Helter Skelter is no In Cold Blood. I have read Capote’s interview with Bobby Beausoleil and man, I wish he had at least written about the trial, even though I don’t think it could ever approach the absolute ordinary-to-nightmare quality of Cold Blood. Although I am not a fan of Bugliosi’s later works he did an…

When I read that Cosby “gave women drugs and had sex with them,: I hear the media doing that famous dance called “It’s Shit But Let’s Call It Poo”. He gave them the drugs (they took the drugs freely) and he had sex with them (which smells perilously like implied consent. Or just poor judgment on the part of those drug…

His gift for mimicry is amazing. Why, you put him an orange uniform and a wristband, and you’d swear he was just a grungy old geriatric sex offender shuffling across the exercise yard.

Considering some of the discussions I’ve seen on here and God help us, Gawker, this has been pretty thoughtful. I know that you are speaking from a place of knowledge. It happens, though, that people use threat of suicide/near suicide as a weapon; sometimes it’s just a threat, sometimes it goes to completion -…

Because I know how many people in deep agony of soul or body hold on for the sake of others, I think your anger is really about compassion. Maybe he couldn’t hang on but it your compassion for others that makes you see this as selfish. There probably is no optimal time but you try to make sure your family is taken…

Both you and the two commenters above you make excellent points. There is always the knowledge you are going to hurt someone, but it does feel like “it’s better for everyone” when you are in hell with depression or illness. And you are right, your mind is clouded. When life ceases to be precious, I believe, very…

I absolutely stand for people who end their lives in pain or depression. I GET THIS better than I wish. However- people who are drunk or cracked out make this very gesture out of anger and the general assholia that often comes with both states. (wait to pile on, I took a course in this, it was expensive and I want to…

As a human being. I apologize to all of you. I am a Southerner. I am stricken by horror and contrition at the Charleston Church massacre. Innocent souls, black souls, and every one of them a Christian so representative of their faith that their kindness to a white boy who sat with them knowing he was kill them nearly…

God knows I hate to sound any crazier than I usually do but that scarf is just asking someone to lean out of a speeding car and grab both ends.

I absolutely agree that cats should be neutered and live indoors - but most of mine are ferals. My insiders, who I hoped to keep inside, will do anything to get out, including hide behind the door and go helling out the door as I come in. I reinforced screens with hardware cloth and they pushed them out; made them a…

Having been ghosted by a friend of 20 years who was like a brother and owed me money, I have no time or compassion for someone who ghosts on a friend or a lover. I could care less if we dated twice and you vanish but - 2o years? A text takes less than a minute. It's a trifling human that will do that and a worthless…

Oh, Albert. And I loved you so. I have alienated the elderly women in my family by peering into their casserole dishes and saying, “This is not how Albert would do it.” I have not been this shattered since I found my ex husband swanning around the house in my underwear.

I love minimalism. I also love Dwayne Johnson. I am unlikely to have either in my lifetime. I love the decluttering articles and I make a lot of runs to Goodwill. But in defense of saving things which may be useful:

I have friends in the RCMP and we talk shop on the Skyephone. And I never fail to tell them I love them and the way Canadians manage to do civilization and kindness in a way we fail at here in the States. If I knew I wouldn’t freeze first step off the plane and they could understand my accent, I would be there in a…

Oh Jesus on an ice cream truck, please don’t start. The indoor cat people will come over and tear you to shreds. “RILLY? YOU LET YOUR GORILLA OUT ON HIS OWN? DON’T YOU KNOW THE DAMAGE AN APE CAN CAUSE? SIMIAN ABUSER!”

Have sex with it? Darlin’, I’ve married and divorced him twice.

Saves time to have your next victim planned and plotted.

Neither is it difficult to examine your own dialogue and ask yourself if it is appropriate to apply the term “horrible racist fuck” to an entire population made up of many diverse cultures. You ask for tolerance, but your words are spiteful. And so we water the gardens of hate, you with your ugly words and me with my…

Thank you. The use of “mentally ill” as a catch phrase for any behavior we do not understand is seldom called out for its ugliness. I see it used here to label everything from serial murder to a fondness for mayonnaise. Millions of people shoulder the painful burden of disorders that fall under that category and…

I don't know what I have done to deserve not only being continually gray but also to be deprived by Kinja of an edit button....