I read that, too, and absolutely would have believed it. I could totally see him being one of those guys who always just happens to —oops!—brush your breast when he’s trying to pick an imaginary piece of lint off your shoulder.

I had an Argentinian teacher for all of high school. When I was about to take the AP exam, she was like, “Oh, yeah, BTW, don’t speak with my accent because you’ll get points off if you pronounce the double L the way we do. Good luck!”

In general, the departments that keep track of who is licensed and who isn’t are woefully understaffed. When I was a massage therapist, there were two state employees to not only keep a record of who was licensed but to investigate any reports of someone practicing without a license. Basically, unless someone reports…

Rutina Wesley was too good for True Blood. I think part of the problem was that her character was not in the books and so the writers didn’t quite know what to do with her. She was clearly so talented but just given nothing to do with it.

He evidently knew about it while it was going on and even visited the place and participated in some of the voyeurism, but didn’t write about it until many years later.

Honestly, that’s a smarter and more interesting email than the ones JSF and NP wrote to each other.

While I was still bleeding from my second miscarriage, I ran into the pastor of the church I grew up in. He knew I’d gotten married a few years earlier. “No children?” he said. “When are you going to grow your family? I hate seeing young people putting off having children when they are married and set in their lives.…

Thank god for cell phone cameras.

Sadly, I’ve been seeing that interpreted on social media as “he was wanted by the police for robbery” and therefore was justified in shooting him. So much there will make your head explode (holy misinterpretation, Batman; even if it were accurate, is execution the penalty for robbery? I feel like that might be a…

I don’t like these cases. People should be prosecuted and punished when they rape or harass others, and there are many, many, many cases where the justice system has done a piss poor job of protecting women and people of color when they are victims of crimes. But I’m uncomfortable with charging someone with a murder…

You wrote “processed as criminal charges.” You didn’t specify convicted or convicted of a particular charge or sentenced to a particular punishment. Just criminally charged. You probably should have been more specific if you had something stronger in mind. But then again, Phoebe Prince’s harassers were in fact…

Not true:

Don’t we all.

Someone related to my husband once told me, in a discussion about a situation like this, “Well, some women bring this shit on themselves. They push and they push and eventually everybody gets killed.” I avoid him at family gatherings now.

That Texas woman wasn’t a reverse Atwood—she was a straight up Medea. That’s some classical shit right there.

Yeah, I kind of think that’s the point of marriage—your spouse becomes your next of kin and gets to decide what happens to your body after you die (within reason-they probably shouldn’t be able to keep you as a necrotic sex doll or something). It is really terrible to lose a child, but if they were married, then the…

I was in high school when the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet came out (I’m an old person). On a test about the play, one of my classmates answered the question “How did Romeo and Juliet meet?” with the answer “They saw each other through a fish tank.”

It’s because they spelled it with a g in the middle. If they’d spelled it Jinjer, it would make a lot more sense and people wouldn’t default to thinking it’s a hard g sound in the middle. Ugh, the Duggars.

I check up every now and then on the half dozen or so FB friends I have who have been vocal supporters of his. They’ve gotten a lot quieter of late. And it seems like a lot of their FB friends are hitting them back a bit when they post positive things about him. Additionally, their defenses of him seem to be limited…

I don’t blame cast members one bit for being ready to leave. They do, what, 8 shows a week? Keeping that up for a year is rough, and playing the same character and experiencing the same emotions every night can be brutal. Sucks for people who have tickets for after July and were hoping to see her and Miranda, but I…