Lunch sure has changed. It’s telling when lunchbox manufacturers aren’t accounting for the amount of containers for low-waste lunches many schools prefer. I rarely use plastic baggies for my kids’ lunches, and when it’s field-trip day and we are allowed to, it feels like a kick to the environment.

Thank you. This is something that should be shouted out all the time. You can’t blame Michelle for the state’s roll out and execution.

It’s not. I don’t relate to your blanket statement that people who create shouldn’t put anything “out there” if they don’t want to be scrutinized. That’s a broad assumption and very limiting. Do you know anyone who creates—anything? Furniture makers, musicians, poets, chefs? Everything they do makes the person a…

I get it, but to know this person’s “true” identity didn’t really add or subtract from the work. She’s still writing as her, she just changed her name. It’s not like George Sand, but in a way, it absolutely is.

What? So writers shouldn’t write and filmmakers can’t make films and painters shouldn’t be painting if they fear publicity? Do you know any creative people and why they create in the first place? Sure, fame may be part of it, but it’s not the whole of it and if someone wanted to be anonymous, it doesn’t detract from…

Therein lies the problem. Does someone’s ethnicity always have to inform their work? Does one always create through being a woman/Filipina/doctor/second-oldest sibling filter? Let’s ask Kazuo Ishiguro who wrote ‘Remains of the Day’ and ‘Never Let Me Go.’ He’s of Japanese descent but lives in England. I would say being…

and sometimes it’s not.

It seems you need to take the “attorney” out of your writing. Shorter, pithy phrases, please!

thank you.

That is not entirely fair. Anyone that wants to create should be subjected to intense scrutiny because they wanted to share an idea/vision/dream in a movie, documentary, book, poem, blog? Why can’t Ferrante’s work stand on the its own? Obviously that’s what Ferrante wanted it to be.

Agreed. George and Charlotte are adorable, but they do look like they are dressed for 1935. It seems that one of the most visible trappings of royalty or the presidency or any public office is a tendency toward conservative sartorial choices. Look at Kate. At first she was hitting the common-but-chic notes, then the…

I wouldn’t think was necessarily true. A small firm, if given the business, should hire out for the project. Never turn down that kind of money.

A huge percentage are from California. Go, Cal!

Here’s a response from Quora, which sums it up:

Simply, “oriental” is a term applied to Asians; Asians didn’t coin the term themselves. So, it’s offensive because it connotes all the exoticism found in Asia from an outside perspective...and then expects Asians to be happy about it.

I like the eloquent and well-spoken response by Mike Hayden. Why don’t we have adults who talk like adults anymore?

I’m actually way into this pairing:

She has nice penmanship.

What is really scary is the Germany-1939 mindset he’s creating during his rallies: older “patriotic” voters who verbally abuse the penned-in media, jeering and pointing fingers in the reporters’ faces for just doing their jobs.

Wow, this is amazing! If I was further along on my documentary project, I’d love to interview your friend. The fascination of cognitive dissonance.