This is the good news i’ve been looking for! 

Violent criminals need to locked up but treated with compassion because they didn’t create the minds they were born with. But even if you believe that there is a self that exists prior to consciousness, you cannot believe that retributive justice rather than restorative justice will necessarily leaf to a morally and…

I still love Nine Stories. I often think of Teddy, with his big head and slender neck and Esmé and Seymour Glass, his beach vacation gone wrong.

A Fine Day For Bananafish is still breathtaking to me.

Oh, it was.

If you realize that what you did was wrong back then, why are you using your Infinite Wisdom to defend this guy’s actions? Be like Tool of the Matriarchy: admit you were wrong then, admit he was wrong, and demand that everyone do better. We don’t need to give people Free Passes for being a Racist Shithead Teen. You…

Seriously, the only thing I literally want to read from Salinger. More Glass stories, no Holden shit, and whatever Mailerian male libido bullshit he no doubt wrote in the ‘70s and ‘80s can fuck right the hell off.

He’s successful, funny, and attractive. How complicated is it?

It is. This is a great example of how word choice matters. “Homeless person” defines the person, much as “left-handed” or “Greek” does. “Experiencing homelessness” defines what the person is going through.

yeah, i didn’t get the connection between the wall & valentine’s day, either. i guess his mother’s day cookies will say “global warming-nope” & his christmas cookies will say “we hate abortions.”

This is a tough one for me. I don’t think I’ve even shared the full story with my husband.

I had just given birth to my second baby. She burst out of me so fast, my doctor didn’t even make it to the hospital in time, instead he ran into the delivery room, where I was already holding my daughter in my arms. He said, “fuck me!” and I said, “oh no, Doctor, fuck ME!” because there was no time for anesthesia and…

Not an OTT Super bowl party. Just want to let anyone in NYC or LA know that there will be in each city a Super Bowl viewing party that’s also doing a bit of good works.

So, I think I’ve mentioned my nutty Trumpist in-laws around here more than once. One of the family traditions is getting together for the Super Bowl. This side of the family is very religious, and at the time, Mrs. Ghost’s cousin was a pious, wait-until-marriage virgin. She was also a rather smoking hot redhead.…

So I’m 18 and it’s the first time the Giants are in the Super Bowl in my remembered lifetime (I was 1 in 1991), and everyone I know is ecstatic. I’m born and raised in NYC (Manhattan), and almost everyone I know is a Giants fan. My friend’s parents are hosting a party for their friends, but she invites about six of us…

Most chaotic was when I was 8. Leaving a Super Bowl party with my dad and 4-year-old sister when my dad hops the curb in his pickup, careens off a telephone pole and into a fire hydrant. This was the ‘80s, so none of us were wearing seat belts, but luckily we didn’t hit the pole head-on and were only going 25-30 MPH,…

We got like 4 channels when I was studying abroad and one of them, miraculously, was going to screen the SuperBowl. But since the UK is 5 or 6 hours ahead of the US, this meant that we were tuning in at 1 a.m. The video was silent (no screaming fans, no music, very eerie) except for two British sports announcers who…

Whoooooo boy. SO: I used to live in a really big apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan- huge living room, great big TV, all that jazz, so my friends and I would host a Super Bowl party at our place. My friend Tyrese and his girlfriend always came, and she made these homemade wings and homemade bacon-blue…

Please don’t.  My 3 year old would definitely say the big kid menu and then I’m stuck buying her foie gras.

Kids usually tip terribly.  Don’t serve them anything.