According to the Bible (1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Peter 2:3), no one should wear jewelry.

"When you start wearing Eileen Fisher, you might as well say, 'I give up.'"

I guess these surveys have some value, but unless a sizeable portion of the participants have tried several of the products in contention, don't the results say more about marketing than about quality? I use X, so X is best.

I guess these surveys have some value, but unless a sizeable portion of the participants have tried several of the…

If there's anything I hate, it's people who have sick mothers. Ugh.

Re: tethering

All that is good, except that it shouldn't be the NFL that's telling him that.

These matters should be dealt with through the criminal-justice system.

Sitting on a heated seat always reminds me of sitting in a recently filled diaper. I haven't worn a diaper in nearly 50 years, but it's been that long since I've felt something soft and warm under my butt. (Hard and warm? That's a different matter.)

I want one.

Boy Scout camp when I was 14. Someone told me someone else had photographed me during "private time" in my tent. This was in the days of 126 film cartridges. I waited until the camera in question was left unattended, pulled out the cartridge, chopped it two with a hatchet, and put it back in the camera. Later, the kid…

I watched the 2005 Pride and Prejudice last weekend, and was reminded of this Douthat column. Aside from the references to urbanites and television, the following pretty much describes Pride and Prejudice:

Would the graphic have been considered outrageous if the subject had been female?

My siblings and I were beaten with belts, wooden spoons, spatulas, and (worst of all) the handle end of wire-handled flyswatters. I don't know whether we "turned out okay," but that's not really relevant. People live through all kinds of terrible things and "turn out okay." My parents believed in corporal punishment…

>Safeguard even inconsequential information about yourself.

I hate football, but he's one of my heroes.

Why not permit posting from existing commenters, but not permitting new commenters to post until approved? If an existing commenter posts a qualifying image, that commenter's account could be deleted. If he or she creates a new account, posts from that account would require approval. If the issue is the ease with…

Don't permit burners to post images?