YES. My kind of guy.

I get it now, sorry to have taken it as a generational slam. Whether it's cool or not, many of us boomers are looking forward to retirement with legal pot, which will go a long way toward making up for the fact that we'll be too broke to do anything but sit at home and watch Netflix. It'll be just like college, only…

Are you kidding? Pretentious jerks are not exclusive to any age group, and it's possible to unpretentiously enjoy a nice buzz at (gasp!) 40 - or 60 or 90, whatever. Free to be you and me.

The Caroline Kitchens rape culture story was pretty terrifying.

Not only would we not have "Dude, Where's My Car," but we also wouldn't have Jennifer Garner's great acceptance speech when she won the Golden Globe for Alias in 2002, when she thanks J. J. Abrams for taking a chance on casting her: "I know I was good in 'Dude, Where's My Car,' but seriously?"

I have a favorite memory of being at a college event with a friend who was there taking photos and who was about 11 months pregnant. As we were leaving this sweet gawky college guy comes running after her, saying, "Dude! DUDE!! Here - you dropped your lens cap."

I heard that too - and it really is incredible. The part that floored me the most is when she was saying how she weighed every choice she made against one question - Will this help keep me alive? - and if the answer was yes, she did it. But, as you said, her security in the knowledge of her family's love had to be a…

Also good to know - I have stainless too but a magnet won't stick to the bottom so it's no go, right? (Most of mine is late 90s Martha Stewart from Kmart - really well made and it weighs a freaking ton.)

Ooh, thanks for telling this. I'm glad to hear you're happy with it - since gas isn't a good option here, that's kind of the dream, although I'll have to replace most of my cookware which adds a bunch to the $$.

Another baking soda fiend here. My favorite use lately - I have a solid-surface electric stovetop (I know, so uncool) and when I first moved in, baking soda plus some vinegar and heat and scrubbing took off the weird cooked-on crusty spots that fancy stovetop cleaner wouldn't touch.

I am sitting right beside you on the Couch of Minority Opinion. But really, that kind of cerebral humor isn't going to appeal to most people.

In the beautiful words of Alton Brown: "Imagine a flower: A climbing orchid, to be exact; the one of some twenty thousand varieties that produces something edible. Now imagine that its blooms must be pollinated either by hand or a small variety of Mexican bee, and that each bloom only opens for one day a year. Now…

Thanks, I'll do that! My son just got a Surface that he's using at school, so when he comes home for winter break I can repo it for a couple of days to try it out.

I ended up with a son (now grown) so I had other fish to fry, but looking at my friends with daughters who have struggled with this issue it's mostly about counteracting the sexualization of kids, especially girls, that is so rampant now. That's the biggest difference I see between the 70s/80s and now.

I spent 15 years there, and would have happily stayed if work hadn't required that I leave. West Virginia and Appalachia in general may be the most misunderstood place in the country - or maybe it just feels that way because they're places I love.

A lot of people I work with use them for meeting notes, but I've found that I retain and organize information a million times better if I use pen and paper and then type it into Evernote back at my office. A little extra time but well worth it. Plus I'd be constantly fighting the temptation to hop onto Twitter or…

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.” -Nicole Diver in Tender is the Night.

The first time I saw them do Amanda and Mackenzie, I nearly had a stroke from how funny it was.

I had a friend who was seriously close to dying from C diff, and gross as it sounded a fecal transplant was miraculous in how well and how fast it worked.

I remember reading somewhere a while back that shampoo is perfect for hand washing because it's formulated to remove skin oils, which is a big part of what we're doing when we wash clothes.