It was DeJesus who was friends with the kidnapper’s daughter, but otherwise you are totally correct. Michelle Knight is a great example of the untold number of invisible missing women—women who are never even looked for. When she disappeared, she missed a custody hearing for her son, and the authorities assumed she…

Idc about the big dick, I’d let Ocean hit it any damned day. That man is walking sex.

And poor Michelle Knight, no one even knew about her. She was friends with that creeps daughter IIRC. That poor girl already had a lot of problems before she was kidnapped.

Very true. So many people were quick to dismiss his accusers and the girl from the rape tape as fast girls who went after Kelly. Even now people will say those girls wanted to be with him and should have known what they were getting themselves into. Can you imagine someone saying that about a 13 year old white girl? I…

In an attempt to one-up his detractors while creating a narrative through-line for a career spent telling dick jokes, CK asserted “The whole point of comedy is to say things that you shouldn’t say. That’s the entire point.”

I’m so in love with this image I’m going to tattoo it on my person.

There are so many talented people out there who deserve to have their voice amplified before these douchebags get another chance!! I’m really tired of this idea that if I’m not consuming their media I have no other options. I told a friend once when he was shocked by some famous movie I hadn’t seen “It’s not like every…

I’m not defending the father because I don’t know enough about the situation to say if he was negligent, but I did read that he is devastated by what his son did. Apparently he tried to sit on the prosecutor’s side of the courtroom during the arraignment until the bailiff forced him to move, and he gave Jayme’s family…

I’m from CLE, too, and I remember either the Berry or DeJesus family (maybe both) insisting that their disappearances were linked. The police dismissed it outright; it couldn’t be the work of one man, they said. Nope. Not at all. But I remember reading the stories of both girls’ disappearances and thinking how could…

It’s the men, of course, and often enough the white men, who are more likely to be crowned Kings of Woke, and granted TV shows and movies and well-paid comedy specials. There’s good money to be made in pretending to be a decent person, if you know how to leverage it. But how are we supposed to react, and to think, if…

Pretty soon it will just be a big fan base of proud boys.

I thought this very same thing. If a comedian’s whole persona is based upon being an asshole and trying to shock it always strikes me as showing a severe lack of creativity. Anyone can be an asshole who doesn’t give a shit about anything. It’s easy. It’s aiming at the lowest hanging fruit on the tree all the time.…

FWIW almost every comedy club is that hard up.

LOL. I passed by that theatre last night. It was a sad looking line trying to get in, directly across from a bunch of protesters with big signs glaring judgmentally at them. It was also raining like hell so likely that depressed crowd numbers and kept me from taking a photo. (Also fuck that comedy club, I think…

That’s the thing about all these conversations about whether or not we should accept back these fuckers after some nebulous period of “time out” from public life - it presupposes that there’s no one else with sufficiently good (or better!) talent that we could direct our attention to. It all focuses on the tragic loss…

CK asserted “The whole point of comedy is to say things that you shouldn’t say. That’s the entire point.”

How pedantic. Both the Wetterling and Closs abductions dominated the news cycle on a near daily basis when they happened in the Minneapolis/St. Paul (where I live) news market as that is the nearest major metropolitan area to both abductions. 

Seriously, give her the money. She's earned it and will need it.

I’m from NE Ohio so I always follow these cases of missing girls because I remember when Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found. It was such a shock. I followed the news when Amanda and Gina were reported missing. I especially remember Gina’s mom was constantly pushing the media to keep her…

Barron is a little over an hour from me and Jayme’s abduction (so close to where Jacob Wetterling was abducted) has been on our collective minds since it happened. I didn’t dare hope she would make it home alive and I’m so glad she was able to get herself out. Her abductor is a truly scary individual and I hope he…