I'm covered on all the security basics, but I leave the Pipl and Spokeo and other stuff up there. Why? Because according to all of them I'm a man in my 70s who lives on a "millionaire's row" in a city I no longer live in, who's related to people I don't know from Adam. Oh, and here's one that has me at an address I…

Same here. I loved the show in high school, and when I met him in person (via Sulu) he was kind and generous with his time.

It was a popular hit in the novelty category and wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Dr. Demento played it on the radio week-in and week-out for years, and fans of the show bought the single or recorded it onto cassette.

I'll certainly take it over the NFL.

He's talking about Bill Belichick (known liar and cheater) not Bill Nye (known Science Guy).

The African-Americans who suffered during the Draft Riots would beg to differ. NYC hasn't been all that more tolerant of minorities than the rest of the country in practise, but until recently it has stood out as recognising the economic and cultural benefits of an ethnically diverse city as opposed to the…

Yes, but we're talking about history in the case of Portland. Whatever has been happening in NYC over the past two decades as it's transformed into a whiteopia playground for the wealthy, the city was previously known for encouraging diversity since its founding (local native-Americans excluded, of course). Portland…

They didn't single out Bend. Is it particularly racist?

I think the point is that what we perceive as a liberal enclave has a racist past more associated with Southern backwaters, and that in some part it has the luxury of being a liberal enclave in part because of that racist past.

They don't discuss the racist history of Portlandia, but friends there have told me since the 1980s that once you cross east of the Cascades you enter into some serious white supremacist and militia territory.

I can guarantee you that the same old crank and his wife constantly complain to their friends about the opera dying because kids today are too lazy and impatient to sit through one.

They do take a lot of credit for the accomplishments of the Silent Generation, don't they? The Boomers may have attended Woodstock, but the people who organised it and performed on-stage were from the older generation. It's no wonder the Boomers morphed into the suburban "Bourgeois Bohemians" (a term of approval…

Dunham–the child of New York artists who are successful but are definitely not household names

That's a good guess. If so she's probably puzzled that they don't understand how she needed that affair, for her own health and self-actualisation. Don't they remember how unhappy she was in her marriage, and how they did nothing to help her? Kids today can be so selfish.

That's the tell: the person who can't see herself as the common factor in all those toxic relationships. Nope, everyone else is the problem and she's just perfect!

The whole thing is amazing, since the whole culture of giving every kid an award for just breathing was a Boomer thing to begin with, mainly because they thought it would reflect well on them as parents. But now that "culture of self esteem" just magically instilled itself in the Millenials.

Good for you. I hope you enjoy the same sense of liberation and unburdening that I did last year when I cut a toxic person out of my life.

So true. If you ever want to see an example of inter-generational hatred, look no further than the loathing and disdain that the Boomers, special world-changing snowflakes that they were, had for the Greatests.

I have to hand it to her. I'm impressed at her ability to meld her personal blind narcissism with her generation's in a bid for sympathy and attention, and her delusion that taking her self-serving account to the Internet would fool anyone under age 50.

The people over in the news side of the WSJ office must be having greater-than-normal conniption fits over this latest idiocy from the op-ed side. Which means the entire building must look like it's at the epicentre of an 8.0 quake instead of the usual 4.0.