This. The sort of public humiliation-as-punishment that makes the news isn't about disciplining the kid, it's about the parent and their own need for attention and validation.

Yup. The best thing I can think of to say about this article is "Good job not making a rape joke, this time."

I dunno... have you met people before? They're pretty fucking stupid.

I kinda hope that he referred to her as 'J Law' in daily conversations while they were together. I hope all her significant others do that.

Alternate explanation:

I came here to say the same thing. Piers Morgan did so much more to earn his public shaming than Ms. Lewinsky ever did.

I see a touch of hypocrisy in this as well.

Right. Being drunk doesn't change who you are. It removes your inhibitions, and that's about it.

My dad's middle name is Wayne. My mom makes fun of him regularly for this.

I'd recommend you fill your crown royal bag with assorted dice. I've known dozens of tabletop gaming nerds who do exactly that, and will carry a CR bag full of dice with them everywhere they go.

I might give Sherrif Acciardo some benefit of the doubt- he could have been implying "you never know when some dude you're talking to online could be misrepresenting himself as a sane, normal person with whom you might want a relationship, when he's actually a food-throwing, strangle-happy psychopath."

I'd counter your '0 planets' answer here. I believe that ones individual right to not have to see part of a boob (gasp) is more important than a woman's right to feed her baby on Neptune. Anyone who doesn't like the way we do it here on Earth can go there, and stay.

This. I'm legit worried about the second possibility here. When you've got a big-name reality TV star slowly fading into irrelevance, they tend to do whatever stupid shit they can to grab whatever attention they can get- see the assorted (very, very public) crimes committed by the Jersey Shore crowd, the (also very,…

Agreed! That's a fate no one should have to face.

if you go for the blood of a very drunk virgin, you can kill two birds with one bath!

Huh- I never would have guessed. It looks just like a rock-climbing carabiner to me.

That was my understanding too, that it's a mispronounciation of 'beau'.

Some people would call what Hale did as stalking, others are deluded and potentially crazy.

The term 'do-gooder' doesn't apply to someone like, say an unassuming and generous volunteer at a local homeless shelter. The term 'do-gooder' applies to assholes like Bono, or efforts like the NFL's breast cancer awareness, or the Susan Komen 'charity' in general.

It shouldn't take any understanding of microbiology to figure this out. It shouldn't take more than the most basic common sense.