What’s the converse of purity testing...impurity testing? Whereby every GOP official—whether they’re dumb, shallow, misguided, unqualified, whatever—is ultimately just as malevolent as Steve Bannon? I said this downthread but there will always be bad policy. Bad policy is part of politics. If we had a…

DeVos is a rich lady who accepted a vanity job so she can appear gracious and benevolent in public. It’s volunteering with children, on steroids. She’s not sinister. This is ego-stroking charity work to her. Given the choice between a charitable stance and an uncharitable stance, I expect her to take the more…

Urban is a euphamism for black, dating to the “colorblind” days when it was inappropriate to mention someone’s race. At this point, it’s an industry-standard term, just like “Person of Color” (even white people have ‘a color’) is here but we don’t see people getting hung up on this because even if the term isn’t…

Lately I’ve felt so inundated by all the things that are broken (up to and including Grammy genre categories) that I can’t even muster the will or optimism to fix them—I just want to buy a cheap parcel of land, build a tiny house and figure out some kind of subsistence living for the next 10 years (at least).

Oh my god. It was 13 years ago! He apologized! How long do we have to keep being asshats about it before we can say we were sufficiently outraged enough to make ourselves feel good again?

Seriously. My brother hated my dad because he had the nerve to enforce rules. Lord knows what would have happened if he only had my, “but I’m a cool mom!” mother as the adult in his life.

Thank you.

I agree with that. I was responding to the OP’s basic premise, not the details of the Thicke case specifically.

I think when one of the parents has a history of both abuse and substance abuse, you can’t carte blanche give them unfettered visitation.

This “kids know what’s best for themselves” logic is so foreign to me. I only hear it from parents whose children prefer them to their exes, and people who believe that a childhood with elements of severe, dangerous dysfunction is a universal experience. So they’re either operating as an interested party…

I like Ben. I’m not sure why he gets so much shit. Then again, I don’t need to deal with him in real life so.......?

Do you have a newsletter or pamphlet I can subscribe to???

Dayum...you is genius. So brill.

Do you, by any chance, have a life-coaching opening next week? I need more of this.

I like the way you think.

She needed a better exit strategy. I’d settle for a home, a million dollars in cash, custody of the kids, and the freedom to discuss all details of the marriage and divorce publicly. Then I’d meet with a ghostwriter, fast-track my tell-all, do a TED talk on surviving divorce, and spend the rest of my life giving…