I’m sure there were real problems there and it wasn’t a whim. But as that quote acknowledges, adoption in the best of circumstances can be very difficult for all involved. To me, it represents a commitment to a child that should only be broken in the most extreme and difficult circumstances (eg, if the adoptive…

Yep. I’m generally sympathetic to her, especially after reading that awful Maureen Dowd piece, but treating human children like exotic puppies who can be passed along if they don’t fit into your lifestyle .... eesh.

Yep. And, fuck Marco Rubio, but I don’t think he was saying “I’ll take care of you myself” as in “I’m gonna beat you up.” His tone of voice was a lot more dismissive and less heated than that. It was more like “you won’t get arrested, but I’m going to get security to throw you out of here.”

Also I think she wants a comma after Fugees, since the sentence makes the most sense if she’s saying the reporting and working relationships within the band were clear. As written it says the musicians outside the Fugees had the clearer structure.

Quincy Jones seems like a bad comparison to me, though. As I understand it, he produced dozens if not hundreds of classic records over more than half a century. Lauryn Hill made one excellent album, a handful of very good songs, and then more or less vanished for the next 20 years.

See, I’d bet that the people who choose the name Nixon when it isn’t a family name are doing it specifically to show how super-Republican they are. But I may be confusing malice with ignorance.

It’s stunningly stupid. One in three American women has an abortion. Just going by the numbers, I’d bet a LOT of female deans and professors had an abortion somewhere along the way — especially since most of them would have been starting careers at a time when having a baby was an even worse drag on a career than it…

I mean, he’s the only president to ever resign, and it happened within the lifetimes of many people still having babies today. (Albeit at the older end of the spectrum.) It’s not quite as bad as naming your kid Manson or Dahmer, but in terms of awful references it is up there.

I read the Longreads story, and came away unconvinced there’s much of anything there. If Nixon hit his wife, it wouldn’t be a surprise given what we know for sure about him. But the fact almost all of the rumors seem to have started with political rivals and people who disliked him is enough to create at least a…

But James Gunn was tweeting obvious jokes. Rotten, offensive jokes, but jokes. Broussard was sharing apparently sincere political beliefs that are, unfortunately, shared by many others in America.

People are insane. If it were my husband, I would have said “sure, go, have fun” and enjoyed eating a pint of ice cream for dinner and having the bed to myself. Premature labor isn’t that common, and even if it happened, people have had babies without their husbands at their side every second a whole bunch of times…

Oh, come on. School teachers work with kids in large groups as part of their jobs, mostly in public. That’s not remotely close to the same thing as having kids be your best friends and sleep over at your house because you appreciate their innocence or they don’t call you on your crap the way adults do or whatever.

Not to mention the drug addiction that orphaned three children, leaving them to be raised by the same family that turned him into a drug addict pedophile in the first place.

You know what? I don’t like Michael Jackson either, so I’m with Sam Smith on that one.

My dad’s a decent guy most of the time. He’s smart and funny and loves his family. I actually talk to him more than I talk to my mom right now because they don’t have a landline and my mom tends to forget her cell phone exists.

Exactly. I’m pretty reality-TV oblivious in general. But somehow the Kardashians have penetrated my bubble, and it’s not like I ever sat down and went  “Who’s Kylie Jenner dating? I must know this crucial information.” They’re just everywhere. 

Yes, because the Kardashians invented being vapid on TV. Before 2007 it was all Masterpiece Theater and The Wire and then those women came along and ruined it.

And yet they’ve been famous for ten years.

The headline doesn’t seem to match the story? “Capitulates” suggests they fired her, when they actually released a statement of support. Total clickbait.

This is what I keep saying! If peanut butter is okay, why not soy milk? I don’t see the difference, logically speaking.