These events have carefully timed commercial breaks, where companies have paid them a significant amount of money for their advertising time.

A person’s speech goes over the time, and that has a knock-on effect for everything down the line. So, if they’ve paid performers for a musical number, or a skit, and those get…

That only works if the orchestra and/or cutting the mics has any effect on the person. When Elaine Stritch finally won a Tony for her one-woman show after about 112 years on Broadway, IIRC she started her speech by telling the conductor to not even bother. She goes through her allotted time, and the orchestra starts.…

Might be that no one knows who he is? 

Co-sign on Kourtney. I don’t want to be okay with it, but they seem legit. But mostly, I want to see D.W. in the Scottish play. 

How exactly am I “defending murder” by saying that at the time of her disappearance, no one knew anything aside from she was missing?

His actions after the fact could be explained by “trauma” or disassociation.

Because no crime had actually been committed that they knew of. And we still don’t know if one has been committed. Until the autopsy results come in to determine cause of death, it’s all speculation.

do we know she was murdered tho?  i didn’t see that listed anywhere as an actual cause of death.  not saying it isn’t possible or even unlikely (we are all too familiar on how these stories end), but i’m interested in hearing the coroner’s report on the actual cause of death.

“approachable and aesthetically pleasing and socially aware and gender-neutral” tequila brand

“not even a confirmed death”

“Like if he didn’t do anything, this is just next level scum behaviour unless there was something really wild as in her somehow forcing her to a bloodpact to never reveal where she left to.”

Someone on Facebook said they were getting a Debbie from Addam’s Family Values vibe...I’m here for that. If you’re going to attend a fundraising costume ball, that’s the perfect vibe!

Free press, for both parties — Oscar de la Renta’s traditional customer base is, uh, less vibrant than in days past. Eilish is 20, and it’s a solid start to a professional working relationship.

I have worked in the animal welfare field for a long time and I know quite a few trainers. Every single one of them thinks his methods are utter garbage and abusive. I can’t believe people actually still listen to him.

The “natural” parenting and “attachment” parenting industries have romanticized parenting in developing countries in a very, very privileged and white way. It is very gross to see my friends who are otherwise very conscious to racism and hating colonialism feel for the same neocolonialist bullshit. They don’t seem to…

Frat boys who scream at TV cameras at football games are generally shit human beings, but sometimes they are funny, shit human beings who make fun of rich idiots.

When I worked for an international charity, I spent some time in developing countries. Many times, I met unvaccinated kids with no shoes who had to bathe in the same river that the village used as a bathroom and trash disposal. Their parents were asking my employer to help get their kids vaccinated and help build a…

I’m trying to imagine the absolute firestorm of thinkpieces we’d be subjected to if, say, Taylor Swift or Katy Perry made a video in which the fat girls are huge losers and the protagonists threaten the clerks in a store.  Not to mention this concept has been done to death and the song is lame-o.

Just asking some questions: At what point does cultivating a style amount to repeating oneself?

Thanks be unto the Lord that someone had the courage to show that fat women are desperate losers compared to the hot, skinny women. What a FRESH PERSPECTIVE.