Well, it did used to apply to many of those other languages—maybe not French—we have just moved on to new prejudices.

Because they were embarrassed to be speaking languages other than English—at least my grandparents were. They came over in the 1930s from Italy and, while they spoke Italian with my mother, they would never speak it to us. My grandfather would not speak in public at all because he was so ashamed of his accent.

I agree absolutely. And what if management HAD published a more detailed account? I can’t imagine that those same commenters would be saying—oh, all right then.

Wilbon does NOT suck. Take it back.

That’s not the only thing he might do with them.

Why won’t you just sit still and let me persecute you the way my God intended?

Honey, after “President Donald Trump,” it is pretty much ALL out there.

Go back to the 1800s and read Feuerbach’s Essence of Christianity. That people do no require religion in order to behave morally is an old and valuable concept.

As Sheesh says above, these things are a feature, not a bug. To get rid of them, you would have to dismantle evangelical Christianity—and that ain’t happening.

Wait, Giuliani is divorced AGAIN?

Mr. Bug is an old-school architect so there are ALWAYS pencils around but I never write with them. I got him a set of Blackwing Palominos a few years ago, at a friend’s suggestion, and he has never looked back. Our house is littered with pages of tracing paper that rustle constantly and pencils in various states of…

My sister-in-law is part of the medical faculty at ETSU and she was the first person I ever saw use super glue like this—she glued my greyhound’s ear which was bleeding like stank after he scratched it a bit too hard. Worked like a charm.

I’ve been using my Kaweeko for about 5 years now and it looks just the same as the day I got it. Only fountain pen I have ever used that never clogs or sticks.

The Kaweeko Sport (a fountain pen), with a medium nib (purchased separately) and blue ink.

that works if you survive. If, like my sister, you don’t, all this shit don’t mean nothing. Come back when you have changed your 46 yr old sister’s diapers and explained to her 3 and 5 yr old kids that mom isn’t going to get better.

No love for Tiffany Aching and Horace, the man-eating cheese?

I am pretty sure there’s no earning potential to damage, frankly.

Mr. Bug is an architect and his last firm specialized in restaurants. For a while, open kitchens in restaurants were a thing (talk about bad ideas). I remember going to the soft opening of one and Mr. Bug just sitting there, starting intently at the kitchen, saying under his breath—did you want to see that? Did you…

I am a white person who married into a family of brown-liquor drinkers (seriously, no one drinks like Midwestern Catholics do) and one of my fondest memories is watching my beloved mother-in-law sipping her Jack Daniels through a straw from one of those teeny tiny airline bottles. Her grip was so bad she couldn’t hold…

Don’t get it anywhere near an open flame.