That's what you said about Gondor, and look what happened to poor Theoden.

When I was a teenager/in my early 20s my mom wasn't especially present. I mean, she was there physically but we had (and have) a strained relationship. In that absence, some friends mothers took up pieces of that role I was missing. They felt like "moms" then, but now, as we've aged and I have a family of my own…

I agree. The older women in my profession have been (for the most part) inspiring and fierce advocates, and kind mentors, and I try to have the same relationship with my younger or less experienced colleagues. There are always exceptions, of course, but female attorneys, especially those in their 60s and up, are…

The generational divide is a difficult one. There's a natural antagonism to many of our relationships with older women: maybe they're stand-ins for our mothers, our grandmothers, our bosses, our teachers. It's hard to meet on equal footing.

From the day I was born until the day she died my grandmother was 100% my best friend. She was and is my role model. It's not like I obsess tabout getting old I just accept it. She said I kept her feeling young and I told her that she made me feel like getting old wasn't at all the worst thing that could happen to me.

It didn't in Florida. It was bounced immediately by the first court that heard it.

It's surprising too, since it obviously came from higher management, and you'd think that someone with that sort of salary and decision making power would be more insightful.

When I worked at kmart we had quotas of how many people we had to get to sign up for rewards programs (which of course every costumer who wanted to be part of the rewards program had already joined) and for a while we just signed our selves up under the names of celebrities but then they changed the system so we…

And what about mostly all-white communities in the American South?

I'm not having an argument or a conversation. I made a pretty straightforward two-post critique of your lacking ability to use charts to prove a point. Do you normally speak in a series of non sequiturs? I seem to recall your normal comment quality to be a little less wanting.

Incidentally, if what you're trying to demonstrate is that the South is more racist, and attempting to do so by conflating the data in those three graphs, I would suggest that you find a less ass-backwards way to do it. Like, for example, a listing of hate crime statistics by state. The actual data may not support…

"What kind of milk in your latte?"

To be fair, it is still possible to get simple, mostly-coffee, no-sugar drinks at Starbucks, if you can find them on the menu. Their actual coffee is still shit, though.

"Can I get a caffe' latte, please?"

"When Rosa Parks said she didn't give up her bus seat because she was tired, she meant that she was tired of being treated like a second-class citizen, not that she was physically exhausted. This is clear in the full context of her statement. The idea that she was just a quiet lady…

You know they serve brewed coffee, right?

Unsweetened green tea lemonade.

Proving again that CEOs are completely out of touch with the real world.

Part of what I love about fine art is that its definition, at least in the last century, has been tested and the boundaries have been pushed do an amazing degree re: the question, "What Is Art." That's great! And it's also great that art is subjective, and what is pleasing to me is not pleasing to everyone. That…

I'll chime in on the no-fair side of the question — who is going to respond "Well this looks like a piece of crap from the mall" when asked about a piece of art even if it does.

When it comes to the visual arts and poetry I only know what I like and make no other claims. I have no earthly idea about how critics parse out what is good from crap. Is some cases it seems easy - like if someone is able to achieve photographic realism by painting with a raccoon tail and rocks they handcrushed into…