I agree with you. And baseball is a great analogy. I assume you are male like I am. Men largely pitch and women largely catch. Its also like dancing where men lead and women follow. If you don’t like that ideal then talk to the young dancers on “Dancing with the Stars” and see if even these young, mostly liberal,…

Only 26 replies so far. Must be because it is the weekend. Well I do feel nostalgic about Playboy’s change and that I suppose is no surprise since I am male. But it was pretty much a rite of passage for kids raised in the 70’s and 80’s and earlier to either have a classmate or friend or uncle show them a copy of…

So true and exactly what I was thinking. All three tracks have catchy, pulsing synths and rhythms. I like the sorry one especially because it is so 80’s. But Justin sings everything in the same flat way. Put a really distinctive and engaging singer in any of these tracks and THEN the might become timeless. Right now…

As someone who lived in the early 80’s, I love this!!!

I enjoyed the article. JC Penney was too swanky for my family. We shopped out of the Montgomery Wards and Sears catalogs mostly. I was 10 then and remember seeing most of these clothes on somebody or another. Although it is easy to mock these things, I notice how fashion sneaks up on people and in just three years,…

Loved it. His impersonation of your average tv mom in a commercial was spot on!

... some of my friends are stuck on the fact that at one point, I expressed an interest in the possibility of not having kids at all. For them, that was it — my preference was asserted and any deviance from it was a betrayal of who I really am. They don’t get that who I really am is someone who could live any number…

I have kids, but I hear you. I don’t know if I truly thought it out either. I agree with you that I think so many people really just want a puppy but they end up having kids. But unlike a puppy, kids are individuals from birth and may grow up troubled or Republican or any number of other ways that are different from…

You are a thoughtful writer. I enjoyed your responses as much as the article by Tracy. I have been married now 24 years to the same woman and we have changed and my children have changed and I have changed jobs many times. But we live in the same house and sleep in the same bed that we did when we married. So some…

If you watch the original pilot episode for Fantasy Island, it had some dark undertones that were ahead of their time for network tv. Ricardo Montalban exuded just a hint of menace as he gave people what they wanted whether it was good for them or not. The first season kept a little of that menace but very toned down.…

I for one am glad that a lot has been written lately about how loathsome John was. The millennials have bought into a lot of the boomer’s hype about the Beatles. I am about fed up with them.

cI agree with you. I said that to my older kids when my father passed away a few months ago. I tell his story now based on what I know. He is no longer around to tell it. If I say to my kids that he was raised as what is considered a racist now then that is what they will know about him. He wouldn’t likely accept that…

That is interesting to me. I have never thought about that perspective. I have no interest in police procedurals and have always wondered why older people like my mom love them and why it is often women who watch them. I personally am on the fence about cops. They do protect but at the cost of our freedom. They also…

I can’t stand SVU either. I would be curious how many males actually watch that show. I bet that very few do. It must be like you said, a show for women who feel some catharsis watching other women helping women victims. And there is obviously a large number of viewers out there because it has been on it seems…

I would agree with that. I grew up in a tiny, rural town and any event at all was a big deal. And from what I can tell from FB, it still is a big deal in that town and others like it. Regular school dances probably aren’t because they never were, but Homecoming and Prom still are. I moved to a Big City and my children…

You think you are the old guy? Class of 1985 here and the closest we guys got to girls was during Journey songs slow dancing. I am reading many of the comments of these young women, feminists all, talking about young guys grinding their cocks up against them and how these girls ground their young asses and genital…

“And there’s no need to reframe it as the best choice, when really it was just your best choice. “

Precisely. Fear always leads to bad choices.

Well that is different. In those cases it is a form of flashing which is illegal.

I know. Every time they describe a killer as isolated and keeping to themselves it irks me a bit because most of us are not killers. Being alone or a loner doesn’t kill people, being crazy and a killer, kills people.