What, girls in your junior high couldn't afford breast augmentation?

Wow. That top picture. I forgot the time she went to CPAC dressed as a couch from the 70s.

It's like that season of Mad Men where Don Draper would hire hookers to slap him around while they screwed.

Dan's friend wasn't married (the letter-writer, NOTHARD, was the married one). And you'd have to wonder if her boyfriend understood at the time as well as Dan does now that she was "all about monogamy" since she was giving him permission to do his threesome. You're making a lot of assumptions on a false premise.

I think setting someone up to be punished by you for doing something you both agreed was ok is (or at least, can be) abuse. People generally seem to be giving Dan's friend the benefit of the doubt that she only inadvertently set up her boyfriend to fail, but this reminds me unpleasantly of a scenario I saw play out a…

I heartily agree with the point that the big problem here is failing to recognize dealbreakers. Any relationship is about making decisions, and those decisions foreclose other options. The key is being honest with oneself, and that's a universal problem regardless of gender.

"Also surely if she trusted him, continuing the relationship would have been more of an option."

From Dan's description, however, it doesn't sound as if she was jealous or untrusting. If anything, the gambit she tried sounds like the act of someone who's supremely overconfident: she figured that she'd give him this pass and he'd never use it. For her, it was the best of both worlds: she didn't have to do anything…

Typically, the party who lies is the one who can't be trusted. Dan's friend's problem wasn't that she didn't trust her guy, it's that her guy trusted her and took her at her word. Now, you could say that in that situation, the guy should've suspected that he was being tested and made ultra-super-duper sure that his…

Are you saying that what we need is for Macauley Culkin to move into and booby trap the White House? It's an unorthodox approach to a constitutional crisis, but I'll allow it.

He sleeps in a diaper? That figures.

He sleeps in a diaper? That figures.

As with everything about this president, if you see something weird, take a screenshot. Photographic evidence won't keep him from denying the weird thing happened, but it'll remind you that no, you're not crazy, this guy's just a liar.

I know these are all true things, and things that deserve to be seen in film. However, we don't feel the need to work the Japanese internment and the vile treatment of troops in segregated units into every single film about Americans in World War II. We can argue about how bad those things were compared to things the…

Why are people so negative about Paul Ryan? He doesn't get sexual gratification from kicking women and children into poverty! No, he gets his sexual gratification from imagining the faces of the Koch brothers and Sheldon Addelson when they see the great tax cut he's going to deliver them. If poor children need to be…

Rand's true gift was in convincing large numbers of born mediocrities that they're all Atlas, part of a class of creative elites without whose singular genius the world would crumble. Doesn't matter if you're a trust-fund kid or a guy who probably wouldn't have gone to college if the social safety net hadn't caught…

Yeah, if Ivanka was self-aware enough to get the distinction between anything she's experienced and slavery, the intern who dug up this quote for her would be so fired.

Obviously, having your grandfather amass a great fortune makes you an expert on work.

"But there’s no impact to any of the blows struck; even when a policeman gets a sickle-blade embedded in his skull, we don’t really get that “daaaaamn” moment that action movie fans live for."

Enemy at the Gates was probably one of my most disappointing movies of all time, so I kind of wonder what you liked so much about it. I'd read a few books about the battle of Stalingrad before it came out, and it seemed like we'd finally reached a place that the Cold War was far enough in the rear view mirror where we…