I’m afraid his heart wasn’t growing. That Grinchy-smile was in response to the humble Fed Ex delivery agent (hands and forearms pictured in tweet) who was simply trying to get MJ to sign for a package, so he could be done with work.

I spent my entire childhood on “the list.” For many years my dad recycled a joke where he would open a letter from the Washington Football Club. Then he’d raise his eyebrows in feigned shock and say, “Good news!” Pause for an excited reaction; which he only got once. Once. So he would continue pausing, before…

I could tell how lonely you are so I gave you people to interact with here. You’re welcome, ingrate.

I spent a lot less time on that than you took to respond to everyone today. You’d get a lot more work done on that petition if you didn’t spend so much time stroking yourself here, after everyone left.

Okay, but if it’s “old” then the “take” is no longer hot. And if it’s based on thousands of years of evidence and discovery, which has influenced this non-fiction to be continually updated and revised, it’s not really a take anymore is it?

I just prayed on this and was surprised by the answer I got. God wants you to change your tag out of respect for Brooks Robinson’s glove, which was an atheist.

Indeed. As someone outside the Boston and Philly spheres, I am more impressed by the process that has seen one team get better each and every year since 2013, when both were initiated.

I wish I could give you a star for every time I have thought about this scenario playing out. You would have at least 3. More. Stars.

I want to call this a humble brag, only it doesn’t sound remotely humble. Now look at this part of a sentence you wrote “...even though about a number of her grades...”

This is an excellent piece Albert. Well done.

Nope. Sticking up for reason and action over reactionaries who espouse a fatalism that says all hope is lost so don’t bother trying to make anything better.

Oh right! Just like when someone says something prejudice around someone else who is a member of the group being prejudged and then gets mad at said person for taking offence. They should know better and stop being so damn sensitive! I should also no better than to try and add nuance when half the worlds population…

Yes, the problem is men’s actions. I agree with that completely. I still don’t like how the original sounds because I don’t like it when anyone paints with a brush so broad as to include roughly half the world’s population as irredeemable by virtue of their chromosomes and/or gender identity.

I don’t know who OP is. I agree, it is mostly men. And patriarchy is just as much of an abomination now as it ever was. What I was trying to point out is that by saying “the men” it literally means every man. Every man of color, every man is who is gay, every man who is trans, and every man who has been a victim of…

That was part of my point. And I said that very thing and more when I responded to candy_pant’s “How about no”reply. But that response was not included in the thread so that her snarky cop-out reply looks like it was the last word at this catty ass lunch table.

Thank you for offering balance and reason when you very justifiably could have espoused a reactionary and cynical view.

Of course you won’t. But by saying “the men” you just casually just lumped in to your insult (this is a partial list)...all men of color, all gay men, all trans men, all male sex slaves, all male pow’s and political prisoners, every man who is indigent, every man who is now or ever was considered a man. I guess that’s…

“I don’t want to be a man hating feminist but the men are making that really difficult”

Was born and raised in NVA. I call it NVA because it sounds cooler to [my ears] people who have never been to see how undeserving it is of a cool sounding anything. Also, so as not to be confused with the regional community college chain—NOVA—that I attended but don’t consider myself to be “from”. And finally who the…

Grey here! Glad you recognized (while you were writing your response?) the subjectivity of grey in your first paragraph,”I guess.”