What little I know is that her dad balked first, which is why they were slow with the initial move back to California (they had lived there before moving to Texas). Then there was that whole series of events which pointed to Amanda experiencing psychotic breaks in public. Her parents went from trying to sell their…

I know a member of her extended family. (Not that you need to trust me or anything; just clarifying that my comment wasn't an Internet Diagnosis sponsored by random tabloid speculation.) I don't know what other factors may be involved but, yeah, weed is the least of her troubles. I've always liked her. I wish her…

It's not just serious emotional problems: Bynes has full-blown schizophrenia and her parents do not accept that diagnosis as possible. I know there's only so much parents can do for an adult child, but dropping the denial would be a start.

A lesson for any of us who have the luxury of forgetting to pull back the scrim of white privilege and, as a result, missing chances to challenge and change our assumptions.

I noted the other day that, as much as I like the actress who played Saibra on DW, I would have loved for Grace Jones to have been hired to play that Companion rather than just nicking one of her iconic looks for the role. Someone replied that the only thing better than Grace Jones as a Companion would be Grace Jones…

I'm child-free by very happy choice — I still feel a very genuine thrill of delight when I think about my successful preemptive tubal ligation — but I'm always happy to hear about and read updates on my friends' kids. Brag, send pics, tell stories, complain without worry of judgement, or ask if we can talk about…

This. This is exactly the amount and type of drama I want in my news. This is the maximum emotional intensity I can stand. More like this, please.

The ones saying that are probably the exact people who declared they've seen plenty of women who go limp and fake being out to force a guy to drag them out of wherever (no shit, I saw this declared more than once) and that there wasn't any proof that he had actually knocked her out so they were just going to wait and…

My last attempt at an actual dating relationship ended in 1995 when I was twenty-two. General reason I'm on my own? I want to be. I'm not opposed to being in a relationship — sometimes I've been interested and the other hasn't; sometimes that's been the other way around — but I don't feel a lacking in myself for not…

Plus, the English language needs a second-person plural. 'Y'all' does the trick beautifully.

Natural selection has steered us toward having this ability. It's a way of we had of communicating 'hi, see, I'm not a threat, I'm not a danger, please don't kill me, I'd like to survive long enough to pass along my genetic material, thanks.' That's also why it's connected to evolution and expression of empathy, and…

I'm definitely seeing why he and Gwyneth get along as well as they do.

I don't know if this has already been covered here, but the tool behind The Fappening did an AMA to express how unhappy he is that his privacy isn't being respected. I feel like this needs a FB-style [NOT SATIRE] tag. http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/8/61210…

This is more or less the same story, but with a bonus vid of…

Who knew that all that the destruction of all that is good, true, and holy in the States would be so sweet and huggable (and probably smell really nice in a comforting sort of way) to behold?

And, truly, I am so glad to see this pic and this post. After the stories about the latest shithead cop and so many horrible…

I am so glad I scrolled through these comments before I clicked through to read the original article. Thank you for reminding me not to look at the comments over there.

You still deserve a star for that ice cream cone Texas cops hand out. That's why there are so many DQs in that state, after all.

The other day, I saw a comment written by a woman who was miserable about freezing when an asshole groped her and ruined her night at a concert. It's for her sake and for the sake of anyone else who has reacted or will react with silence or stillness in that kind of situation: ignoring them or otherwise not…

Didn't have a chance to pop by this morning, so I'll have a belated lunchtime tequila shot in solidarity with you.

Gonna get unavoidably alliterative here: if my response had been silence, snark, screams; freezing, fighting, fleeing, his choice to escalate his aggression is still HIS CHOICE. (I'm not directing this…

The only reason I do not explode into ASSCAPS more often is the hope that each of those comments is nudging me toward the day I can spontaneously Force-choke assholes through Internet. Mark my words: that day will come, and soon if the pounding in my temples is any indication.

What makes me angry with myself is that I have had to make myself regard that assault as an assault. It's such small beer compared to other shit I've dealt with — being followed home, being harassed, being beaten and raped — that my default response is to file that particular incident under 'meh, just one of those…