Mr. Farrell...what a read. What a glorious, depressing, affirming, hilarious, and cautionary read. From the time I was 17/18 until about 23 I spent a lot of time in boxing gyms. I was never good enough to get past smokers...and I would have been afraid to even if I had any talent. I saw too many dudes right on that…

I enjoyed reading that very much. It was measured and honest in a way that’s hard to pull off, and it put me in your head and left me feeling that I learned something. Full disclosure: I’m a 45 year old white male, born to immigrant parents, liberal social science professor, etc. So given that proviso of my…

“The real life journey that runs from age 13 to 19 starts with a bang. “

child developmentalist/ university professor here...and although my area of expertise is adolescence and young adults and not early childhood, I regularly teach a parenting course. You should ABSOLUTELY ask your kid how their day went. Alice, I don’t know what triggered that post, but that stringing together of…

On the contrary Mr. Schwartz. Please Mr. Moore, stick around, by all means, and keep making a horse’s ass out of yourself and by extension your desperate followers.

A slight exaggeration! But it feels like it some times. Great grandma has a 25 yr old grandson...so it’s easily in the realm of possibility that she will be a great-great-grandma soon.

thank you sir, I needed a good chuckle this morning as I prepare to host 3 4 generations of relatives for a Christmas Eve party...and you delivered.

Right on. I’m a male and the hugs thing annoys me too. It’s almost always highly gendered. I’ve had women try to hug me—and it felt as if THEY felt that it was what was expected of them. I politely demure and try to thrust my hand out as quickly as possible without inadvertently jabbing them in the rib cage.…

Very kind of you to say! I try to post comments I think may have some utility, just as I have gained from the comments of others that have been really insightful and trenchant. Usually, I’m commenting on social science research as I’m a developmental psychology professor. But once in a while something else grabs my…

Nice review, and I’m glad you led with Iphigenia. I can’t overemphasize enough how much understanding both Greek drama and Greek mythology (and two overlap quite a bit, obviously), is important here. When you read enough of both (and as a Greek I was forced to in my youth, but chose to in my adulthood), you come away…

I’m proud of him too. He seems like very good kid, and has gone back to Greece and supported some youth programs there. His entire family seems rock solid. He’s also a big mamma’s boy—-and that’s a positive in my book.

Hello my brother and I say that with as much affection as I one can project in an online comments post)

David, this was a very well-done piece. I was familiar with the general history here, but I learned a lot of fascinating details. This is the kind of long-form story that I hope continues to characterize Deadspin.

Yeah do I have Google, and that’s why I use it to try to respond with actual metrics instead of vague assertions regarding drag strip cars. That was one event of methane release. Are you really going to argue that this one event superscedes all other environmental disasters in the entire United States? including New…

Totally agree on the nuclear...but I think you underestimate wind, solar and storage in combo. CA has a ton of offshore locations where the wind is near constant, and in fact peaks after sunset—-just as solar goes bye-bye. It won’t be enough to carry the full load. But CA has already had days when in nearly 70% of…

Aliso Canyon was a clusterfuck. My godson and two of my oldest childhood friends live in Porter Ranch. but no one died from that leak and based on the chemical profile, no one will. The long term effects are also questionable based on the best science we’ve got. Compared to other environmental calamaties, that doesn’t…

Well now, the more I look at the numbers the more optimistic I’m becoming about renewables in CA. Not only are the numbers going up significantly year to year, the increase seems to be accelerating. From 2006 to 2011 we added only about 3 percent to the renewables column for total energy production. From 2001 (the…

Ok, fair enough, that explains it. I was not including natural gas. If you look at my original post that you first replied to. I specifically mentioned natural gas as being cost competitive to coal, in other words as an alternative. Given it’s about half as polluting as coal, and cheaper, I see it as a win-win. And I…

Yes, so? I think you are losing the thread of your arguments here and flailing about. The discussion was about how electricity is being generated in CA and how that factors into the carbon footprint of electric cars. What does CA’s total energy portfolio have anyting to do with that?l Of course we still have to pump…

???? Did you look at the table you linked to for 2016? I just did and whether you define total energy used to power anything in CA by in-state production or mix in what we buy and “import” in from other places via interstate transmission lines (total power mix), Coal accounts for 0.16% or 4.13% and oil for .02 or…