Did she use her car as a weapon at any point? When somebody says somebody was trying to run them off the road, you picture some contact (or at least near contact), but this just says she was tailing them. I’m assuming she was tailgating them in a persistent and aggressive way. That’s surely potentially very dangerous…

Ok. So this headline is misleading.

This is New York’s (Catholic) Cardinal Dolan. The Cardinals wear different hats and outfits depending on the occasion.

Where does this madness end? It’s frankly ridiculous to insert asparagus into the story of a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father and can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is…

It’s generally best to avoid all small rural British villages on any High Day or holiday, because places that are over 1500 years old inevitably have weird shit going down.

Hi! Long time reader, commenting for the first time. I guess I should first put up a disclaimer, that I despise Trump and everything that he stands for, and also that Melania is a fool.

I’m blowing through an 1/8 every third day now. How the fuck.

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

yeah that’s never where you insert a “but” or “however.” Other examples where this is NEVER CORRECT, and yet when the GOP gets started...I swear I’ve heard all of these:

Let me get this straight. You publish a disgustingly invasive photo of another human being. You have no recollection of publishing said photo, because that’s all in a day’s work. You don’t really prepare for this interview by doing your Googling beforehand, on the off-chance that you may have invaded your…

He talks about 2012 like it was the way-back days of yore. As if we had all just crawled out of the cave and women just won the right to vote. IT WAS 2012! Five years ago. He’s telling us he didn’t have any qualms about posting an exploitative picture in 2012 but suddenly 24 months later in 2014 he’s achieved moral…

It’s similar to rape apologists. Like, “Sorry, I did this terrible, dehumanizing thing that affected you in ways I can’t even imagine, I’m sure you’ve thought about it a lot since I did it, but I’m just thinking about it for the first time right now, and realizing it was a bad thing to do. I’m so proud of how far I’ve…

I can’t fucking stand that corpulent, conspiracy peddling, bulldog jowled, balding, paranoid, small dicked, unstable, proudly stupid, retrograde, racist, sexist, man tit having, xenophobic, homophobic, islamophobic, truthphobic, sociopathic, snake oil selling, blood sucking, gun stroking, jiggling bullshit salesman…

The thing I kept thinking about is how, if he reads or watches something then attempts to paraphrase, he says he didn’t “say it” because it didn’t originate with him. That’s the most ignorant and fatuous excuse I’ve ever seen, and it’s from the president. My mind rebels.

So paranoid lunatics with fascist leanings aren’t good leaders or managers and have a hard time hiring competent staff? Who knew?

I know what you mean. It’s hard because clearly what certain organizations and institutions have done in the face of abuse and to cover it up is absolutely abhorrent, we rightly need to focus on how that was allowed to happen and how we ensure it doesn’t happen again. But at the same time, it does no good to construct…

The sad reality is that sex abuse is common anywhere and everywhere. It only seems like it is more prevalent within certain institutions (Catholic Church, at boarding schools, sports orgs, etc.) because they have both more access to children and more of an ability to either cover it up on a large scale or do nothing…

Off topic, but how amazing is this green dress?

There is a significant component of emotional abuse that is part of the CO$, just as in cults...and in abusive relationships. Your question touches on an important causal factor that is also related to the common “why do abuse victims stay?” (besides financial reasons or fear).

I was raised in the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Most of my family disowned me when I left, to the point that they consider me literally dead (because I am dead to God). My doctor was a JW, so I had to get a new one. All of my friends were gone overnight. I struggled to get a GED because I’d been “homeschooled” (except…