Tsuro is not that great either, actually. (I mean, if you are going to be that hard on Scrabble you have raised the bar to a certain level.) It’s a nice “light” game that you play once in a while.

Well, if you go all the way back “jass” or “jazz” had lots of sexual connotations. Some people in the teens insisted it was a filthy word, and it seems to have something to do with the association of jazz with the Storyville brothels.

“...considering how family-friendly Bill Cosby’s work was.”

Yeah, that’s why this article’s particular argument doesn’t make much sense. If ESPN ignored the scandal or issued some non-apology like “what Hill does on her own time is her own business” how exactly would that have kept this “scandal” out of the White House briefing room? The same idiots would still be flogging…

Heh, yeah I have a family member who has been separated that long but will not divorce for religious reasons. Because that is the arrangement God prefers, apparently.

You misread me in two ways.

“Democrats continually mock these single-issue voters...”

“What a fucking dick move”

You might as well stay consistent, though I could live without the police chief’s comments about “young children” making “mistakes.” He should know that he lives in a country where kids get tried as adults pretty frequently, and that these particular kids are benefiting from their particular circumstances (color of…

What? As the great grand-daughter of Warren G. Harding I’d say she’s a pretty noteworthy footnote in history. It’s the whole reason she was not prosecuted.

The funny thing is that the reason I hate figure skating is that it isn’t good dance, either. Graceless twerps who jump a lot (like Tara Lipinski) could beat someone who actually looks good on the ice.

I was house-sitting for my music teacher that year, and a big manilla envelope arrived in the mail. It must not have been sealed because I peeked inside and it was an 8x10 of Tonya with her skate up on the judges’ table, crying.

Yeah, I put it back into rotation after making that post. Musically it is a beautiful track, despite the bit of self-pity in the lyrics.

Who would have thought that Hurricane Irma would dredge up parts of Blogtown USA.

It really isn’t that complicated. It reminds me of Mike Doughty’s little rap about New York:

Speaking of which, why not Detroit?

Yeah, just having been downtown and having dealt with the confusion, chaos, and horror still hurts.

Ginia Bellafante railed against the character, calling her ditzy and “in charge of nothing, least of all her emotional life.”

“Doesn’t her not knowing the difference between these magazines kind of show she’s not into social climbing?”

“I just got cable for the first time in 25 years, and I was suprised to see that Fieri’s show is actually watchable about half the time.”