I enjoy most of Taylor's music, but her vocal abilities aren't so good. That's my only real issue with her as a singer.

My thoughts, horribly collected:

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE SVU EPISODE.

"People are horrible on both sides of the political spectrum, unfortunately. (I'm a proud liberal lefty myself, but that doesn't mean I think in Us or Them. It doesn't help anyone.)"

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Mhmm!

Word.

Gaaahhh I want it nowww.

Equating same-sex marriage with incest seriously infuriates me. Most reported cases of incest are rape (older family member taking advantage of a child), so it is definitely not at all the same thing as consenting adults deciding to get married. WHY DO PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT?!

What bothers me most about the "same-sex marriage is on the same level as incest" argument is that the people who use that argument don't seem to understand that there are more issues with incest than simply being "taboo."

I guess I don't equate not being particularly nice to someone all the time, with a group of kids conspiring to humiliate one of their classmates in front of the entire school.

Seriously. Pure gold.

Yeah, but then SHE dies too, after that nasty altercation with her mother.

People at my high school (including myself at times, unfortunately) could be really mean, but that is just a whole other thing. What the hell, sophomore class of Ogemaw Heights High!

Lindy, it's like you can read my soul. Down into the dark depths of my SVU-and-morbid-Wikipedia-reading-obsessed soul.

Word.

Ah, yes, "Chickification." That's some very scientific thinking and methodology you got going on, Rush.

Very true, she could have altered her identity. But future employers will want to see her resume, and probably ask for references, right? It would still be difficult to avoid her past, I think.

Preach!

I was thinking along those lines too. I'm not really for tell-all books and milking famous scandal cows for all they're worth, but what else can she do? Sounds like she had a fairly promising future before that mess (I mean come on, she was interning in the White House! For the President!), and now she's the slut that…