I think you read history through the eyes of a boy/man who needed to bond with his father “against” the mother. History is replete with the stories of women, told by the men who got published, as to how “difficult” the women were. There are two sides to every coin and alienation of affection is a real phenomenon.…

Steinbeck was not drafted, at least not according to web resources. Even if he had registered, “most” men with families did not, in fact, serve because married men received a deferment and those with children were at the back of the line. He willingly took a job with a NY newspaper as a writer and headed to the action.

While I feel for the son because it’s no picnic being the child of two alcoholics, and while I’m generally judgy towards women who are the mistress and then resent the fact that the guy is a douche to them when they’re the wife......the way this reads to me is, “My father chose to take a job thousands of miles away…

Agreed.  That is a woman who knows balance in accessories.  The earrings are important too.

There’s fierce, and then there’s fierce.  I love how fierce she looks in the photo, like, “Take THAT, awful forces of the world that make babies cry.”  Props to her and her bosses.

My belief is that most anti-abortionists are assuming the baby is male.  All their discussion is around this - it’s not that women are preventing a child from being born, it’s that that woman is impeding entry of another male into the world.

If he thinks contraception is murder, because it prevents - I guess - the very IDEA of a baby - what does he think whacking off is?  Genocide via body parts?  There’s no way to make sense of it.

He pointedly says he was expecting someone else to raise the kid.  There’s your personal responsibility right there!

I love Suspect so much.  Cher, a hot and tender Liam Neeson, a hotter and badder Dennis Quaid, political intrigue, good scares, D.C. at its creepiest, some gritty looks at doing law for a living....so good.  I wish they’d do a Suspect 2, with Cher as a judge or a longtime public defender.

If I can think of where I read it, I’ll find the link. It’s related to scandals like Jimmy Swaggart’s [insert your adulterous pastor here].

Yes, my dominant feeling about this entire letter is that I wish a fraction of the signers’ energy had ever been sent on defending either a staff member from bullying or a graduate student from harassment.  The way they throw their weight around in the letter, they all sound like the bullies and perps, guilty…

I think it’s significant that she said she left the writer’s room - in other words, it wasn’t just his face/looks, it was that she loved the glimpse she got of his personality and spirit.  Sometimes you do just know who you click with.

Plus, I’m guessing that if she hasn’t divorced him yet, it might give her more rights to limit how much contact the kids have with the girlfriend.  From her perspective, as long as there’s cause to keep the kids visiting their dad on her sober terms, she can buy her kids more time away from the free-for-all that she…

Agree with the exception that I think some high-wage workers are going to be shocked that corporations can save a lot more money by automating high-wage occupations, like doctors and lawyers and financial analysts.  All this work can be done much more quickly by AI, with the exception of a few fields like surgery.

I’m going out on a limb and saying that’s a photo of Taylor’s plane the first time she came to [wherever they met or first got together]. As in, here’s the touchdown of the plane my new girlfriend arrived on, and we’re still together. I know Tom Hiddleston messes with this timeline but I believe she had already met…

I’m so sorry for your family’s loss.  {inadequate, hugs}

This reminds of the psychological studies that, IIRC, show that people who perform overtly “godly” or noble acts on a regular, visible, basis often feel like they “gave at the office,” and thus exempt themselves from what we’d call moral behavior in other decisionmaking arenas. It’s a version of Alfred E. Neumann’s…

And if you’ve ever visited the Vatican, you know that is chump change. That’s when I realized that the church could probably lift the world’s poor out of poverty by itself simply by holding a fire sale.

First Jessica Chastain marries her hot fashion prince (also younger, I think) and now Robin Wright. #Envious.

While we’re on the subject, this is a terrific column.  Out of the room, into the view, with Maggie Smith and wild female novelists as role models as well: