YES

Sooooo....he should be murdered? I think you may have missed the point of this article.

Think you mean it’s just a work.

I did the same thing! First Tolkien, then Le Guin. The Tombs of Atuan is the most perfect jewel of a novel I’ve ever read. I’m very sad today.

Good grief. You’re just determined to cower under your bed, aren’t you?

But, yeah, umm, sure. CHIP!

You’ve obviously never read anything about the beginnings of partisan animosity in the 1790s.

This comment, however, is a great case study for why copyeditors need much bigger salaries.

I just dare you to google “hyperbole.” GO!

Dude, that hole you’re digging keeps getting deeper.

The article was meant to tweak you, the insufferable Patriots fan, into feeling something other than smugness the day after. Mission accomplished!

Original story says they were watching “Shark Week” (Discovery, I think), not “Shark Tank.” Which is...better?

Maybe consider how much time and mental energy you’re spending on this...?

An honest and thoughtful answer. I think you’re right on here, insofar as any response is also about the significance of it to the responder (rather than simply objective right and wrong).

Cretin.

There are many, many secret alcoholics.

He’s on the pink cloud, and talking about it publicly is probably not the wisest thing. Hope he gets couple of years of recovery out of the public eye.

So which is it, “feminist moment” or “feminist movement”? You use the former in the quote, but the latter in your analysis. These are two different things that can be interpreted in very different ways and GOOD GOD DOES THERE NEED TO BE SOME EDITING AROUND HERE. (P.S. I’M FREELANCE HIRE ME!)

I think any reasonable AA (of which I hope I’m one—a reasonable one, that is!) will tell you, “whatever works for you; AA isn’t the only path.” Glad you’re sober, however you got there.

Yes, exactly, that’s an even better way to put it. I speak from experience (not surprisingly!). Sometimes I put it like this; before I got sober I used to think: “I can’t stop drinking now, because then I couldn’t drink anymore.” To an alcoholic this makes perfect sense; to a normal drinker, it’s completely…