That movie drove me crazy for a thousand reasons, but one is that they had a pretty great answer to that question. You have young, inexperienced, reckless Superman causing immense collateral damage. Batman’s motivation is fully explained by that - this guy is more dangerous than he is helpful. You don’t need any Mad…

I saw it. I didn’t think it was terrible. Listen... Marvel movies are funny. DC movies are dark. I heard people bitch that it wasn’t a laugh riot. But you know what did happen? People Cheering for Wonder Woman’s entrance in the theater. I didn’t mind the movie. I thought Ben was great in it. I think that the plot was…

I posted this in another thread about BvS but here are my thoughts on it (hint, didn’t find it nearly as bad as the critics have been saying):

Common tactic that goes along with abuse... involves psychological manipulation. It’s an abuser befriending a victim and using emotional connections to slowly break down barriers so that the victim then trusts the abuser and is easier to control. Among many other things, grooming indicates that the abuser was putting…

Bought ticket, still going. I’ve been waiting too long for this goddamned movie.

This is my problem with the cases like this , the foster/adoptive family wants to go on and on about how traumatizing it for the kids because it’s been x number of years but when you track things back to when they began all the trauma could have been avoided if they did the right thing to begin with. Even now this…

It took five years because the foster family kept disobeying court orders and fighting to keep the girl away from her family.

I worked in my state’s emergency child removal system as an appointed attorney. Even in a stupid red state, all of the people involved in the system - attorneys, judges, guardians, social services...etc. - legitimately tried their best to help the kids.

No, it is not ridiculous, because removing children from Native homes has been a constant method of reducing the Native population and destroying traditional Native lifeways. The girl isn’t 1/64 Choctaw. Her father is a Choctaw citizen. He is Choctaw. She is eligible for Choctaw citizenship. ICWA was put in place for…

She is eligible for citizenship in the Choctaw tribe. That means she is covered by ICWA. And ICWA isn’t a “trump card,” it’s the law for a lot of really good reasons.

Ding ding motherfucking ding. This girl could have had a safe, happy, short experience in the foster system and be that much further toward feeling secure with her relatives if they hadn’t fought her reunification every step of the way. Part of being a parent - foster or otherwise - is putting your kids’ needs ahead…

My brother in law works for the Guardian Ad Litem program and he pulls his hair out because on any given case, both the agencies and family present different troubles.

I feel like their decision to release her name is telling.

I like how the GOP bragged about its “deep bench”, yet this election cycle is mainly noteworthy for outright racism and childish insults.

Or maybe it was cruel of the foster parents to keep her for all these years fighting a custody battle they could never win because under the law they have never had any legal leg to stand on.

This may or may not help, but my aunt was given 3-6 months in a similar situation, and she made it another three years beyond that prediction. Oncologists love to be wrong in these situations.

This makes me legitimately sad. Sager’s one of the most joyous personalities in sports, and that’s just not the crazy suits talking. He and Popovich spun gold on those sideline interviews on a weekly basis for years. He is a rare figure in sports media who is just about universally beloved, which tells you what kind…

That may be from the court’s perspective. But they are paid for the child to the custodial parent. So what he wasn’t paying, the mothers were covering out of pocket. If he was paying on time they would be the child’s payment — when he’s this far behind, he’s paying back the mothers.

You’re a professional writer and you think the phrase is, “on the lamb?”

Statistics show that your cited statistic doesn’t comport with reality.