I wish he was as good at president-ing as he is at tipping and shoe-dodging.

Hmm. I just took it to be shorthand for messing up on anticipating 9/11 and the ensuing clusterfuck that followed. And it was a needed laugh.

I can’t tell if you are serious. If you’re not, well done.

I saw a click-bait headline on another site that didn’t specify the name, and I grimaced, assuming it would be something gross or offensive. But I was delighted to learn it was Boaty McBoatface - it is absolutely fantastic and I hope the UK follows through with their plan.

I left my 18 month old with my in-laws for a rare night out to the The Namesake with my husband. When I got settled in a couple with a fussy newborn arrived and I lost it. I am normally so meek and conflict averse but I stormed over to them and said that their baby better not ruin my night out and I expected them to…

Yes. If you reading it through the lens of evite invitations I do agree that it is a good message. And probably a man came up with the text and it didn’t occur to him that it could land differently for many women. But it does.

You can read it that way. A better shirt would say: “You are a rapist if you aren’t sure you have your partner’s consent.” Because the subtext of this shirt is that women are responsible for stopping rape. We’re still in a rape culture if we have to remind women that they “allowed” to say no.

But girls can’t like potty humor!

You are absolutely right (although he sadly died too young to make any declarative statements about his sexual orientation). I think I made it clear in my post when I specified that the change came when the community affected by AIDS extended beyond the gay community. But part of the stigmatization of AIDS was the…

Shameful does not begin to describe the Reagans’ record on AIDS. However, although it was much too late and clearly only came when AIDS’s reach extended beyond the gay community, they did take a public stance on AIDS acceptance while the disease was still very stigmatized. Google Ronald Reagan’s obit in the Washington…

This one was a real head scratcher.

I really wish that’s what she was doing. But I don’t think that’s what she was doing. I can’t come up with anything else that makes sense though. It was such an idiotic thing to say.

The part I don't understand is that this behavior puts other people at risk. The kid could have shot someone else. Or killed her and then have had to live with that burden his whole life. So even if we acknowledge that private gun ownership isn't going away, I can't for the life of me understand why we should just…

So if I’m your typical 2nd Amendment fanaticist, how do I process this story? Is it just like reading about someone who didn’t buckle their seatbelt and got in a car accident? Do I think: “That’s unfortunate. She should have made a better choice.”

In NYC there are zoned elementary schools within blocks of each other that have completely different demographics. They could integrate them without having to do any weird gerrymandering with school zone lines or busing kids. But when the city tried to do that this year in a couple of instances, communities went nuts.…

I agree with everything you said and would add that we need to also (re)start real discussions about integrating schools. It is shameful that places like NYC have the most segregated schools in the country.

I’m so scared of Trump that I can’t find any jokes about him funny. Like I chuckle for a moment but they all just serve as reminders of how much he will destroy the country if he was elected.

My kids attended a very fancy-pants NYC preschool with lots of A-list celebs, hedge funders, etc. We had a gala every year to raise money for the tuition assistance fund. They would raise hundreds of thousands of dollars often selling opportunities to have a walk-on role in a movie. Or lunch with a producer. Anyway,…

I was a Jewish Studies/History double major. We spent a lot of time in Hebrew school studying the Holocaust. I am familiar with the context for Hitler’s rise to power and anti-semitism throughout Germany and Europe. I’m not really sure why I am giving you the impression that I am trying to make excuses for Hitler.

I think we just don’t agree on what the implications of “monster” are. I understand your point. I agree that his actions are the actions we would associate with a monster. I just think that when we talk about people who do terrible things there is value in understanding their story and how they ended up that way and…