It’s weird how Dawn always gets mentioned in these articles as the standard for grease-cutting dish detergent. In so many studies, from Consumer Reports to Cooks Illustrated to Sweethome, Colgate, Palmolive, Joy, and a dozen other dish detergents have also scored highly, sometimes beating out Dawn. They’re ALL good…

Just focus on England’s habit of choking in the big tournaments. You don’t have to go all the way to their GDP!

We call it soccer because that’s what they called it in England back in the sixties. As the NFL emerged, there was an alternate game called football but calling it soccer is an English thing.

We’re already having fun annoying everyone by calling it soccer; isn’t saying PKs just what we need so we can watch them get all aggravated?

It’s always been my theory that the water quality decreases in America as you move further south. I lived in Florida for a few years and the tap water was terrible. My theory was based on the idea that all of our drinking water comes from snow melting in the mountains. Growing up in NY and being aware of how much snow…

You’ve got it wrong; baseball was started as a game for adults and kids started copying them. It’s not a game designed for kids, like “catch.”

I did make the dough that’s in the video and it came out great.

You call it surprise, I think it’s confusion. You think that because things have happened in your world and in your network, they’re also happening to everyone else.

Because it sounded like an anomaly. This past weekend I asked probably two dozen people, about 60% native to the NY metropolitan area, 2 were from down south, 2 from Ohio, and the rest were from DR, Jamaica, and Europe. Three of them know someone who was directly involved with gun violence, for one of them is was a…

I grew up in a solid middle class neighborhood, and we’re white, but my Mom was broke most of the time being a single mother to four boys. I live in Queens, a very multicultural part of NY and I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 20 years. I have a relative who works in a prison but no, no one in my (pretty big) family…

Born in Queens, grew up Nassau County, and except for 10 years, I’ve worked in Manhattan. Was at a BBQ yesterday (in Brooklyn) and a group of us spoke about this. There’s not a huge gun culture in NYC or on LI and I’m far from the only person who hasn’t had direct contact with gun violence. The last time I saw a hand…

As a man, I rarely notice these details (jewelry, underarm boob fat??) and I can’t begin to imagine writing in to complain. Sounds to me exactly like the action of many women that I know who focus on a lot of this stuff. Usually, when it comes to women I see on TV and in the movies and will never meet in person, I…

Are you trying to make a connection between Chick-fil-A and what happened here because of your wacky cousin?

Pretty sure the scenario you’re recalling was all staged and there really wasn’t any”embarassment,” just some co-workers playing around. At least that’s what I read after they tricked a bunch of viewers into thinking they “made” the woman cover up because she was wearing evening wear during a morning broadcast.

I think it’s both reasonable and common for a parent of a child to want to learn a few things about the home of a child’s friend that’s being considered as a place for children to get together and play. I’m assuming, by children, they’re not yet 12 years old. By then, most children are capable of making certain…

Wow, you actually “knew” more than one person who is now dead because of a gun, or is it that you just heard about it? I guess it’s possible but it seems unlikely. Do you live in a dangerous area?

I will be trying this recipe out. I got hooked a few months ago on caramel after learning this easy method: put an unopened can of sweetened condensed milk in a big pot of water (to cover) and simmer for three hours. Put the can sideways so it doesn’t rattle (and drive you crazy) and add water when necessary to make…

You go, girl!

I see this a lot whenever someone posts a smartly written article and a recipe. Someone has to immediately come long and say, “No, here’s MY recipe; this is how you should do it.” Is this passive-aggressive behavior? Not sure. I appreciated the author’s article and the video that accompanied it. I would think the best…

I make my own pizza dough all the time and found the article and the video exceptionally helpful. Can’t understand why you thought it necessary to post an alternate recipe. Didn’t need another one; what was the point?