It will almost certainly be someone boring like Tim Kaine. I was hoping it would be one of the Castro brothers, but they’re too young still.

A bunch of supervised field trips to various museums and nature trails with a bunch of clingy moms around isn’t remotely the same in terms of developing social skills as actually being largely on your own with your peers every day and having to learn to form and maintain social relationships. Which is why so many…

Yeah, but I’m going to guess you also don’t work for your mom and spend 90% of your time interacting with and taking direction from her either.

Counterpoint: I have never met a homeschooled kid that wasn’t weird or socially awkward. Taking them out for play encounters and day trip excursions isn’t the same as learning how to interact with their peers on a daily basis. Learning how to be functional in society is almost more valuable than the actual knowledge…

Seems to me like kids still need to learn math, grammar, literature, history, biology, physics, etc. From people that know about that stuff.

Hooray, another bit of discourse in which “normal” equals “people with way more money than us.”

Until they mentioned Cleveland by name, I assumed this was a joke by someone in San Diego.

Shit, do we all have to publicly start apologizing for what little assholes we were at 14? This is going to take a while...

I do dig that she wasn’t apologizing for what she said, merely that she said it publicly. That’s a pretty important distinction.

Why should a man in his 40s pretend to give a shit about Taylor Swift? And then why would he be upset about anyone knowing he doesn't give a shit?

I spent the last few weeks thinking of a tree that we used to have in the backyard of our old house. All those hours I spent under that tree looking up as the sunlight dripped like honey through the leaves. When the thin cold wire of time wasn’t pressing pushing tight against my neck. There was time back then. There’s…

Pro tip: If you ever feel the compulsion to right a long, mansplaining article about why you cheated on your wife (because she was infertile) using only the passive case to describe all of your affairs (these things just keep happening to me!) just don’t do it. Looking at you, Ian MacKenzie.

Let’s hope this doesn’t happen in November with Bernie supporters (I’m one of them) voting for Jill Stein as a protest candidate.

Your writing style is absolutely the worst ...

this tired literary and film device also reinforces simplistic thinking like this in “real life”. When involved in a lawsuit against an employer for sexually harassing me (amongst other types of harassment and discrimination), the defense was able to gain access to information that I had been sexually abused and…

Right? This is the thing: I just don’t need to see it any more. It’s become a sort of bullshit shorthand for “serious” treatment of female characters. You want to show me what a great auteur you are? Show me the relationships between your (named female) characters. Show me a sisterhood, or a mother-daughter…

Ebert called it Ali McGraw disease, where the only apparent symptom is the woman getting more beautiful. Funny to see how early it really started.

As someone who’s tried both, at least in my experience you are right.

Hi Dan—

love actually was garbage come @ me