He's not saying that everyone who opts out of vaccinating is rich, he's citing the stat in the article itself that the opt-out clusters correlate to factors associated with high socioeconomic status. It's important to note these correlations because then we can start getting to the bottom of why that's happening, and…

The fact that Terry Richardson is 48 is not surprising, because he looks 48. But he also looked 48 ten years ago, when, I can only assume, he was 38. It's strange for me to even imagine Terry Richardson as a man in his 30s, because it feels like he was born a 40+ creeper.

Beyoncé hiring her own photographers and videographers is not in itself strange. But allowing other photographers normal access to her shows wouldn't preclude them doing that. Her publicist's mistake was in treating Buzzfeed like an outlet with which they'd had some kind of pre-arranged interview or press opportunity,…

I agree with you so completely, and you articulate this beautifully (and with the same economy that makes M.M. herself so deft.)

No, it wasn't a reasonable request. It's reasonable for her to request photo approval over images being released by organizations for whom she is directly working—so, say, any "official event photographers" employed by CBS or the NFL. But not from journalists simply covering the Super Bowl as a public event/news story.

I totally agree with you about the way this is characterized, which is AWFUL. I'm not sure if this is addressed in the other comments (I know you've gotten many), but I think it's also worth noting that the fact that Brown talks about the incident in this way is not uncommon of abuse victims, and doesn't mean he was…

This is a clever and elegant solution—I think OrangeLantern's point is that she didn't want the aunt to go un-thanked if she HAD given a gift, which I totally understand and remember being the case with one or two people when I got married. But since the aunt actually did provide lots of help, there's a reason to send…

Yes, I can think of nothing more fun than a public ritual where lots of adults pin cash all over the body of a young woman. No problematic implications there whatsoever.

The persistence of this totally inaccurate idea is so confusing to me. My girl Miss Manners happens to (again) address this very issue in a recent column (in relation to birthday parties, in this case): "A guest is someone to whom refreshment and entertainment are freely given. It is not someone to whom these are sold…

God, I love her. And can we talk about how funny she is? She does not get enough credit for being funny.

It's so bad. It's like the entire concept of hospitality has vanished.

I know! That was actually my favorite part of the essay, because it demonstrates so clearly that having special needs doesn't preclude kids from forging their own identities and learning to navigate the world in ways independent of their parents/caregivers.

"I didn't make a point of pretending that I'm good, moral, or humble, so it's not fair of you to notice that I'm not."

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Oh, well, there's nothing wrong with that, either.

Sinatra...pretty...ugly...does not compute...

Ha...there was this awful period in May-June when I was at work every night until 11, usually in the office by myself, and usually about 10pm I would have to have a spontaneous dance break just to push through the rest of the night. I'm sure I looked like a crazy person.

Agreed.

That bit where she's explaining why she can't discuss legal issues with her fellow housewives sounds like a little girl parroting back what mommy just told her about why we don't touch the hot stove.

I wonder if it's even some kind of combination of Italian region-of-origin and North American region-of-settlement. My New Jersey-Neapolitan ILs drop the "a," but my Midwest-Sicilian family never did.