As a parent I'm conflicted now. I make a lot more dosh than my divorced mom ever did so I can afford to buy my daughter the right shoes/jacket/backpack/meaningless shit every other 8-year-old must have. But 'tis better to make her a bitter, introverted husk like her dad via a childhood spent as a sartorial outcast? Or…

Both Harsanyi, and Hughes have interesting definitions of fascism. Totalitarianism and fascism are not synonymous. Two different flavors of bad. Of course they CAN and often do overlap.

Eh, you might be surprised/aroused/disgusted/ambivalent/other about the shenanigans that happen on public transit in Atlanta. It's really not a hypothetical scenario.

Are you saying that 1) My adding to a discussion about how and why we react the sight of people making out is somehow out of line, or; 2) That you have some kind of selective blindness so that couples making out are literally invisible to you, or that; 3) You can indeed see other people making out but their…

I've read your comment twice and am curious whether your sexual interest/romantic interest schism is driven more by the brain or the loins. Is it how you see men and women behaving, or a more instinctive "Best way to pass my genes along" primal thing?

You, sir, have met a remarkable woman.

Eh, I'll respectfully disagree. I like "beauty." Two people who look like Greek gods or goddesses making out I'll enjoy, and two people looking like plague-ridden meth addicts will repel me. I guess in order: two girly goddesses, two gods of opposite sex, two male gods. Then two average looking women I'll just think…

Agreed. One thing Clinton did - pragmatic yes, but idealistic no - was to swing the Democratic party fully into be an acceptable party for big business. All legislation is now purchased, if not literally written by business interests, and the Dems in the 90s knew they were doomed unless they too offered corporate…

One of the tri-state area's finest Ethel Merman/Aerosmith tribute acts. Seriously even when they were young and huge I didn't get it. Clearly it's just me.

Thema Todd. My god, she was the definitive doomed sexy trainwreck: makes Linsey Lohan seen like just a little scamp. A tragic life but a great performer.

My daughter (8 years old) insists we watch Duck Soup a couple times a month. She's okay with Monkey Business and Horsefeathers, but since she was 6 we've been doing variations of the mirror scene at home. Tonight we watched Top Hat and she asked it it was made about the same time as Duck Soup. I said, yes about the…

Thank you, Concrete Donkey. It's largely why I never cared about the convoluted politics and back stories or even anything outside the movies. Even the best of them doesn't hold up very well if you judge by usual movie criteria. They're big splashy space serials with wooden acting and clunky direction, existing in…

As the child of proper prudish Midwesterners, I admire your willingness to have someone smooth your lady bits. I'd feel so self conscious. Now I'll go put on a hair shirt and fast for a while.

May I ask a really obvious question? How the hell does one wax close to the labia majoris and not suffer trauma? Like horrible redness, bruising, even tearing? I've been with very few partners and they were either trimmed (fine) natural (also fine) or shaved (bristles! No cunnilngus for me) so I'm not too savvy on…

That's an interesting way of taking something that once hurt and seizing it so it is now owned by you, and making it a source of pride. Sometimes I think (as has been noted elsewhere here) than kinks are often how we go from being afraid or powerless into owning and even enjoying our fears. That also sounds like a hot…

Bill Murray fans like Bill for the same reason Donald Trump fans like The Donald.They both ignore convention, don't suck media dick, and say what they think.

Agreed on the Catch-22 of making headlines for showing up at people's parties to blow their minds and let them take photos with you. Maybe he's just being generous because let's face it: if Bill Murray shows up at your birthday party you've got a good story to tell for years and thus he's making people happy. But it's…

I'm a lot older and I envy your free-spirited wanton joyous stupidity.

Yeah, I think that was the whole point: MTV/The Industry using women as props and thinking if you make the skirts short enough and the makeup heavy enough it's sexy. I would have liked to have hung out with Robert Palmer. Great voice, great style, clever idea for the video.

The thought of Axl "doing" Ethel Merman just made me throw up a little in my mouth.