Good for these high school students and the supporting faculty and parents. I went to an undergraduate program at an American university where they couldn't get it together to have the Chik-Fil-A kicked out of the student dining area. Moral rightness aside, the dining commons was in part intended to provide food…

European Spanish, Latin American continental Spanish, Mezzo-American Spanish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban Spanish? Latin cultures are kind of non-monolithic about sexual habits and mores, so it'd be helpful to know where the person is from. As a German from a Catholic region, generally, some of us take intercourse a…

There's no need to use any type of profanity in responding to me. My comments to you were completely polite, impersonal, avoidant of ad hominem attacks, and moreover they are correcting an error of fact. Virtually all of the comments on the story mention the law and 80 percent of them give citations for other stories…

It wouldn't be a "Catholicism-tinged law" from 1696. The Puritans were a Protestant sect. Irish immigrants did not come to New England until much much later.

I actually also love William Gaddis, and I have read A Frolic of His Own... you know, I try to describe his humor (in also recommending) as being a bit like H.H. Munro's... But (big literary sigh) sometimes people don't know who that is either! This comment really cheered me, thank you!

I see now that the comment is actually a lot more nuanced than the way I first read it...I replied to the OP again. But thank you for the gracious interpretation; I mean that.

I think people are right there with you on that. Employees who behave poorly (and of course are caught and publicly identified) reflect poorly on the employing entity, and it's up to the employer. We can see the weird double standard here for women deployed even when women are "caught" doing something perfectly legal,…

I just turned 50 and I have tramp-stamp length wavy dark brown hair. I'm one of those weird relatively small people who can still wear clothes from high school, so maybe it doesn't look "inappropriate" on me, but... seriously, I do not feel or act "matronly."

The element of self-loathing he brings to the character actually does not in any way help. A real waste of talent of so many of the good character actors who are given repulsive personalities to portray...

I know. I wasn't complaining to you or about you. The error is the wine company's. I hope the wine is good though.

A trove of information in your commentary as always. However Leonardo, who kept extensive journals and who was well documented in his time, is not the originator of this quote. Is was attributed falsely to Leonardo by William Gaddis in 1955. Deductively, one could see that Leonardo was not into simplification.

Just curious as to why you think posting "Ray Rice did it." would be controversial, since there is a video of him doing it....? Football and professional sports in general are disgusting, violent, and a waste of time and money - no one's going to disagree with that, for sure!

I'm sorry for all of that, that's horrible. But don't watch Californication! I can't think of a more negative depiction of women and relationships.

Wow, Saul Rubinek reference! I still get chills over the episode of STtNG he was in...

I hear that. I'm in a basic-needs-funded research period this year for the first time in my academic career (besides working I mean), but even now... when I was walking home tonight I stopped by a friend's book launch party, and TBH, part of the reason was so I could fill up on snacks and drinks and use the money I'd…

Lara Vaughan, the school's master teacher, said the four full pumpkins were just about to turn orange.

Well, I always liked D'Arcy.

Well, I don't know...I make a lot of stuff with pumpkins, like substantial stuff, soup and stew (not pie) and even tummy-soothing treats for dogs - pureed pumpkin was all one of my very very elderly greyhounds liked to eat toward the end of her long life. I mean you could keep the seeds and roast them and save some to…

I know people complain when someone expresses a far-fetched contrarian viewpoint on Jezebel posts, but I was thinking about the subject of food theft in relation to the really annoying weirdos who steal your lunch, or sometimes rifle through your lunch and take only the Nigella Nainamo bar, at school or the office ...…

Yes, agreed. I'm also born in Munich, so his career and biography holds great interest for me. However, I get annoyed with Herzog the person for constantly trashing the work of Fassbinder, whose truncated oeuvre is really right up there...I think I might prefer it.