“I missed the point.”

“I know it’s popular to hate on Gwyneth but THAT is how you do divorce with kids”

“I’m like, “If you want to fuck with me, bring your A-game. At least have all your information.””

City income tax, aimed at the people who can spend $5,000 a month on an apartment and buy $50 hamburgers.

Honestly...considering how evangelical Iowa Republican voters tend to be, coming in a strong second is actually pretty impressive.

This makes no sense legally on a lot of levels. Even if PETA succeeded in establishing the monkey’s right to ownership of the photos, what grounds do they think they have for getting control of the proceeds? The monkey can’t consent to a contract with PETA, and I doubt any court would give PETA guardianship of the…

“However, as crime victims, the women he harmed are entitled to have the security and peace of mind of knowing, for the rest of their lives, exactly where he is.”

Depending on your state there may be (legal) ways to transfer assets away then rely on medicaid to get long term care.

Is she asking for your help? If not then it’s not fair to blame her for not living the way you think she should; she’s an adult. At her age she is eligible for medicare, and she has a house she can sell if she has to. She might just figure she can downsize if necessary.

“I have worked closely with people who would not rank high on any objectively-accepted standard of intelligence (including myself after a car smashed my frontal lobes)“

This article just seems to be equivalent to the articles marketed to MRA/PUA types telling them that the reason women reject them is because they’re shallow gold-diggers, just dressed up in a cursory literary rationale.

Expected by whom?

“a reality series in which mothers/daughter pairs will attempt to resolve years of family trauma”

I was confused by this article before it was cool.

“There is a clear difference between Pitchfork (where I wrote frequently, including a column, during the early-to-late 2000s)“

Part of their data comes from a study by USC-Annenberg’s Media, Diversity and Social Change group, which is definitely not a whitewashing organization. It’s an interesting report (http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/…) that shouldn’t be dismissed simply because the Economist (which is itself fairly socially…

Wait, you seriously think that “it has math” is a valid criticism of a study?

I feel bad for DCF; they are always second-guessed by everyone. “Why did you take the kids away?” “Why didn’t you take the kids away?” They can’t win. In this case while it’s possible that they and the judge made the wrong decision it definitely sounds like a close call to me. The DCF SHOULD intervene with a woman…

“And before everybody goes crazy about not only reading books about someone who is like you, how important it is to read books with lots of different viewpoints, etc.”

The topless thing doesn’t sound like a particularly rational law to me, but there were also disorderly conduct charges though we don’t get many details. If they were breaking down physical barriers then yeah, they might be doing things that would lose sympathy points with me. You don’t get to react physically to…