I posted this on another GMG site, but I’ll add it to this larger thread, because where. Am it’s not an us vs. them thing:

I just read a long and thoughtful letter from our principal congratulating the students on their organizing and doing the walkout, commenting both their doing the right thing and representing it well, supporting them, and basically saying seven ways to Sunday how awesome they are and how proud the school is of them.

“Fancy dress” = costume

I cringe recalling middle school as well. My current 8th grade daughter, though - and the vast majority of her close friends - is not suffering the same. She’s got a group of 7-8 with relatively little friction (for middle-school girls), and they’re beautiful and smart and upbeat and supportive of one another. Some…

That’s an awesome text from your mom. My daughter would never accept that from me nor understand what seemed about perfectly obvious there - one typo and I get back a “What????”

Thank you for this! I LOVE Tracy Thorn, and Everything But the Girl. She/they were absolutely a soundtrack for a certain moment in my life (earliest years in NYC, fresh out of grad school and in love with the City), and I’m taken back there everytime I hear her sing. It’s actually painful sometimes to listen now, becau…

Hi, there! I’m wearing my scarlet grey “A” (or should it be a C in grey for grey commenter?) over here, for always and ever, though once upon a time I was a starred Gawker persona....  

Those of us consigned to the greys for who-knows-why will always appreciate your thoughts & efforts!

DG, others have said and I may have, too, but I love that you bring that voice. Not that I’m unfamiliar with it, but for those of us who have some close-up and extremely negative experiences with addicts who are not nearly as honest with themselves as you are, it is a good reminder never to paint with a broad brush.…

Thanks for this. I’ve gone through it as well and basically rid none of the things you correctly suggest, despite having a strong track record and reputation and many places I would be in demand. And I think the reason I didn’t have hope of handling it well was your very first point - I didn’t do that, and I think it…

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And yet a hefty portion of the stuff they run that is actually big stuff shows up shortly on every other site out there, reputable and gossip. They tend to make much ado about nothings and speculate for stupid stories - but the bigger things usually get it mostly right. At least in the relativistic world that us…

I can’t answer on the crime but just saying on the spirit if the purge discussion, I re-watched it last night. Got 2 and 3 teed up to go, but lame me fell asleep early - normally I’m good to start movies at 1 am but not last night 😠

Others have said it but I’ll add my concurrence - forget him, forget the money. I say this from experience . A lot of it, and none of it good (I’m mid-40s and dating since my mid-30s post-divorce). Exes of mine (not including father of my kids, whose debts to me double the overall total) owe me in the mid-5 figures.…

Re dance - you are not aware of this?

Thanks for this summary - I couldn’t remember if I’d seen the third one or not, and I haven’t, so I think I will!

Oh, God, I was skimming and thought when you wrong “Egan,” you meant Jennifer Egan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (whom I’ve met and knew her husband, who is an innovative theater director...) ... I feel much better now!

I listened to a solid half-hour of one of his interviews. People interpreted him as either being outrageously defiant or on heavy drugs. To, all I heard was one solid whine: “why should I have to spend 80 hours of my time to do this? He raised no larger points; it was basically a bad Woody Allen kvetch impression.…

So the 12 year olds should be...having sex instead?

But charging adults extra money to access porn does not restrict those adults’ children from anything. It’s a ineffective idea, in addition to the general paternalism.