Wow, making a dickish reply to a comment from seven months ago? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel there. Why don’t you go make like your namesake, and pontificate pointlessly about the proper height and moisture of grass.

Last night, after watching the Stan/Peggy scene and drying my tears, I said to myself, “I can’t wait to fight all the deeply misguided people who are going to hate on this tomorrow, either out of a fundamental misconception of what this show has said about love all along, or some weird limited-ass idea of what Peggy sh…

Based on the polls, the referendum will definitely pass, as long as everyone who says they’ll vote yes does so. (After last week’s British election stunner, this is hardly a sure thing.)

What is the point of your comment on this post, then, if not a derail?

It also assumes that women who get an abortion at 20-weeks do so because they’ve only just then decided they want one. Simultaneously banning later-term abortions while making earlier, less invasive procedures harder to access is a backdoor way to ban all abortions while staying within the letter of the law. It’s…

How could you not post the only quality clip of that episode — aka, Pacey and Joey’s dance?

I’m not sure why this comment is addressed to me, since you’re imputing a lot that I didn’t actually say in my comment.

Your avatar is literally wearing a top hat and a monocle.

If it’s an art form, fine. I’m happy to treat couture like painting or sculpture. Just don’t pretend it has anything to do with what people wear or need in their daily lives, then. The connection between the fashion industry and these sorts of couture pieces is tenuous and insulting to both sides of the equation.

I think it’s fatuous to suggest that a lack of resources or money is the reason why 15.8 million American children are living in food-insecure homes. It would absolutely be possible for the US to adequately feed and house all its citizens — what it lacks is the political willpower. (It’s not a coincidence, by the way,…

I know it’s literally #3 on the list of “Obnoxious Shit American Expats in France Gush Over,” but all the wee French kids I’ve met living here have been voracious, adventurous eaters. Possibly it’s just my sample size, but seeing a five year-old chow down on some fresh sea urchin really leaves an impression. I get the…

Good.

I wonder if this is not just true in the city itself, but in the outlying towns. My parents live in Northern NJ, in a town with a sizeable Korean minority. The population is about 12,000 and there are five nail salons I can count off the top of my head. I know they’re frequented both by white and Korean people, but I…

As I said elsewhere, I’ve never been a Larry Stylinson tinhatter, but this Zayn-Louis-Naughty Boy feud is a lot more entertaining when viewed as a messy breakup. Especially since Louis was arguably Zayn’s closest friend in the band (they’re the ones who got caught smoking weed, for example).

I think what he’s suggesting is that the media is covering this story in a way that only makes the underlying issues worse — and now those same reporters are getting high and mighty about their rights.

One of the things I always loved about Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield were their attempts to use the paparazzi’s attention to spread the word about worthy causes in a snarky, low-tech way:

Just another example of how desperate men are to find a loophole or extenuating circumstance that would allow them unfettered access to women’s bodies.

I don’t think he was actually a rapist. I just think he was a military historian who finds the idea of women in his field threatening, especially women who are interested in studying more than the old-fashioned operational “tanks and submarines and diagrams of battlefields” type of history of war.

Actually, I lucked out — in one of my explanatory footnotes, I’d buried a quote by Stalin where he says almost the exact same thing to a critic, so I was able to pull it up and read it aloud.

Disgusting. Sadly enough, this sort of shit happens in the humanities as well as the hard sciences. I once presented a paper on the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers in 1945, only to have a peer suggest that because I wasn’t a man, I “couldn’t understand what it was like for those soldiers” — as though a) I…