If you actually read the stories, she did her damnedest to protect her kids with her life. Her abusive husband repeatedly told her that if she tried to escape or defied him, he would murder her kids in front of her. If, instead, she let herself be beaten, he apparently stuck to beating her and did not physically harm…

It’s insane, but it keeps happening.

Yeah, I don’t really get why people are mad at her on this one. I don’t know much about her (I am old and largely oblivious to Disney kids and such), but even I know that’s she been very public about how she’s struggled with disordered eating since she was a little kid, and how hard it’s been for her to try to retrain…

Burton was the original Arthur; Goulet was the original Lancelot. So their song (which I presume was “If Ever I Would Leave You”) would indeed have been sung by Goulet.

You missed “sereptitiously” and “me thinks.” On top of generally being a fucking moron, Mike Pence apparently also can’t spell for shit.

Heh, I’ve been involuntarily singing that to myself for weeks. Every time anyone says “Trump/Pence” out loud, my brain decides that’s an excuse to start up the song again.

I think it’s very possible to believe that the cup-size ban is a fairly ineffective band-aid when it comes to addressing Americans’ unhealthy eating habits, and to think that it’s probably somewhat of an overreach on the part of the government, while also believing that the sort of people who think “if you really want…

Christ, every time I see a picture of Trump’s penthouse and the shit he puts in it, I think I’ve seen the pinnacle of tackiness, and then the next picture will appear to make my eyes bleed anew. I feel like even a baby would be too embarrassed to be caught dead in that idiotic monstrosity of a stroller. (And don’t…

Even if Kim’s freaking fashion choices had any bearing on whether or not she was admirable (which they don’t, and it’s insane that that needs to be said), most humans do not actually need to admire someone to think they don’t deserve to go through something profoundly traumatic. Not wanting celebrities you don’t…

Your last line is a huge part of why this makes me so angry.

Calling arguments “nonsense” and then failing to rebut them in any way isn’t particularly persuasive, you know.

Heh, fair enough. It’s always hard to tell on the internet. :)

This is a bit of a silly objection considering both that she didn’t just “take his name” but rather combined it with hers (she is never called “Ruth Ginsburg” instead of “Ruth Bader Ginsburg”), and that she and Marty explicitly and publicly had an egalitarian marriage where both of them contributed equally to…

I will never understand why every time this topic comes up, people act like victims can either report their rape to the cops or to their university, but not both. It is fine to suggest that victims should go to the cops, but the “and also they shouldn’t tell anyone on campus about the rapist in their midst and the…

Don’t you know that “name a thing you read/have read” is a “gotcha question” when directed at a Republican candidate? They can’t be expected to be able to name a newspaper or a book! That’s just the evil mainstream liberal media being out to get them with these crazy, unpredictable, trick questions like “give us some…

To bring this comment thread and another one together, I am now wondering what “persona” was used in the creation of those damn Charmin bears. “Please create an ad campaign for Jane. She’s a middle-class mom in her late thirties with two young children - oh, and also, she’s a furry with a poop fetish.”

Heh. I literally knew that was going to be AWAAN BUWW just from the screenshot. That was a good ad.

If it helps a little bit, he might not hit on them, since he has repeatedly (and revoltingly) expressed his preference for tall women with big boobs. Gymnasts are likely to be about as safe from him as any young woman could be.

I think it’s mostly just what happens when you give someone with naturally “sleepy” eyes and very prominent cheekbones a severe hairdo and put her under harsh lighting. I suspect if she let her hair down and stepped into natural light, she’d immediately look perfectly healthy without anything else having changed.

While I have no interest in defending these particular works (which appear to be complete shit), I do think it’s important not to fall into the “you don’t need technical skill to do this, therefore it isn’t art” trap. There are some genuinely brilliant modern and contemporary art pieces that did not require technical…