I find the Jones label useful (as much as any label can be useful). Most people associate Boomers with events like Woodstock and the Vietnam War; if you were born in 1960, those things had little to do with your late-adolescent and adult life. If we define Boomers solely by the two-decade birth bulge, we miss that…

I have a relative who treats her daughter that way. She would be horrified to learn that other people are concerned about how she relates to her child, but the poor kid is the super-mega-star of a lavish 24/7 praise party on her mother's Facebook page — which she's old enough to be able to read.

We second-half Boomers (1954-65) really belong to a different cohort:

My old Boston buddies and I would sometimes drive out to Woodman's for the outdoor clambake, which we always called "steamers 'n bug". I've also eaten the Australian crustaceans that are widely known as Moreton Bay bugs. All I can say is: Two legs good, four legs also good, but ten legs awesome!

Thanks for the recipe! That's actually how I order my Americanos now (very light on the hot water).

I don't know which is more depressing: George Zimmerman himself, or the idiotic ammosexuals who lionize the bastard. On what planet is it a good thing for a narcissistic dim bulb with anger management problems and a seething hatred for his own species to be trotted out to glad-hand the public at gun shows?

One winter, when I was in my twenties, I had several back-to-back bouts of bad colds and flu, which caused me to cough a lot, which caused me to have pains in my upper right side, which sent me to the ER so that they could take X-rays to rule out cracked ribs. Which they did — nothing broken, so I was sent home to…

Are they typically made that way? (Whichever way they're usually done, I never met a long black that I didn't like!)

Flat whites are okay, but my favorite antipodean coffee specialty is the long black. Basically an americano, although I think it's made via a long pull rather than with added hot water. Drank long blacks (touch of cold milk on the side) around large swaths of Australia some years back. Ordered an americano in the LA…

He's "sexy" in the same way that the mildly cute but always a little weird high school guy who dropped out of sight for 20 years and then got his name in the papers after his arrest after nearly blowing himself up running a meth lab is sexy.

Scientists can't get funded, law school grads can't get hired by firms, skilled factory workers get downsized, and people still pay this woman to be a public anti-intellectual?

We use the "free and clear" kinds, and they really don't smell of anything. They do, however, have a consistency that's quite unlike oil. (Not to mention that most cooking oils aren't colorless.) And if someone accidentally added it to cake batter, it would probably foam up when the mixer hit it.

Right after college, I shared an apartment with a friend who had also been a co-worker when we were living in a different city. Some married guy back in City 1 kept hitting on her. She managed to keep him at bay, but a few months later he flew to our area (City 2) on business, and left her a message on our answering…

The author could post it as a missed connection. "You're pregnant, and you and your son flew out from [airport] to visit your parents on [date]. Your husband whose first name is [name], unless that was another thing he likes to lie about, was trolling for hookups on Craigslist that day and tricked me into dating him.…

How does a business like this make any money by staying open 24 hours on Christmas Day, even if they're paying their long-suffering employees shit wages? How many customers will they get during that time? Four? Five? Unless they're in a big city or near a highway exit ramp, why would anyone who celebrates the holiday…

I threw a truly awful, insane-snowflake hissy fit in public one NYE. Must have been the last day of either 1985 or 1986. I hadn't been dating Mr. Sububi all that long. We lived in the Boston area and decided to go to First Night. Predictably, it was ass-biting cold, most of the venues had such long lines that there…

As horrible as rape drugs are, I sincerely hope that no one can get hold of actual Spanish fly these days. It's a poison derived from meloid beetles, whose defensive secretions can blister human skin. In small amounts, it causes bladder irritation that stimulates painful erections in males. In large amounts, it's…

It's an excellent point, and one that should be made repeatedly. At least one woman has described having a consensual affair with Cosby — and being shocked when, during one of their trysts, he drugged her anyway. It wasn't about adultery, wasn't about "wildness", wasn't even about simple horniness. Consensual adultery…

Okay, so adult women should never have even one alcoholic drink. Or even a coffee; at least one of Cosby's victims was rendered nearly unconscious via drugged cappuccino. And maybe not consume any kind of food, since someone might slip a roofie into the soup.

Those deep-fried won-ton-ish things are often served with soup in Chinese restaurants in the Midwest and Great Lakes area. Although I like Chinese food in general, I honestly loathe those things. My husband and I always take turns pushing the dish towards each other and wind up eating few if any of them.