Right! I would be interested to see what law is on the books giving police officers authority to arrest a kid for disobeying a teacher, and I’d also like to see the school policies in place that tell teachers when to call the cop in. Even without the excessive force in this incident, it’s really troubling (and by…

Just picked up my copy of the book and my ticket to Thursday night’s Chicago event — a conversation between Gloria Steinem and Roxane Gay. Suuuper excited! Anybody else going?

Opinion that until today I thought was universal, but y’all are crazy: Any pen with a lid is better than any pen that clicks and and out.

Opinion that until today I thought was universal, but y’all are crazy: Any pen with a lid is better than any pen…

In Time magazine a couple of weeks ago, I saw a statistic that seems really telling to me. DCIS used to account for 3% of diagnosed breast cancer cases, and now, with everybody getting so many mammograms, it is 25% of the diagnosed cases. In other words, we’re only finding it because we’re looking for it, not because…

I think both of those, but also a third: as a public policy issue, it’s a waste of money to do so much unnecessary testing.

That doesn’t seem true to me. Being willing to do this seems like a very big deal to me. I’m imagining my workplace if someone found out they were making more than everybody else and then was willing to share that salary information, especially during a time period where we were all negotiating a new salary. That…

That hat is the most Swedish thing I’ve ever seen, and I love it.

I love the Mary Tyler Moore show (just realized my avatar is a MTM quote, actually). Just last night I came across a PBS special about the show and Mary’s life, including an interview with her in which she says, “I believe that women have an important job to do raising their children. That’s not what Gloria Steinem…

Frank did love a room with a theme. A literal, beat-a-dead-horse, draw a picture on the wall of the thing that is your theme, nothing but theme, theme.

One episode of that show had my favorite quote ever from a reality show. A homeowner who went back to her old house, which had been redecorated by someone who must have watched the Sopranos and thought, yes, Carmela has exquisite taste, if only she just went a little further with it. The poor woman looked around and…

This is the correct opinion.

Come on Mark, seriously? You think holding her plate is the only thing she claimed is wrong? (she’s not defending, by the way — she’s the one suing.) Or do you think it’s possible that she provided a lot of testimony about the effects of the injury, but the Daily News singled out one piece of testimony that certainly…

No. If the case is at trial now, she filed suit a long time ago. Under Connecticut law, where this case is, she had to file suit within two years of the injury. So, at least two years ago. Before his mother died. The mother’s death is an unfortunate fact that makes this all sound worse, but the theory that the aunt…

Because that’s how tort law works. If you injure me, I can’t sue your insurance company. Their contract is with you, not me. The only way for me to get to them is through you. The only person I can sue is you, the person who injured me.

That’s not possible. If the case is at trial now, obviously it was filed a year or two ago. In fact, she had to file suit within two years of the injury, so at least two years ago, which was before the mother died.

Good for you, thank you. I feel terrible for this woman getting publicly shamed for doing this totally routine thing. My guess is that the combination of “Upper East Side” and “8-year-old hug” was just too juicy-sounding for the New York Daily News to pass up, but basically the same thing happens all the time.…

Of course that’s what this is. You could go onto the docket of any court in the country and find 100 similar cases of friendly parties filing suit because they have to do it to trigger insurance coverage or extract payment from a reluctant insurer.

This was my mom’s strategy for assigning most household chores to my sister and me. We’d each get a list that said, “pick up 15 sticks from the yard, put away 10 items of your clean laundry, dust 2 shelves of the bookcase.” We usually ended up doing more than the assigned number of whatever, which was of course her…

I saw this on live local Chicago tv coverage of the marathon. They stopped at mile 8 (they met in an 8-minute-mile marathon training group), where their friends and family were waiting, and a friend performed a short ceremony on the side of the road while other people ran by behind them. Big props to their friend — I…

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. Unfortunately I’m gray, or else you’d be able to see my response to someone else in which I said that I absolutely don’t mean that sororities shouldn’t be criticized. And my point isn’t even to say let’s remember this good thing a sorority did the next time someone…