This is tangential, but why do all of the Jez stories now have "pictures" of the "writers" next to them?

I was thinking about my strong, visceral reaction here, and I realized that it's as a relative and friend of many adoptees and adoptive parents. These are real parents and real families. Now do they all have to live in fear of backsies? Who would adopt a child knowing that there's now a potential rule of backsies,…

The guy decided to give up his parental rights rather than pay child support, and then he was all, like, "backsies!" Perhaps if he was so, uh, everything he says he now is, he shouldn't have told the kid's mom he didn't want to have anything to do with the situation, at the time it was actually relevant to say so.

I know so many good people who have successfully gotten out of West Virginia and gone on to have fascinating and productive lives in America. I'm glad Katelyn will join their ranks. I think somewhere deep down I'm convinced that West Virginia actually *is* District 12.

And from the original Yale Daily News piece:

As long as Yale and Harvard continue to generate a disproportionate number of rich and/or powerful people, I think they're relevant media topics. All of the past four presidents have had some sort of Yale or Harvard degree. Eight out of nine Supreme Court justices either studied or taught at Yale or Harvard, albeit…

Most don't. Read through - it's all frats and football players, which is a weird subculture which isn't even adjacent to most Yalies' lifestyles. At least it wasn't when I was there.

Wine? What is this, "Cougar Town?" These girls don't sound 21, they sound 40.

In "The Marvelous Land of Oz" there's a revolution where the women take over* and make the men do all the housework, and the men are just exhausted and miserable all the time. The Scarecrow asks one poor slob "if it's such hard work, how could the women do it so easily?" and the man says, "perhaps the women are made…

I wonder if that happened to me.

There seems to be some weird Maryland Greek thing going on that maybe all of us not from Maryland don't understand and that we need someone from Maryland to explain.

I'm from New York. When I was living in the UK, I didn't have anywhere to go for Passover, and I casually mentioned it to my boss. He invited me over. "I didn't know you were Jewish!" I said. "Yes," he said sheepishly. "We try to keep a low profile."

Whereas among New York City professionals or Brooklyn hipsters, tanned skin is generally a symbol of a lack of "cultural capital," a phrase I just learned half an hour ago from another Jezebel poster and will now use many times today. It's tacky.

Yes! I had never heard that term before and I completely agree. So how did it go from Coco Chanel, who was definitely haute, to people with low cultural capital? Or was it always that way?

There's something a little more complicated here that I'm hoping you guys can let me unpack. In my experience, tanning has to do with not just whiteness, but ... anti-intellectualism, sort of.

THIS.

Added: Or Baltimore? Lots of Jewish kids in Baltimore.

I'm speaking as a Jewish guy, but neither this nor the sorority response makes any sense to me. (The sorority response, especially, is full of jargon that I really don't understand - what is an 'away weekend?') This seems to me much more about how Greeks in Maryland hook up than about anything having to do with Jewish…

I know I'm on the losing side of this argument, but the way I was raised, students do not insult teachers to their face, period. It's not a peer relationship, or at least it wasn't when I was in school. If you have a problem with a teacher, you take it to the administration, or to another teacher who you trust who can…

We clearly have different ideas of what's appropriate student behavior in a classroom context, I doubt we'll agree there, and I guess that'll have to be OK, because this is a pointless argument on the Internet that probably won't actually have an impact on anyone's lives. Perhaps we can find common ground in…