One of my daughter’s was proposed too just a month or so ago, and her fiance came over to ask for permission. Polish-American family on his side, the tradition runs deep.

If you read a statement by someone (e.g. “Trump is a terrible speaker”), but you have no further information, then I think you probably should stop right there when it comes to trying to explain why you think the statement’s author feels as they do.

No, no, I was just referencing back to your (excellent) list.

The nuance would come from noticing that, in the absence of specific adjectives (such as those you mentioned), it is hard to judge the reason for a negative assessment. And if a conclusion is going to be lept to, then it should be accompanied by an explicit explanation of why.

My issue is that I don’t even want to attach any adjectives to it. I don’t like listening to Trump, or Guiliani, or (Jeremy) Corbyn, or Warren, or Clinton. I’m not sure I should have to figure out how to be more specific about my dislikes in order to avoid being accused of sexism if I say that about Clinton in…

And yet, on another online forum generally populated by smart academics, a mere mention of not appreciating HRC’s voice, with no adjectives, leads to a lecture about sexism. If Cruz had won the Republican convention, I’d probably talk about how irritating I find his voice and presentation way more than I’ve ever done…

The republican plan is not to pay for the cost of aborting a fetus, but to reduce the cost of raising a ward of the state to zero (or as close to it as possible).

How is it clear? How can you tell?

Hypothetically speaking, lets just assume that there is a person who is actually not biased. Let’s further assume that this person actually did like Obama’s speech but didn’t like Clinton’s. Let’s further assume that they thought about the reasons why and concluded that it wasn’t the language (or body language) but…

in which one of the USA’s olympic rowers asks y’all to stop talking about this aspect of the Rio games:

In the 1970's or early 1980's there were printed articles about a NASA study that concluded that the best way to recover from jet lag was to have sex (or at least an orgasm) close to the (local) time you might typically have done so at home. Apparently the report was not published. Just sayin’

I’m bored with people like who are bored with people like me because they don’t get that even though we (the olds) invented the damn technology, you tell us we don’t have the right to critique its impact or its use, despite that some of us having been using it for longer than some of you have been alive.

it’s more than possible to carry on a lengthy monologue or discussion in bite-sized, character-limited chunks, so that aspect is just objectively, demonstrably wrong.

It just doesn’t seem as though “Clinton is a part of teh Jewish Conspiracy” is a part of the Trump playbook, whereas “Clinton is crooked and awash in cash from corporate donors” certainly is. I know there is a part of the conservative rightwing that is distinctly anti-Semitic (at least with regards to American Jews),…

Does anyone really think that this was actually anti-semitic, or even nod-nod-wink-wink anti-semitic? I’m as anti-Trump as anyone, but I’m really having a hard time with the outrage about this, and with the media coverage. I’m not even asking if Trump is or is not anti-semitic, just whether anyone thinks that anyone…

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back— Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to…

I don’t disagree with you that the cultural context is important (even if I don’t totally agree that it is specifically misogynistic aspects of it that have contributed to this development). But I think that to ignore the impact of technology and economics on behaviour as you’re suggesting is unwise.

Certainly there’s context. But some of that context is technological and economic. What other societies and cultures have there been where pubic hair grooming is so easy and so (relatively) affordable? Back before the days of the “safety razor”, lots of men didn’t shave anywhere nearly as often as they did after its…

And when a man shaves his face, that’s so that he can look like a young boy again?

So close to incredible greatness, but so overwhelmed by the clash between the deep humanity of everything but the beats and the beats themselves. Too bad that opening section doesn’t exist as its own song, too.