In all seriousness: is it just me, or is he dealing with this in about the best way possible? No "sorry if I offended anyone," or any other equivocations like that.

What kind of lap hog is this commie working with, here? Look how far her head is above his waist.

I dunno enough about English accents. He was probably going for cockney slang or something? Ill defer to anyone else on that but he was really talented.

I listened the heck out of my Mary Poppins read-along record when I was a kid (pre-VCR days). I thought Dick Van Dyke was awesome. When I saw reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show years later, I made a comment to my mom that I was amazed at how good his American accent was. She broke it to me that he wasn't actually…

Van Dyke's performance in MP is pretty remarkable in that his accent is legendarily bad, but he somehow still turns in a great performance. His energy in that film is amazing.

Actually, I do think employers have the right to get angry and to get loud if they want to. And you know what I expect if my boss asks me to do something and I tell him no? I expect to get fucking fired.

Oh, right in the feels. I lost my feisty, amazing grandma a few days ago and I've spent the day working on her memorial and obituary and I can't help thinking that if my grandma hadn't been rendered helpless by the stroke, she'd be BFF's with Scott Simon's mom.

It's not Ok *for you*. It's perfectly fine for him to do this as long as he and his mom are Ok with it, as they seem to be.

Scott Simon is a mensch, and the love he has for his mom, and her love for him, is so touching.

Thank you for sharing this. I'm having a stressful awful day and this put things into perspective. It also gave me the cry I so desperately needed.

It's libel.

So my girlfriend is 12 weeks pregnant. She has a massive ovarian cyst that is in danger of rupturing, and she needs to have surgery this week. Since she's not yet in her second trimester, there's a real danger of having a miscarriage. The first time she had pain from the cyst, I had to drive her to the ER at one…