Thanks for these thoughts. The Allman Brothers were not just a simple southern rock band, as the original obit suggests, they were much more - thanks in large part to the tight and creative percussion. It's real nice to hear what a solid guy Butch Trucks was too.

Disagree with Sukaluski. Agree with Dan on this one. It's a common, normal "imperfection" for people to enjoy attention from other people who they find attractive. If more people could accept this reality and be mature enough to acknowledge and affirm chemistry without assuming that some sex act must be the outcome,…

That is definitely true wise cookie. There are positive feedbacks on both sides and people tend to be more comfortable that way.

A non-helpful thing that liberals do: aggregate. It is satisfying and affirming but makes the "red vs. blue" problem worse.

that's right!

Yeah thank you and you probably speak for most guys! It's always so nice when someone is respectful. I'm just bitter b/c I naively thought would rings would protect me somehow, but they just filter for super-jerks.

It is definitely not reliably effective, even after actually getting engaged, married, and wearing an F-n set of rings. The worst ones take it as a challenge and up their "game". You just have to find a way to tell them to go fuck themselves.

Yuk. These are things that just did not sink in for me, probably since it was high school when I read the book (and not for a class, just on my own and repeatedly because I enjoyed it) - so I was pretty unaware/sheltered from racism in general and had no forum that pointed it out for me (I am old - no internet in…

It is interesting to realize that so many smart people see this book/movie as glorifying the antebellum south. I always read it as more of a send-up, since the stubborn arrogant southerners were the losers, and the winner among them, Scarlett, was the one who managed to let go of/destroy/repurpose previously held…