Just because he didn’t reflect on it in public doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t reflect on it. Lots of good reasons not to “open a dialogue about consent,” to use your words. He may still feel too close to the experience or be leery of being seen as pandering. I have no idea—I’m just saying that his state of mind…

One time I called Baskin-Robbins to order an ice cream cake for my friend’s birthday and I couldn’t decide between large or extra large. The woman taking my order asked “How many people will you be serving?” and I had to answer truthfully: Four. 

Was that ever said explicitly? Because life insurance is completely separate from the estate, so if he did have a policy it wouldn’t have shown up in the execution of his will.

First: I’m 100 percent pro choice, and old enough to remember the time before Roe. So I’m not in any way defending the antichoice agenda or tactics.
But because of family ties and living in a deep red state I know a significant number of people who hold those beliefs, and among them I’d say it’s a split between those…

Agreed, and in a world where educators could really teach instead of prepping their students for standardized tests, these same conversations could happen in classrooms.

A minor quibble to add to the big-picture criticisms others have already expressed so well, but where’s this coming from?

I didn’t change mine - and I got married in 1982, in eastern Kentucky. It just always seemed wrong to me to take away someone’s name. I mean, where else does that happen but in slavery? The families rolled with it, already geared to expect eccentricity from us. There was occasional confusion—my favorite was when we…

I’m so sorry. Sending prayers for comfort and the strength to keep helping your mom through while grieving yourself.

If I ever get married again, it will be at the Titanic replica in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. I can’t imagine a better start to a marriage. http://www.titanicpigeonforge.com/titanic-weddings/wedding-packages

TJ&E would have sold me this machine on its own. Without it—no thanks.

After my mother-in-law went through all her late brother’s stuff—agonizing over his paintings and diplomas and things that had meant a lot to him but had no place in her life, feeling dumb if she kept them and guilty if she tossed them—she came home and immediately started clearing out all that stuff of hers so her…

One of my favorite former co-workers, in the goof-off time before a staff meeting, listened to three or four guys in a pissing contest over their smartphone specs and apps, then pulled out his flip phone and announced, “I don’t like to brag, but my phone can call a number where they tell me the time AND the…

Here’s something that might be worth a try—I know people mock Planet Fitness, but at least in my experience they are serious about welcoming everybody, and they do not put up with clients treating other clients badly. But whatever path you choose, strength and peace be yours as you fight the good fight.

I inherited a week of Plated from a neighbor—he canceled because he was going to be out of town but they messed up and delivered it anyway, so they refunded his money and he texted me to get it off his porch. The recipes were pretty good and I understood the convenience better after that, although I’d still be…

Ha! Me too, some days.

Thanks—I’m 60 so I’m in approximately the same demographic (unless GMG’s one of those places where “elder” means 40). I can easily imagine people who are kind of meh about JT, but it’s hard for me to imagine anyone actually calling him bad—and yet now I know such people exist.

Ha, yes! Although Todd Rundgren’s Back to the Bars is an example of that last category, and it’s one of my favorites, exactly because it’s a little looser and less produced than most of his.

To each their own, I guess, but before you write him off maybe listen to “Something in the Way She Moves” and consider that George Harrison and Paul McCartney were impressed enough by it to sign him to be the first American to record on Apple—and for George to take the title for the opening of his song “Something”—and…

I love lists, but for this one I’d exclude the ones that are failed experiments from a brilliant musician/band, because every great artist pushes the limits in enough directions that once in a while they’re going to miss. It’s just sort of an unfortunate byproduct of creativity. That still leaves plenty of stuff…

Plus many states and even counties have firewood quarantines thanks to the Emerald Ash Borer, as do many state and national parks. The odds you’ll get caught are low but the fines can be ginormous.