You’re not alone. I cringed when I saw that story and that image on the front page. Who thought that was a good idea?

Last week I did a 4-mile race and came in under my goal time... I’m really trying to work back toward being able to run 5 miles or more but I’m finding it difficult to break through that plateau.

So, he’s not autistic based on your “impression,” but based on an Internet comment you feel like he might be adopted and therefore abused based on his race? I’m also not clear what you’ve seen here that is evidence of abuse, beyond the fact that the kid doesn’t want to engage with you and maybe his mom sometimes…

It takes a real professional to file a dispatch after being guillotined, though.

Oh, he is. He has some made-up special senior correspondent position where he works on passion projects and has NBC News airtime set aside to talk about them. I imagine this was all negotiated while he was still an anchor.

I could just keep posting this comment.

I also don’t want to be friends with the person who was evidently told that and did... what, exactly? Thought it was locker room talk?

I just finished the first episode and am glad to see this review calling out some of the extreme imagery. I was really put off by the first 15 minutes, and by about 40 minutes in it all seemed so over-the-top that it was like watching a feature-length Nine Inch Nails video.

I’ve lived in seven states and saw more overt racism in Pennsylvania than anywhere else. It’s especially outrageous in some of the old mining towns where immigration has revived what were once empty homes and storefronts. This month’s National Geographic has a story on Hazleton, PA (which is now over 50% Latino),…

I moved from the East Coast to the West Coast for my Ph.D. about 10 years ago. I’ve moved around since, and now I’m back on the East Coast but pretty far from my family. I don’t have nieces or nephews, but I have a grandma who doesn’t really travel anymore and the rest of my family are just homebodies. I’ve gotten…

Just to say, I had a similar situation at my very first job as a teenager. It took me a couple of weeks to get up the courage to tell someone, and when I did I found out that he’d been doing it to other women as well. He got fired. Hopefully your situation works out OK. Take care!

Missouri is one of those states where GOP candidates will keep winning despite any bad behavior so long as they present themselves as Christian and pro-life. There are too many single-issue voters who see it as the greater good.

Trefoils are underrated. I’ve honestly never been that into Samoas/Carmel-de-lites. This year I bought a box of the S’mores cookies with the marshmallow and couldn’t make it through the box.

I’m just incredibly bemused by Brad Pitt and this MIT professor. Yesterday I saw a tabloid story that said she was also dating some hedge fund guy.

I have a few friends who married their husbands just because they were ready to have kids and willing to take the first reasonable guy who wanted to settle down. Ten years ago I would’ve been on my high horse about it, but now I’m in my late 30s and I think I’d rather have a marriage of convenience than be alone. (And…

You mean Garrison Keillor, who publicly misrepresented the allegations against him? Who admitted in January that he sent his female employees sexually explicit messages, but didn’t see anything wrong with it? Who was paid $275,000 in a settlement not because he was innocent, but because they were contractually…

Men constantly engage in the handwringing about how men’s lives will be ruined over sexual assault accusations. Yet all the people named in this article are still rich, still have not faced criminal punishment, and after a year or less of public shaming (except in the Cosby case, which has been dragging on a while),…

No, they’re pretty useless. This is a recurrent theme over the years. They’ve had no problem taking money or free childcare from my grandmother, or living at her house rent-free for months at a time, but when someone needs to take her to doctor’s appointments or check in on her after surgery, they’re too busy. Pretty…

My grandmother went into assisted living as of yesterday and I feel raw about it. My mom/dad and aunt have been taking care of her more or less since December. My brother and I live halfway across the country, but my three adult cousins—who all live within 10 miles of grandma—have been totally useless. Worse still,…

I have been known to time my workouts so that I can catch Fresh Prince reruns on BET.