That’ the problem with “natural” parenting in general. It doesn’t see the children as fully formed humans with needs and wants. They’re treated like end results of a recipe, put good in get good out.

I hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers with the heat of a thousand habaneros.

What I don’t understand, is that we love executing people who commit murder (and what Snyder and other politicians did will obviously kill people at some point) and yet, politicians and corporations who kill people get off, usually without even a fine, let alone jail time. For killing people! China does this right:…

It’s not like they’re wooden doors with knobs and frames just sitting there. The doorways were filled in and plastered and painted over. You can look at the photos and surface scans Reeves used yourself (http://www.highres.factum-arte.org/Tutankhamun/)—you’ll see that the doors are completely invisible in photos and…

Beautiful and all that, but I’m seriously tired of having celebrity kids pushed on to us for admiration et al. It’s all becoming very old world nobility rules, where you don’t have to work hard to even make it in the world, just have a famous parent. Enough already.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. In basically every movie, Leonardo Dicaprio always just comes across as the best actor in a high school theatre production. Which is to say, he’s not *bad.* He’s always just, like, Leonardo Dicaprio in a costume and talking in his “acting” voice.

Sure we could, if we wanted to. The money exists. We burn it up on corporate welfare, a humongous military budget, and tax breaks for billionaires, and that’s a choice we’ve made as a society.

That’s great and all, but we can’t even take care of our documented poor. Get on the grid and pay taxes, and you’re good. If you’re caught living here illegally, you should be fined but given a chance to naturalize. If you really can’t be bothered, then it probably isn’t a dire need for you to be here.

Died. I'm dead. This is a ghost commenting. #slayedbyBey

Judge Grants Injunction Stopping Release of more Sting Videos by Anti-Abortion Activists

Wow. We dudes are nothing if not persistent. Andy’s been dead thirty years and still managed to send a woman a dick pic.

he is ultimate geek

Is Rihanna’s talent worth the attention she gets? Even when her latest sells so poorly? Maybe some of her albums sold off the charts before but is her music GOOD? All I see of her is gossip and fashion and snarkiness.

This makes me sad that a website for grown women is following the rest of the media in fetishizing the teenage offspring of two formerly good-looking and famous people. That’s the entire sum of her ‘talent’ and no good can come of thrusting a fifteen year old into fame as we have seen time and time again. Sad all…

My cat needs me right now. I have more important things to think about.

To quote my grandfather, non-watcher of sports and crotchety Detroit native:

Rapists need secrecy. All 911 calls are recorded. Have your phone in hand and don’t hesitate to call 911 and say that you are being threatened by a police officer and name him. Of course this presupposes that your doing so won’t put your life in danger.

I completely understand that this must feel incredibly shitty for Gutierrez, and I actually agree with her that the way the organization handled it was weirdly incompetent, but am I the only person who feels like she could be, I dunno, more gracious and good-humored about the whole thing? I mean, no one ‘took your…

A misguided policy, to be sure.

I know I’m the minority, and will be told that I’m just envious and yadda yadda. But there’s a point where someone’s extreme conventional attractiveness sort of voids their appearance of being distinctly human. I can’t help but love imperfections (no, not sexy scarring or any bullshit like that) but real physical…