As it happens, this week I got my American citizenship. I’ve been a permanent resident since 2003. The only thing that made me change my mind about actually getting citizenship was Trump’s fuckery. It became evident that it doesn’t matter how ‘close’ to citizenship you are - it’s a binary field. Citizen or not. 1 or…

Not sure where you were going with this, but Prince Philip is a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (who was born in Greece, but anyway), Queen Victoria’s husband and consort (and 1st cousin) Prince Albert was born into German aristocracy in Coburg, Germany, and the Windsor family has only…

That’s crazy! But I’m happy he/she came forward. A lot of leaks seem to come from people who are concerned with this administration.

Right! I have 2 mental illnesses that I have been treated for and are under control. If you CHOOSE not to take your meds, you ARE a bad person, and what you do is your fault.

I’m a history hipster, so I drop trou and pick up Erik Larson.

I have never felt like a defense of mental illness applied to this woman. Mental illness isn’t a social construct that should be applied anytime someone does something horrific that doesn’t appear to follow social norms. Some people just make the decision to harm others out of spite, vengeance, selfishness (look at…

Cash bars at weddings are THE WORST. That is all.

You know how many people have mental issues and financial issues? A lot. And they don’t take to murdering children. In no way do these things frame this horrible situation in a way that make me feel bad for this woman. What she did was beyond savage.

This has nothing to do with her being an immigrant; she had a mental illness, refused to treat it and her family engaged in a coverup on her behalf. Plenty of Americans have engaged in both of those behaviors. The tragedy is that those kids are dead and those parents hearts are shattered, don’t pretend that Yoselyn…

No, she is a psychopath. Full stop. Her race or nationality have nothing to do with that. To say that it does is to do a disservice to the millions and millions of law-abiding immigrants in this country trying hard to make a good life.

I have no doubt that she is mentally ill, but the vast majority of people who suffer from mental illness do not show such rage against kids or any other people who are not threatening them. She has shown absolutely no remorse, and the nature of the murders were brutal. She’s still playing the pity card without ever…

“Normally, someone who suffers a mental illness, commits a crime that they’re responsible for because it’s an intentional crime, you knew it was wrong, you knew the nature and consequences of your act, but that still still leaves some mitigation to the crime that someone may commit because they suffer mental illness. B…

Stop making everything about race. She’s an animal because she murdered children, not because she’s from Latin America. Ted Bundy was an animal too. Not everything that happens has a racial component or an angle that makes Trump look good or bad. Some things are just disgusting. This is one of them.

I think they had that challenge on Jeffrey/Allison/Laura’s season.

For sure.

It just ain’t the same without Michael Kors.

Thank you! People harm their own children and loved ones all the time; sometimes they even kill them. We call it child abuse and domestic violence, it’s not uncommon and people commit these atrocities with their full faculties intact.

Thank you. It happened last June and it’s weird - of course it’s been devastating, and I still cry in my car on my way home from work. But I’ve also connected to people more than I have in years and I have this newfound ability to stop procrastinating and live life. And I’m doing charity work which is unbelievably…

“Isn’t anyone who’d murder the innocents she’d been looking after and loving for over two years insane by any measure?”

It strikes me that perhaps Ortega didn’t cry when the children were described because it was never about the kids. And as Ortega says, she loved them, that can be true. But it can be also true that Ortega was in a world of her own misery—further shown by the fact whenever she did display emotion during the trial, it…