It really is a beautiful piece of prose, isn't it?

The officer in question was female.

As with the murder of the couple going to buy a car, this is one of those things that tests the strength of my belief that the death penalty is wrong.

Or just a skewed perception of her body.

What about pregnant women? Should they be kept out of the public arena for the duration? We can go back to calling it "confinement" — back in the days when Rubella was still rampant and caused birth defects and mental retardation of a severity that we have not seen in 50 years (or even before that, since babies born…

You could, but why would you want to? Bay scallops are really flavorful on their own, additions of slaw and other sauces would muddle the flavor.

Bay scallops are the B-O-M-B. So sweet and delicious, I sear them in butter like sea scallops and pop them in my mouth like pistachios. Delicious.

What kind of idiot doesn't know you have to cook eggplant? Has she never eaten eggplant parm? Did she not notice that there was something really different about her sliced raw eggplant and the eggplant one normally finds in an eggplant parm? Jesus.

Jayze, that's mad craic down in Caaaaaark there.

As long as their insane paranoia and idiocy only killed one of their kids and didn't take anyone else's child with it, I'm ok.

Really? Maybe they'd be better off in a household with people who don't think that having loaded, unsecured guns at a height that children can reach them is a good idea.

No, just her own potential future children. That seems like a fair trade to me.

Well, she should live with this for the rest of her life. She caused it. What other outcome would you want? That she somehow magically have all memory of this washed away, or have her feel no guilt or shame or remorse? That's the price of being a complete piece of shit — you have to live with yourself.

Because black people might have tried to get in, duh.

Do we really want to apply the word "tragic" to this situation? Several years ago a family got lost in a snowstom, and the husband tried to hike out to get help, and he froze to death, and it turned out they were only a couple miles from where they needed to be. That was tragic.

i.e. that combat vet husband described in detail some the hand-to-hand techniques he learned on deployment, and also casually mentioned that he knows a lot of guys with unresolved anger issues who also happen to be off the leash, so I decided to stop calling his wife a slut.

RPF is definitely odd, although I mentioned elsewhere that I used to do it with my girlfriends talking about Duran Duran (although not 'shipping them together, mostly stories about their various girlfriends and the dramas of touring life) and my aunt said she and *her* girlfriends did it with the Beatles, in the 60s. …

I don't think what you're talking about is an artifact of slashfic though, its a weird manifestation of obsessive fandom of *any* stripe. Look at what is happening to FKA Twigs, Robert Pattinson's new girlfriend. She's under attack from absolute headcases who have completely lost their shit that he's no longer with…

All fictional characters are "dolls" upon which we can project our fantasies. That is the foundation of fanfic — bending the canonical story to suit our narrative desires. Don't like it? Don't read it.

I don't know who the writers are on daytime soaps, but I do know that the creator of How To Get Away with Murder — which has the most explicit portrayal of a gay man on popular TV right now — is a gay man himself. Take it up with him, my friend. My point there was that someone, somewhere, has figured out that…