One of the things I loved about Winter Soldier is that she and Cap DON’T get together.

Evans, at least, managed an actual apology. Tip for Renner: “just blowing off steam” is not the same as “I screwed up and I’m sorry.”

I suspect many people who are SO ANGRY about how the flag gets treated are not actually angry about the flag, but about all the hippies and Wikileakers and the lesbian weddings and people expecting respect for their foreign holidays and the brown man in the White House.

Susan Slusser has no need to make shit up. She’s been covering the A’s for more than a decade and is respected enough to have been the first woman elected president of the BBWAA. She probably owns reporter’s notebooks older than Grant Stevens.

1980s version: Lipstick Vogue (Elvis), Non-Alignment Pact (Pere Ubu), Independence Day (Comsat Angels), You Can’t Be Too Strong (Graham Parker), Johnny Hit and Run Paulene (X), Why’d Ya Do It? (Marianne Faithfull).

You could make a whole late-night bruised-heart drive playlist from Bob Dylan alone, arranged in the stages of relationship grieving: Positively 4th Street, Don’t Think Twice, Visions of Johanna, Just Like a Woman, If You See Her Say Hello, Tangled Up in Blue.

In this country, at least, the decision to wear a headscarf is voluntary and the students I’ve had who chose to cover their heads were anything but retiring.

There is some difference between “their rudeness hurt your feelings” and “they have blood on their hands.”

This level of illiteracy and agnosia is way too damn common among my people, and I just want to apologize on behalf of white folks everywhere. Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with us?

Seriously. If Burning Man can figure out how to provide adequate toilet facilities in the middle of the desert, Cubs management ought to be able to find a porta-john supplier in Chicago.

That is a really, REALLY extreme version of “sleep training.” And yeah, expecting an 8-week-old to go 12 hours without nursing or being changed seems nuts.

But wait, people sit in church so... forcing my kid to sit in public school is leading her in a religious observation!

the restraint and composure of a Donald Sterling

When “well-spoken” or “articulate” is used to describe black people, it often comes with an extra side of “I really didn’t expect that from someone of your skin color.”

Hey, if Emma Watson can manage it... But on the other hand, Ms. Watson has an Ivy League education.

It is the lack of historical perspective. "Third Wave feminism" — TLDR for "I can be girly AND powerful" — has been an actual thing for, like, 25 years. Also, jeeze, saying Germaine Greer comes on too strong, given what life was like for women in 1970, is like saying Stokely Carmichael should have toned it down or…

Well, I guess I just became a comic book fan again.

TBH, this is why laws are being proposed that explicitly protect women's right to breastfeed in public. They shouldn't be necessary, but douchebags.

A business has the legal right to refuse service to customers as long as that refusal isn't discriminatory — that is, based on the customer's race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and in some jurisdictions, sexual orientation. If a business feels somebody's attire is going to drive away other customers, they can and will…