Are you from Massachusetts? I was a young adult up there in 1988 and once the “tank video” hit I knew he’d lose.

I would dismiss this comment but I think it’s a teachable moment.

Touché. It’s not what I meant, but I think some readers will understand my eye-rolling at this woman.

There have been lots of posts and literally thousands of comments about this woman but let me weigh in where my comment might be read.

I can’t thank you enough for this. I didn’t realize they made a film out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I read the book years ago. I went to the movie’s IMDB page. Everyone was in it! How did it not do better at the box office?

Is that a Hunter S. Thompson quote?

I used to go to Canada quite a bit (Montreal) in a car that we owned, US plates, and it used to astonish me that the Canadians would just kind of wave you through, smile, maybe a little chit chat, and then on the return the US border people treated you like you were one of the doomed passengers on The Ship of Fools.…

They’ve had so many snow days up in MA the schools are open until June 24th this year. I think the NYC schools go so late because they celebrate so many religious holidays, and I think I read they want to add two or three more. Unfortunately for working parents workplaces don’t celebrate all these holidays.

Re: Frozen. The little girl upstairs from me played “Let It Go” for an entire week straight, during a school break. The nanny let her and probably sang along. I work from home.

Maybe he had pancakes for breakfast, followed up by a heapin’ helpin’ of port wine cheese, and attributed his vomiting to the pancakes? Either that or he was possessed by Satan, like in The Exorcist.

Not just any comestible but port wine cheese. That is the best part.

This is going to get lost but maybe you’ll read it.

It actually takes quite a bit of courage to “adopt domestically” because the birth mother is usually going to be around somewhere in the country and can reassert parental priveleges. Not so much when the kid was shipped off to an orphanage in Kiev or Shanghai.

At least he didn’t describe his (adopted) children as “feral.”

Oh no, I assure you I’ve seen this video countless times. I love the song, because I am a middle-aged white man, and I love Aretha Franklin, so for me this was fantastic.

Thank you. Howard admits white students. Very few, but you don’t have to do a reverse “Imitation of Life” and pass for Black to get in. I went to school in Washington and for a few weeks thought I’d like to learn Haitian Creole (Kreyol.) They would have taken me under a DC-wide consortium arrangement. I make Casper…

If they’re on Fifth Avenue St. Patrick’s Cathedral can’t be that far away. I’m sure someone there would be willing to do an exorcism on the sly.

Is their old apartment still available?

Maybe it’s because you (and I) lived through the godless 1970s that we’re so laissez-faire about houseguests actually acting like human beings with sexual urges. I often have a couple visit me who I like quite a lot but they’re so physically unattractive to me that my genitals retract if I see them in anything less…

You’re right. It’s not like I haven’t been staring at this for 15 minutes or anything.