I just hope you're going to be able to instill in them the rare ability among teenagers to make good long-term choices that will affect the rest of their life and could literally, given how the expenses stack up now and are likely to stack up even worse in the future, mean the difference between success or…

Okay, but think about how much more difficult your path was than your parents' (if they went to college) — and then think about how much more difficult their path likely was than the college experience of their parents. What makes you think that this pattern won't continue to get worse? Your future children are at…

So none of your children are going to college.

um, if people are making less than a living wage, in food service or another industry, you're already supporting them, through the social safety net that we've set up.

Ugh, this is the same article that's been written about Bale for months. If you're going to try to cover the Madrid beat with something approaching balance, there are much more interesting stories — I'd suggest the recent interview where former vice-captain Guti admitted to having spent two years of his playing career…

Ah, Billy Haisley's hot take. Always reliable, our Billy.

I completely agree with you that "fitness" and "progress" are different; my other comments here have probably been more clear on this. What I meant was, the way that evolution is routinely deployed in cultural arguments is based on this misunderstanding of evolution as progress.

Yes, this! Gosh, it's amazing how pervasive this misinterpretation of evolution is. I'm teaching a college course on modern European history right now, and I've been struck by how difficult it is to get students to think critically about concepts like Social Darwinism and eugenics, because they accept the idea that…

Yeah, but evolution in particular, in contrast with anthropology, implies progress. You don't need to look to the past to suggest that cultural norms are just that; having a sense of the world as it currently exists in its diversity should be enough. But the way that evolution is deployed in the field of cultural…

I can't quite tell from this article, but I'm curious: do people in polyamorous relationships consider it an inherent part of their identity, akin to sexuality? Does monogamous-desiring privilege exist, in this culture? Or is that now how the discourse is framed?

I made the mistake of clicking on the Gerber sandwich link:

You know, there's a lot to hate about Dan Harmon, but I've always appreciated the fact that he was so vocal about the fact that the writer's room of "Community" was enriched by being half women in the first two seasons. I wonder if some of the uneven quality of the show's latter half (and in particular its poor…

there was pretty much no argument for anyone other than Barça having the strongest forward line on the planet

You sound like a real expert on black French culture.

she's the urban ethel beavers!

the geordie accent is nothing in comparison with scouse.

bravo for austin!

but i thought only women didn't understand the offside rule...

You can of course have any opinion you like, but when your opinion isn't supported by the facts of the article — again, the parents say they trained the kids to go out on their own on shorter routes; they evaluated their children's maturity levels and had a plan in place for the children's emergency contacts (read the…

it's ironic that your prior experience with medication was for allergies.... back in the day, the only thing that helped with my brain shivers was taking benadryl. somehow it would calm them down until i could get my next dose!