I find myself out of sync with a lot of this. Yes, her death is sad, but let's not fool ourselves. Just like MJ's death, this was someone who appears to have been wasting her talent and more importantly her life because of pretty obvious drug problems. There is a danger in failing to account for that in all of the…

@Plate2.18: I'm not judgmental about drugs, per se. Plenty of people dabble and precious few die prematurely from using drugs. What I am judgmental about is that a young woman of talent pretty obviously threw her life away on what most people recognized was a serious drug habit. Whether it actually killed her is,…

I feel like in general something is going on with Vicki. She has seemed very low affect and uncharacteristically unbubbly this season. Until this episode, I liked the change because it seemed like she was less judgmental and catty and seemed to be a more reflective person; now I wonder if some clinical depression…

@quatrevingtquatre: I agree. I do think Vicki could have snapped out of it and had a good time, but the larger point is right on. These men are just repellent. Nouveau riche thugs (only now two of them are nouveau poor) on parade.

@lilyc: My aunt lives in Newport Beach and told me this summer that Coto is kind of looked down on by folks from the beach communities, who don't see it as being representative of the whole county. She said this particular community is undistinguished and is now kind of a joke for the people in her town. I wonder if…

@Scout: as would *lots* of antipsychotic drugs

This Courtney Love mess is the best argument I've seen for stronger privacy settings on Facebook all week. I don't want to know this. She's such a sad train wreck.

Yoko Ono, making no sense since 1969.

Only umpires can fairly be said to simply "Call it like they see it." When you express an opinion about why more movies by women aren't made, you are not operating in a binary universe (i.e. "was the ball in or was it out"). Mr. Dergarabedian are an asshole for seeing the universe as binary, or at least defined and…

Great reporting — but he should know that his soundbyte is all that will be reported by less careful journalists, and that's a bit depressing.

@gold_gato: It's got to be a typo.

Drinking your own vomit? That may be the grossest thing I've ever heard.

@SlappySquirrel: Given the article's mention that both men and women have complained, the HR dept had best take it down asap — agreed.

Wow — this is a boatload of awesome. Right on, sister!

No, it does not qualify as sexual harassment. It could be used as some evidence of alleged harassment, but one incident will not establish a legal claim.

@GGobsessed: The Roma have been a dispossessed and hated people in many coutries over there. I think it has in part to do with the fact that they are an insular group who tend not to intermarry — which adds to the sense of their otherness. There also is — whether right or not — their association with petty…

@dripdrop: I am sure she lives at home, that's how. She's a Staten Island princess.

@bluebears: well, if she had done that, fine. But she has made the choice to keep the baby a central feature of her political persona.

@Ginmar Rienne: I certainly agree that that is true.

@bluebears: I guess I don't see discussions about her pregnancy as sexist. I have never given birth, but I know people who have (and happen to have a uterus). Does that mean I can't agree with him that the time line and her decisions are weird at the very least and raise some questions — especially in light of her…