Their tiny dick-coward mentalities require them to strike first and paint the actual selfless person into a corner. JFK, GHWB and McCain were not perfect men, but their heroic acts during wartime should burnish their reputations forever. May Trump be rejected by Satan when he gets to Hell.

Exactly. If we are to accept The Atlantic’s culpability it begs the question: (i) at what age may a person consent to a contract or a working engagement? Is 22 now too young to say - well, over 18, and a working model, but “yes” really doesn’t mean yes. (ii) When can trans people be deemed to have been sufficiently…

Tips from an NC childhood: A corollary to filling the tub is to have one or more buckets handy. To flush a toilet, you need a way to get large quantities of water into the tank or bowl.

May not still be the case, but the guy who owns a Magna Carta was driving a pretty old Mercedes wagon. His was never the flashiest car in the deck. You had to know who he was to note him in the lobby.

Yeah - verbal/nonverbal/ and express consent. I think it’s a difference between what consent looked like in Jed’s (my) generation (which was the absence of no or physical withdrawal) and what consent looks like now (affirmative verbal consent). By “not consented”, he means “not provided verbal, specific, affirmative…

I agree with this 100% - and it ignores that any situation in which a man is more inebriated than a woman (thus, the woman is a rapist, and it’s an actionable offense) is a construct most women really wouldn’t abide. If pushed, we’d hear the same arguments that we hear when female teachers sleep with male teenage…

Kraft Deluxe is the best, and gold standard, M&C. I think they changed the recipe since I was a kid, but I’m pretty sure my transition from the skinniest kid in my class to a few extra lbs by college can be laid squarely at the feet of Kraft Deluxe. By college, on a splurge day, I’d make the box and put it in a big…

Well, yes. A person who repeatedly underwent the surgeries would likely have an appreciation that she created a physique to inspire gawking. And thus tolerate the gawking (as opposed to someone born with massively disproportionate boobs). Like, it was part of her calculus in getting them and upping them in the first…

Do console yourself that the music industry knew digital was coming for years and they didn’t do anything to prepare (other than sue those 80-some downloaders, which did scare me away) while jacking CD/tape prices. So you likely entered the era with a significant credit (remember BMG and Columbia House). Do also…

Disagree. I think it depended on the type of music consumer you were. It’s been a long time, but I think on Napster (not just the successors we ran to), you could go to an uploader’s library and see if there was something else you liked. So, no, I wasn’t necessarily changing whole musical genres, but I was picking up…

Gutting. I can feel every word you wrote. Hope times have improved for you. I love McDonald’s to this day, and I’ll love them for life. Nothing was better when I was a kid.

Stephanie, you have glorious white, straight teeth. Kudos on your dental regimen. But I wouldn’t touch cheese powder M&C - squeeze-y packet Kraft or Velveeta is the only true M&C.

My grandmother and my great-aunt made a couple of things that I’ve been unable to replicate. My great-aunt made a chocolate meringue pie that was my absolute favorite (her sister (my grandmother) made a passable version, but nowhere near as perfect as my great-aunt). Sadly, there are thousands of similar recipes, but…

Do believe that unless they are sport fishers, most of the people were that far offshore precisely hoping to get closer to splashdown. 12 miles offshore is a long ways off, unless you are heading specifically to an island or are fishing. It’s not where most non-fishing boaters head because you’re kinda “away” if shit…

I’m childfree and well older than the letter writer. I’m also an only child, and I live several hours away from my senior parents. I see them twice per year. We have a perfectly fine relationship, but I am not a millennial and I moved away. In other words, if you had me as your kid to keep you company in your old age,…

Yes - if the rich hoard cash, the economy will be even slower than it is. Spending on the pretty horses and silly clothes puts roofs over people’s heads and food on tables. But the clothing choices are pretty darn silly.

This was the Megyn Kelly argument. Time was when this distinction was okay in tolerated culture, but it is not. I am not defending blackface or impersonations of BIPOC, but I am simply making an observation of shifting cultural norms.

Yeah - if you want to do a takedown, take down Stern. He is of course changed, but in the day, was the worst of the worst and created the market for a race to the fucking bottom. I get the sense that Stern is a sacred cow, esp. among a NYC-based set. Back in the day, if I could’ve willed the Earth to swallow one…

The couple should not have stolen the dog. Period, full stop. But there are a ton of dog rescues that take animals from bad situations by theft/deception/barter in order to save the dog and a lot of people would be okay with that rationalization. If we take the situation that the dog was in a bad medical condition,…

Odd, right? Slow news day? My comment defending someone else calling out the snark against ladies who like planners got me put back into the greys (or there’s a weird Kinja glitch I’ve never seen before in the whole Gawker-Media-uses-Kinja-for-comments era). Because why was this so snarky about extraneous issues?…