with one unnamed person calling her situation a “soap opera” and “accusing her of flirting with her harasser.”

Seriously though Ellen Barkin for President:

LOL, I definitely get that. My dad is the same, tried really hard to do well and definitely was far from perfect but somehow his memory of himself as a father is like some kind of saint. I’m pretty sure he would delude himself into thinking we also would “need” him despite having taken care of ourselves as adults as…

This Week In Tabloids: Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar Are Divorcing After 31 Years of Nonstop Babymaking

Nine-year-old you sounds fierce as fuck. Well done insisting on talking to the judge.

The whole subtext of this piece is that he wants to keep freelancing instead of working on the books. He is most definitely under-reporting his income, and he’s probably not paying his taxes either.

yes, its very exclusive

They appropriate exclusivity. They’re cliques!

What happened to Mischa Barton that she ended up on DWTS? I know she was big on the OC and then....?

I can deal with that, autocorrect/spellcheck and no real editors to review anything at the Gawk. What makes him a poor writer is that he seems to have embellished a lot of incidental information and side-story and tangent and left out much of the story itself. Either that or the other parts of the story are so…

I was a journalist. I got out (through an excruciatingly long job hunt during the recession conducted in my spare time) when it became evident that I couldn’t support myself and my loved ones and now work a day job and freelance in my spare time to scratch my creative itch. This dude’s story annoys me.

That is pretty baaaaad.

For all intensive purposes, I found that pretty funny

Sorry, this is not true. That money, legally, is a reimbursement to the parent who paid out of pocket for those expenses. That’s why kids who try to go after dad for “their money” are told to kick rocks.

Do you know how hard it is to edit carefully and nurse a cortado in those overstuffed chairs at the Ace Hotel? All those people coming and going and chattering away. It’s enough to make a man swear off Stumptown.

That’s more a failure of Gawker’s (probably nonexistent) copy editing department. Although people who write for Gawker should understand that and proof their own stuff carefully (especially ones who are partially doing it to get noticed by other outlets).

Yeah, this thing was barely coherent. It needs a copy editor. I really don’t want to hate on this dude, and yes, taking away someone’s driver’s license (or putting them in jail) for essentially not making enough money is just insanely, cruelly counterproductive, and we should fix those kinds of things in the system.…

It depends. The arrears are owed to the parent, but the ongoing payments are considered owed to the child.

Don’t forget “between my daughter’s mother and I.”

You’re a professional writer and you think the phrase is, “on the lamb?”