While I wouldn’t spend that kind of money on a dress, it’s really immaterial. A wedding is an experience just as many other things are experiences which you’d likely find valuable. Would you gasp that someone would spend hundreds or thousands on a hot air balloon ride AND pay for the overpriced champagne? What about…

As someone who spent a relatively conservative amount on an upscale but reusable non-white-wedding dress and opted for a very small wedding so as to afford a honeymoon abroad: people are allowed to do what they want. We preferred to spend our money on seeing four thousand year old buildings, but other people would…

Right. If they were taking orders for iPads and not delivering then no one would question it. But it’s something that is important to women, so it’s stupid and everyone has to chime in to decide what these women’s priorities should be.

How expensive can some of these dresses be? If you’re out a few hundred bucks and some time, that sucks but it’s not a disaster.

Uhh thousands? Plus it takes up to months to get a wedding dress in. These brides are likely now going to have to buy off the rack which depending on their size, could be near impossible. They may not have much of a choice.

I love everything about this story. What good kids.

I don’t know. There’s something more intimate and immediate about voice-to-voice interaction, but I’m not sure the responses would have been as interesting or thoughtful. Most of us aren’t as eloquent in-the-moment as we are when we’ve got a chance to compose our thoughts. For example, when she asked him if he had any…

This made me happy to read. I think many people have that one experience they wish they could get closure on, good on you for making it happen.

Note that when Trump says ‘seven years of suffering’, the suffering he’s referring to is that of the wealthy who, as a result of Obamacare, made slightly less than all of the money while sick people got the care they needed. When it is repealed, rich people can finally stop suffering and go back to making almost all…

I miss seeing the Obamas.

It’s becoming worse than Idiocracy. On another article, someone pointed out that Camacho wanted what was best for the people but wasn’t smart enough to accomplish that. Trump wants what’s best for Trump and nobody else.

Honestly, even with all the sexism and racism and xenophobia, this was one of the breaking moments for me, too. Like... I knew there were plenty of sexists in this country. I knew there were plenty of racists (to be honest, I had no idea how fucking many, but I knew there were lots). I obviously lived through 9/11 so…

The day after the election I called my Trump voting parents sobbing, and I asked about this. I have Cerebral Palsy and it felt like they didn’t give a shit about me. My mom just repeated Benghazi over and over.

As long as I live I will regret growing up around people who made me understand that this was the day he won it all.

remember when America had classy leaders? oy vey.

Fraternities and sororities are largely based on exclusion. As a sorority reject, I’m trying to define my opinion on more than just my own personal experiences, but there you have it. The “College House” system, on the other hand, is awesome. Like Rice University here in Houston, first year students are randomly…

Amazing piece, Michael. To answer your question, why doesn’t America know...it does. The problem is that we have a notion in this country that accepting and acknowledging one’s faults and sins strips one of their moral authority. On the macro level, it’s American Exceptionalism. On the micro level, it’s a…

This club has everything....

I don’t particularly like children, but part of what is so exhausting about interacting with them is the “DON’T WAKE THE MAMA BEAR!!!!” attitude of this type of parent. The best parents are chill, know their kids are wild hellions, and try to put some space between the kids and other people going about their days. The…

From baby buttholes to tofurkey sausages, this whole article made me vaguely nauseated.