That’s what I meant. He said in the original post, “I have lived in seven states in my lifetime, and only one of them—the one where I currently reside—has a big public hard-on for its flag.”

Yes. Here is the Baltimore Flag. It is Calvert family black and gold with an image of Baltimore’s Washington Monument. (which was the first monument to Washington, I believe) Think about that. On the flag of a city, they feature a monument to someone who never even lived here. (I think there are plans to create a…

Well, the passage, implementation, and interpretation of laws forces people and institutions to choose between a series of options if they wish not to break the law. Sure. But they don’t force anyone to reach a SPECIFIC choice. There are always options and people and institutions have agency to choose.

It’s not about money. I mean it is, but it’s not supposed to be. It’s all about education. Or it’s supposed to be. The purported reason to have sports on college campuses is because they are part of the educational experience either directly for the student athlete or to enhance the experience of other students.

You just did it. You assumed that men’s football is completely untouchable as some sort of law of nature and that schools have no choice but to keep it at the present size and gut all the other sports. And that’s just not true. At all. Schools. Have. Choices. They CHOSE not to touch football. A conscious, financial…

I was looking for a still from Take Down but couldn’t find one. So just imagine Lorenzo Lamaz, Maureen McCormick, and Edward Hermann rolling around on a wrestling mat with the caption, “Here either.”

I think the myth in question is not whether Title IX negatively impacted college wrestling but that the blame lies with one or more of the branches of the federal government. (Or “Title IX” caused it, which is stupid because laws don’t make anyone do anything. The people who pass, implement, and interpret the law do.)…

No. A railroad museum in the southwest. Thomas gets around.

I agree. I have stopped reading a few series because the worlds the author created are so bleak and there is so much suffering and lack of joy that I find myself actively rooting for the forces of evil. I’m not there yet for GoT, but it’s a close thing. I find myself more and more on Team White Walker. Give them a…

Her other problem, in my opinion, is that she couches the whole thing as an argument why people should do this. “Making the case” as it were. These are very personal decisions, as are all decisions related to weddings, and this is either right for a couple and their friends or it isn’t. You can’t make the case to…

So you’re basically just hung up on the label?

EXACTLY! I had a coworker who was totally whipped into having a lame bachelor party and had to include family and he was forced to have family in his party. Sadly, it was his mom who had him whipped. Worst. Bachelor. Party.Ever.

I have 20 years of museum experience. Most of those rented themselves out for private parties. I have found people having sex in the weirdest places. With enough alcohol people will have sex anywhere, even in the cab of a 3/4 scale Thomas the Tank Engine. That’s way more uncomfortable and less romantic/arousing than…

How can you play quarters with old bong water if you only have joints?

And under NO circumstances should the bride secretly appear as the stripper at the bachelor party to entertain the groom’s friends. I have read stories about when this happens on the internet and it never ends well. At least well for the groom. Sometimes it ends TOO well for the bride, if you know what I mean. And I…

This is one of the main reasons a couple of my friends have had joint parties. First, both bride and groom had friends of diverse genders. Plus they share a lot of friends across the spectrum. Why divide up? Why force a lesbian woman to go to a bachlorette party and wear penis hats or make your gay male friends go to…

To take as much money from you as possible while delivering as little actual sex as possible.

So even if you have a drunken party in honor the bride and groom, we can’t call it a bachelor/ette party if it is just a drunken party to honor the bride and groom? What does this type of gathering need to earn that label in your mind*? It has to be segregated by gender? It has to have nudity or porn?

And that’s a problem because......

The worst bachelor parties I have ever been to have involved strip clubs. The best never have.