If this hurts him at all, which it won’t, it would be by reminding people he was old enough to publish essays about rape fantasies before Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio were potty-trained.

If the worst experience of your life is co-hosting a show where people sing for you, clearly you have lead a very blessed life indeed.

I’m always sad when people with young kids split up, you know? I know it’s better for them in the long run than having miserable but married parents, but it still isn’t easy.

Not a bad point. Honestly I was just trying to avoid getting jumped on for saying he was a good dad when his political/religious views are so abhorrent. I think the two can coexist — as you noted, a whole lot of politicians go soft and squishy when confronted with a gay kid — but it’s still not worth arguing when it’s…

I’m glad he’s stopped the crazy pills for once in his life. Though I’m not surprised by his reaction — I read most of his book about his daughter Bella, and, while I still find him politically repugnant, I came away from it with a strong sense that he was a good husband and father. (At least, to his particular…

Was anybody else reminded of the plot of The Ides of March when they read this? Or am I the only one who saw that movie?

I’m not sure. In general, I think this is something where trans people and their physicians should get the say on what the surgery is called. (And I understand reducing the process of transitioning to genital operations is an oversimplification and somewhat offensive to start with.) But since that didn’t stop me from…

But doesn’t “reconstruction” normally mean rebuilding something that was there before? I understand trans people feel they were assigned the wrong gender at birth, but reconstruction just seems a confusing term to use because it goes against the word’s ordinary meaning.

If we stopped believing “woman wears clothes, leaves house” is inherently newsworthy, the whole celebrity culture tabloid industry would go out of business.

I still don’t understand the argument that not all role-play/puppy play is sexual. If the RP is part of your “thing” as a couple, how is it not sexual in the broader sense even if any single particular instance is not intended to directly lead to orgasm? For example, if I’m going out to dinner with my husband and I…

Did you really write a novel in response to a four-year-old comment I don't even remember? Get a new hobby.

I was willing to give Josh some benefit of the doubt. 14 is really young, his family environment was obviously screwed up, sometimes kids make horrible mistakes. At that point, I thought the main concern was that he and his victims hadn’t gotten proper counseling.

Yeah, I can’t hate on people who are so obviously just stupid happy. Also I like their choice of wedding song.

See, this is where not giving a crap about Rihanna in general helped me. Didn’t know the voice was hers until I read the credits, didn’t recognize the songs as anything but annoyingish pop songs.

To be fair, you also have socialized medicine and decent unemployment/state benefits, where Americans sometimes need to sue to pay hospital bills and cover basic living expenses if they’re injured and can’t work. It’s easy to rag on lawsuit culture, and of course there are frivolous lawsuits, but the problem’s more…

This sounds like an amazing program. My one question is, I’ve heard it’s better to give money to food pantries or at least check their wish lists so they get what they need and don’t end up with, like, 500 cans of artichoke hearts and no cereal or tuna. At least some of this food is being discarded because French…

I bet she’s already working on her outline.

Oh god my heart just broke into tiny pieces. That poor woman. What did you do? And I’m guessing she was a single mom?

Hmm. She would have been a year ahead of me in school, so she would have been in third grade in ‘85-’86, so ... yeah, the timeline isn’t quite right unless doit2julia is fudging a bit.

I know you can’t say but in my head this is Sarah Michelle Gellar.