Hey, if you even watch Mad Men you see Joan believing her fate was 100% dependent on marrying the right guy, or Trudy masterminding her husband’s career since it was the only one she thought she’d ever have. I’m in my 40s and never married; I own my home and have a well-paying job. And I have so many friends who are…

I stuff my straw hats with potpourri and hang them on the lightbulbs

“If you want to create a mid price point jewelry collection in which the pieces look like butts, do it. Butts are timeless.”

Step one: look like Jane Seymore

I feel like this should be republished under author, Blake Lively, with Jane Seymour as the ghost writer.

And wherever I go I take my toe shoes, carefully stuffed with potpourri

And now she sells jewelry that looks like butts.

I personally, especially as I get older, find the St. John chapters of Jane Eyre fascinating, and St. John himself the personification of “unaware that he’s unaware” privilege, a striking contrast to Big Daddy Rochester; his money, his demands, his prickly personality, his horror show of a marriage and how he dealt…

I’m sorry, but what? Neither Syed or Avery was lionized by anyone. There was very little about Teresa Halbach, true, but no one would participate. That is their right, but that means what the filmmakers have to work with is minimal. Serial was very respectful to Hae Min, and spoke with her friends and teachers and…

The state is being slaughtered in court and the family’s statement REEKS of being written by the State’s lawyers. They are desperately trying to appeal to the court of public opinion.

Well, the podcast creators did reach out to her family, but they declined to participate (which is absolutely their right). I think the podcast was respectful of the fact that ultimately, a girl is dead who should not be. I do think that there is a degree of callousness on the part of some of the listeners, but that…

What exactly is wrong with how her death was treated? Did anyone on the podcast state that she deserved to die, or somehow that it wasn’t a big deal? Did any fans state that she deserved to die? I think it’s pretty clear that the legal system failed Adnan, and that is also a tragedy. It doesn’t take away from the…

Of course it is a tragedy for her and her family. The podcast presented her as a bright, beautiful, well-loved girl whose death rocked a community.

If I were her parents/family/friends, I too would be quite determined to believe that the guilty party was locked away. It is unfortunate (understatement) that the evidence they believe in was so egregiously mishandled and manipulated.

WIAT interviewed the gun-owner Joel Watson, who’s alternately being reported as Reylander’s grandfather and great-grandfather:

I chose my pediatrician based on a ton of negative reviews. Why the negative reviews? Because the pediatrician will not see people who own guns. That sounded like a great policy to me! I also won’t let my kid spend unsupervised time at the homes of people who own guns, because of shit like this. So tragic, and so…

Right. Grandma prayed, grandpa left a loaded gun lying around - I voted for a pro-gun-control Congressman. I’ve never met this family, I don’t even live in the same state, but I did 100x more to try to save their child than they did.

one more child sacrifice to the gun god :(

This is going to sound cold, but I’m going to say it anyway: praying was never going to do anything meaningful for that child with that kind of injury. You know what would have saved this child? Having that firearm properly locked away when it wasn’t being used. We hear so often that a responsible gunowner could have…

“Her grandma was laying the towel on her head and laid down there and started praying, she was praying, I was praying, my wife was screaming and praying. Nobody knows how that feels until you experience it.”