... what did I say about employees? If it isn't about dressing appropriately to the solemnity of the court, then what is it about? By this standard, someone in a t-shirt is more appropriately dressed for court than this reporter, which is deeply goofy.

I've been in plenty of courtrooms and that has not been my experience for spectators in the gallery. Not even the Supreme Court!

THE SHOULDER BONE'S CONNECTED TO THE SIN BONE

The chief difference being that there is virtually no sleeveless men's business attire sold, whereas there is plenty of women's. So it's a bit like saying "requiring skirts to be a certain length applies equally to men and women." The letter of equality, yes. The spirit, no.

It's still sexist because a lot of women's professional attire is designed to be sleeveless...

Wearing a sleeveless top AND riding in cars with boys.

Preach! I'm in my glories right now teaching Moby Dick to my sophomores (yes, I'm *that* teacher) but I've let my kids talk me into reading the Divergent trilogy and am thoroughly enjoying the brain vacation. Fiction = escapism. Who am I to judge your escape from the real world?

I have a feeling Catcher in the Rye might be marketed as YA literature if it were being published in 2014 anyway. Maybe the same with Lord of the Flies. These categorizations seem driven more by the publishers' marketing decisions than with the actual content in a lot of cases.

I just read Graham's piece and it really pissed me off. This quote from Gillian Flynn is apt here: "I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don't really like that kind of book.' It's akin to marking yourself as proudly poorly read."

I read crap fiction and cheesy fanfiction on my Kindle or phone and just tell everyone I'm rereading a Jane Austen novel if I'm too embarrassed to be honest when they ask.

I love this. I have a degree in literature (woohoo homelessness), and I spent about half my life reading literature "classics," some of which I greatly enjoyed (Shakespearean tragedies/comedies, Handmaid's Tale, and Catcher in the Rye, to name a few), and some of which I loathed (the last third of Huck Finn, along…

I am so sick of people applying high and low culture labels to the creative arts. Especially since they rarely, if ever, have anything meaningful to back up the claim that one form is somehow better or more worthy than another. Can there be any real point to this posturing besides smug self-satisfaction?

People like this woman are almost borderline evil. They rend your soul to pieces with such harmless little phrases like "be reasonable", "redefine your expectations" and "act your age". It's these small phrases that always do the most damage. Tiny little cuts given by small minds to wear us down.

'Twas ever thus. Very Serious Critics have sneered at readers of SF, fantasy, mysteries, westerns, and comics for decades. Sorry I'd rather read Jim Thompson than slog through Mill on the Floss (a true crime against literature). I've had my fill of deadly dull Adult Serious Fiction.

So many contemporary novels for adults don't have any more depth and insight than young adult literature. They have more swear words and explicit sex but they're bogged down by pretension and self-importance. (Yeah, I'm talking about you, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, you piece of shit.)

I used to work with this one guy with one leg. (He was one of the higher-functioning clients at a day program for people with developmental disabilities.) When we went to the grocery store he would always ask for the motorized scooters so he could back them into me repeatedly while laughing his ass off. Then he would…

That's a problem with ALL studies, including well-designed studies.

You're saying that limited resources means we limit the scope of studies?