My guess is that UNICEF (or something else, but probably UNICEF) pressured him to do this and he’ll get to skim something off the top of some $ they bring into the country.

Wow, this is interesting. However, top down bans mean almost nothing for stopping the practice of female genital cutting and Jammeh is a sociopathic dictator who is not in any danger of losing any “election.” His official title is “His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Doctor” and he can cure AIDS on Thursdays and…

This is total bullshit. Millihelen was the first site I checked everyday and my favorite place on the internet. But, I’ve followed you since TAL and I’ll follow you wherever you go next.

I smoke weed in the bath. Sometimes while eating.

He was also able to do it with an undergraduate TA (who Stubblefied recruited), but not with his mom or brother.

Omg how am I the only person who has said this?

And she seems so nice and her clothes are so beautiful and her voice and accent sound magical.

Rihanna.

Those kinds of apology letters are usually coerced by the police in order to be presented at trial as confessions, they are not just spontaneous.

Police often coerce apology letters as a way to get confessions, these are not just spontaneous. And he did plead, just not immediately.

In order to plead guilty, you usually have to admit guilt. People will write out statements detailing crimes they never committed (often getting many of the facts wrong—because they didn’t actually commit the crime) and those are the admissions of guilt that prosecutors are talking about in the press. Unless this guy…

I just want to THROW THIS OUT THERE, not saying it’s happening in this case, but...I do post-conviction legal work and many many many many many many people plead guilty to child sexual abuse when they are actually innocent. Because of the 90s paranoia about child sexual abuse, it is disturbingly easy to convict…

I just texted that fur hat to my boyfriend and told him to buy it for me so I can be twins with my cat. And I meant it.

I think my SO would be into that.

Tell me more about this face shield of youth!

I’m constantly finding things that are completely life changing and then I stop using them for whatever reason and my life remains the same.

I was thinking more about rain.

Accutane changed my life. For the six months I was on it I was a scaly troll who couldn’t drink without blacking out, but then I emerged as a person whose brain suddenly had space in it for things other than stressing about my skin.

I live in Seattle so I can’t have that coat made of a peacock, but omg.

I made cheese and crackers for lunch.