I read earlier (I really read it, I wasn't there) that the best part of the Porn Oscars are some very exciting after parties.

And the older I get the more I realize how much white privilege has helped me. As I see and do more I can't avoid feeling in a way that I am being buoyed up by something that was entirely not an achievement of mine.

You are right. I should have mentioned that. Little old people trying to hold onto their week's food shopping while going upstairs. It is usually a young women who helps out

I think you’re right. No one said the word “Jewish.” But after awhile I understood what they were asking despite their attempt to make themselves not seem like bigots. Very weird for a NY person to find out the Texans thought everyone in NY was Jewish.

I wish I had the right to give you hundreds of stars!

Do you note that older women seem to be just about the only riders who will give up a seat for a pregnant woman now? It is so weird seeing little old ladies doing this while everybody else looks away. I would get on toward the end of the route so there was never a hope of me getting a seat, but standing lets you see…

Oh yes, the quiet anti Semitism I ran into in Dallas. I am from NY but I am not Jewish. Those Texas people tried all kinds of gambits trying to find out if I were Jewish or not. I played with them by pretending I did not understand what they were trying to ask. It was funny and horrible at the same time.

Several months ago this guy was offended that there were no fundies on the Supreme ourt, just those pesky Jews and Papists.

I'm an Old so I remember women dying from unsafe illegal abortions. Just before New York State legalized abortion a girl from my high school was found dead in an alley. She bled out after the abortionist perforated something and they left her body behind when they fled. Planned Parenthood is a godsend to women who…

I agree 100%. Let them go without every convenience and see what happens. It's easy to say "I will die" to defend the country from some nutty vision of "tyranny", not so easy to live without power, water, internet.

Life now can be so hard for young adults. The jobs you could get, with the addition of a spouse’s were once quite suitable to settling down and raising a family. Now? I am just grateful my children have real jobs with benefits. But that’s not all that common. I know well raised young adults who just cannot get a…

Are they still having problems addressing sexual assaults on women students on that campus? If so, how long before a pissed off victim, ignored by the administration, pulls out her handgun and shoots her abuser down? Then what, Mr. Falwell? Only penis-having students should be armed?

That’s a hard 66. I was thinking he was mid-70s. He shuffles as he walks, a sure sign of aging. Can't blame that gait on too much sun. Bad genes? Bad habits?

My dad was an NYPD detective. Not exactly prime left wing material but he was 100% in favor of strict gun laws. As he said "you want every yahoo from Jersey sitting on the subway waiting to save the day?" People are too stupid to back away from the doors so people can get out and in. Do you honestly think a subway car…

Please, Dr.Hamilton, will you come to my department's next meeting? Some of the booties might be too big for your hold but your calm and happy tone of voice would really, really help. We need an experienced pediatrician - STAT!

My grandmother wore corsets from adolescence on. When she got old she had to wear a corset because her back muscles had atrophied.

Has this man had stroke recently? I keep reading he was a highly respected pediatric neurosurgeon. Just listening to the way he speaks in that dragged out way I would not be comfortable saying, "sure, you're the guy I trust to cut into my baby's brain." Is he a brilliant technician and lacking normal human reaction in…

I know this is anecdotal but my first two children were delivered by midwives. Both weighed nearly nine pounds and I did not have an episiotomy with either. The midwives worked with my body and it did indeed stretch to accommodate each baby. Due to medical insurance changes I had to have my third child delivered by an…

The old money families have done a good job in populating the Main Line with giant trashy houses. The heirs of several of these families sold off their inherited property to developers who put in as many huge houses zoning rules would permit. Not that I fault the heirs for doing whatever they wanted with their…