This isn’t the least bit creepy to me. Maybe because I’m a mom? The second I read the headline I had the deepest, nauseating heartbreak for that woman. My kid is 5 and if he died... I legitimately think I might have a similar break with reality, lord knows I deal with disassociation and such as it is. I have no, no,…

My heart aches for every single person involved in this case-it is going to have an impact on every person who has touched/will touch this case. As for the mother-I can’t imagine her anguish.

My guess would be that she was in denial about the death of her child and went so deep into shock that she got stuck performing that monotonous motion for hours. (In the vein of “He can’t be dead. See? We’re at the playground. Playing like we always do. Everything’s fine.”)

Sadly it’s not even close for me. I once did a postpartum home visit to find that the infant had died several days before but the mother was still bathing and dressing the little body and frantic because “She just won’t eat.” I suspect this will turn out to be something similar. Grief can do some powerfully tragic…

Everything about this is incredibly sad.

This really brings some clarity to the moment when Jim Bob scolded one of the toddler girls for being immodest when she sat in a way that her diaper was exposed.

It does happen in families, and my brother went to jail for 5 years for incest and sex with a minor. They were kids but it was still illegal and terrible. That’s how its supposed to happen. I’ve forgiven my brother but others in my family haven’t and that’s okay. What’s not okay is pretending shit didn’t happen and…

Yep, and it can take awhile to even realize you’re fucked up from it. I remember thinking for years that the molestation that happened to me as a child hadn’t fazed me at all. It wasn’t until I was in my late twenties that I started making the connection to certain issues I had and what had happened to me. But these…

What I’m getting from his defenders: A guy who molests or rapes someone is just exploring sexually, made a mistake, should be forgiven. A girl or woman who is raped was asking for it, and a girl or woman who has CONSENSUAL sex with someone their own age is a whore who should be slut shamed and shunned.

I was going to mention this , then I realized that the article just assumed that its readers would only ever fly internally within the US .Which given how seriously fucking dumb bringing drugs on to an international flight could be , is probably for the best.

Dammit, don’t you hate it when you turn down Molestation Avenue when you really meant to hang a left on Not Being a Fucking Monster Lane? Goddamn MapQuest, I tell you what...

I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life.

Maybe I am an odd person but I love it when people respond to a bouquet toss like someone just threw a dead squirrel on the ground.

Honestly, that’s kind of exactly why I don’t watch GoT. Like, that shit goes on in real life, why the fuck would I tune in to watch with popcorn on Sunday nights?

A fuck ton of Chechens are adamantly against this whole travesty, and this sort of treatment of women and girls in general. The public criticism this piece alludes to? Comes from within Chechen culture as well as from without. Don’t let the worst parts of Chechnya define Chechen culture, not without learning about…

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA. Ok, there are myriad aspects of the “War on Drugs” that are bullshit, agreed (mandatory minimums comes readily to mind, scheduling marijuana as a class 1 drug, etc), but seriously?

Yeah, the consequences if caught are catastrophic, so it’s really a question of the probability of being caught. People probably vastly overestimate that probability, but I don’t know precisely what it is. Surely it’s less than the probability of being killed while driving to the airport, but you could say that about…

Literal definition of smuggling: to import, export, or convey goods surreptitiously or in violation of the law.

I like your tactic of chirping everyone who doesn’t immediately jizz all over your articles. You should get a job running the Iron Sheik’s Twitter.

Jia, you seem so precious whenever anyone criticises articles written on here? Writing for a left wing audience primarily when bullshit gets published it will get slammed. Also bragging about doing drugs is so uncool. It is generally done by people who rarely do them and need everyone to know.