That part bugged me too, but also the part where he describes his businesses as “day spas” and then goes on to say that his manicurists are paid $70 a day so all the other nail salons must do that too? I’ve been to a day spa, and they are hella expensive compared to a nail salon. I would expect his manicurists to make…

My dumbest kitchen thing delights me to no end. It’s a spray bottle top with a sort of corkscrewed bottom. Take a lemon or lime, cut about 1/4 off the end, screw in this weird device and BOOM citrus juice sprayer.

No, but I just Google’d “Salyer” & “tomato” and that’s a very interesting story.

Please tell me more. Or, jump over to Carolyn Hax’s page on the Washington Post site and write in your story for her Wedding Hootenanny.

It was in California, in the mid-80s.

Here’s a Ketchup/Catsup Fun Fact. I worked for a few weeks one summer counting tomato trucks on their way to processing. The “good” tomatoes on the top of the truck went to the produce aisle. The “ok” tomatoes in the middle went to canning. The tomatoes at the bottom went to “Catsup,” and the stems, leaves and tomato…

Indubitably.

We refer to this sort of overclaiming as “the article I’m writing for American Jackass Magazine.” For years I took credit for making that up, but then I heard an old This American Life episode that spoke of the phenomenon as “Modern Jackass Magazine” and I was chagrined.

When this rule was adopted, an experienced foster parent was all up in the news saying she would rather the state remove her health-compromised infant foster child than get flu shots for herself and her teenager. An *experienced* foster parent decided that disrupting a foster placement was preferable to a flu shot. So…

Summed up very nicely. I’m pretty much keeping a list of white men who write about Coates as my “do not read, ignore forever” list.

Yes, Landmark is the former EST and is crazypants. A friend of mine got into it a few years ago and now we have an agreement that he isn’t allowed to say “Landmark” or “Forum” in my presence because he used those words up in the first year.

I can't believe I'm defending J Crew, but the cardigans at J Crew Factory actually hold up pretty well. Catch them on a holiday weekend and the Charlie merino crew is @$30.

Sharvin, that’s awesome. All the ladies in my grandmother’s family used to tat and I’ve got drawers-full of tatted pieces, but I’ve never learned myself. How can I learn?

A friend’s daughter is a theater major at a local university so we go and see all of her shows. College-level theater is the last bastion of white male affirmative action - the women have to train, audition, and work hard to get parts, but a man can pretty much just show up and get a lead. [Of course it’s a ton of…

Did you imagine him as a fancy duck-billed gentleman? I did.

Thank you! I can’t believe I had to scroll through so many comments before someone caught that.

Am I the only human on earth who would buy a package of Oreo Not Stufft? I only like the cookie. The sugared lard middle is nope. (To me! You can like it all you want!)

I once went down an internet rabbit hole searching for this video. Also the one with the kittens in the dollhouse (on mobile or I would find and link that one.)

If Dr. R. Gay were to offer up a night of watching TV and drinking wine with her as some sort of fundraiser thing, I would cash in my 401K. If we could watch Scandal, I would rob a bank. Srs.

P.S. Faludi really failed to address race, class and LGBT issues in Backlash - it’s totally White Lady Feminism - but her take down of Fatal Attraction was great.