cases like this. I have a lot of friends/family who are in situations like this and it’s really common for one parent to ‘get in the heads’ of the children and convince them that they don’t want to see their other…

Cherkis points out, too, that Fowley always denied sexually abusing The Runaways, quoted in a 2013 band biography as saying, “They can talk about it until the cows come home but, in my mind, I didn’t make love to anybody in the Runaways nor did they make love to me.” And that may be right, in that “love” is no one’s…