My adult kid is very successful, well before age 30. She is a state school grad with a liberal arts degree in a very major city that is not New York.

All of Gawker media worships the UK. Truly, I am shocked that you think Jez is anti-UK. It is absolutely required to love all things British completely and uncritically at all Gawker sites.

How would "Lasonia" be an "ignorant" name? It doesn't seem weird or stupid to me. White people come up with much crazier names—like Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backwards).

If she is an MD, it's proper. Absolutely no one who isn't pretentious wants to be addressed as "Dr." at the university where I teach. It's professor for almost all circumstances. People with confidence don't want to be confused with people in another profession.

Oh, I don't think he's especially talented. His beauty transcends talent.
But upon reflection, nothing could get me through The Matrixes again.
And beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. I have a hard wired preference for tall dark and handsome.
Idris, take me away!

The beauty of Keanu in the Bill and Teds and The Replacements makes sitting through all the boring ones worth it. He is just so handsome.

Poor Victorians. They get blamed for everything. Were they repressed? Yes and no. Women began to find their voices during that long era. Horribly restrictive clothing had been in and out of vogue for women for centuries before the Victorians came along, so why do they get the blame?
Oh, and sciences advanced like crazy…

What about the ladiez who turned 50 this year, ladies? Here are just a few: Jennifer Beals, Tori Amos, Ming-Na, Helen Slater.

How do you support the theory that good looking people are more likely to have daughters? Also, you must not live in a Red State. I do, and can assure you there are many ugly conservatives. Many, many physically ugly conservatives.
And what about the fact that staying married builds wealth, so take a look at this:
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You're right about all of that, and on top of what you say, there's this:
http://www.npr.org/templates/stor…

I truly believe that drinking to the pint of black out, even once, is just plain wrong, male or female.
But I don't think anyone, male or female, has an inalienable right to get massively drunk in public places. It's ugly and ill mannered for both men and women.
When my friends and I wanted to get hammered, we'd gather…

The drinking this really confuses me. My mother always warned me to never, ever walk away from a drink at a party. We told our daughter the same thing. We also told her not to get shit faced drunk because bad things happen to women and men when they get stinking drunk. Rape is not the only potentially horrible outcome…

Where is your evidence the judge was paid off? That's a serious charge to make, even anonymously. The judge's ruling was absolutely terrible, but that doesn't make him a crook.

I can't help it if people use terms they neither know nor understand.
And, no, I can't hear myself. This is writing, and I am not reading it out loud.
Also, since there are many diverse opinions here, I'm damn well entitled to mine.
Finally, my sitter had a good education, but saw herself as a caregiver, not an ersatz…

Thank you a thousand times for this. I wash my hands every single time I use the toilet. When women leave the restroom after rinsing or without washing, I know I have just been in the presence of a dirty person.
For those who blather about sterile urine, please understand that bathrooms are filled with dirty surfaces.…

Great idea! :)

Read your history. It's not pretentious to note that the newly rich have no idea about how to behave. It's just the way they are.
Haughty? Sure. I can be haughty. I've earned it.

I truly cannot understand your comment.

Thank you for this. The pretentious use of "nanny" by every person who hires a sitter is pathetic and insecure. Nannies are trained specialists!
The use of it is part of a creeping insecurity I see in nouveau riche Americans who have no sense of who they are. But I also see it in people of all other classes.
Of course,…

I get what you are saying. But anti-Catholicism is alive and well in the US, and well predates the abuse scandal (which is the reason why I won't go back to the church, plus the birth control issues).
But the Catholic church was essentially the only form of Christianity for well over 1,000 years for many people, as…