I don’t think these people fear commitment, they fear commitment to an equal. Even when they stay together, the fact is that those in these relationships are never quite equals.

Based on the essay, it seems that Anonymous’ mother waited until he was 19, a year after graduation, to begin a sexual relationship with him. Or so we are told. Emotional affairs need not be sexually initiated to still be infidelity — and the power imbalance between the two still make the entire situation problematic.

Her theory was that very young, newly married women are often disappointed by the reality of marriage— you get married and after the excitement of the wedding you’re confonted with the day-to-day drudgery of matrimony, the gross skid-marked laundry, the way sex becomes less exciting after a bit, the emotional…

This is Boston, where few of the (white) fans care and the non-white fans have become uncomfortably numb to the racism. Jerry would get more play apologizing to the family of the woman his son, Jared, murdered.

Pretty much. I’ve long ago concluded that Boston is Jackson, Mississippi, with worse accents and without the good Southern cuisine.

And those who hate Steelers nation will laugh. Heartily.

Exactly. Sports is ultimately about dominance. Occasionally a Babe Ruth will be tied to a New York Yankees and end up being both beloved and dominant. Or a Jordan and a Chicago Bulls team is beloved and dominant. But that rarely happens. The San Antonio Spurs were the dominant NBA team of the last decade and Kobe…

I’ll take Hourglass Night over Taco versus Bacon Night anytime. Especially since Hourglass Night will feature “tacos”.

While I sympathize with you, I wouldn’t want a good guy like Kaepernick anywhere near the Jets. Because it’s like being a passenger on ValueJet Flight 592.

Yup. Given the history of Caps folding against even weak Rangers teams, there is no guarantee that Washington would have won the series.

The Rangers’ “window” has been closing for a few years now. The team still manages to make deep runs in the playoffs. Melrose doesn’t know shit.

Yup. I’m a Rangers fan. I hate the seeding system. But the Rangers deserved to lose. The Blueshirts couldn’t keep a lead when it counted and the final score says it all.

Everyone with a brain and not from Montreal knew beforehand that Nashville got the better of that deal. It’s just that it took the Rangers beating the Habs to put the exclamation on it.

I didn’t think it was the Capital’s year. Even if it made it past the Penguins (doubtful as always), it would have either had to deal with Ottawa (the new New Jersey Devils) or get spanked by the Rangers (because Capitals be Capitals).

Fucked up royally, too. A case can be made that McDaniel effectively ruined the careers of two quarterbacks as well as didn’t do all that well as a coach. It didn’t help that John Elway was running the show. But since Denver has won a Super Bowl under him since McDaniel left, it seems that Elway wasn’t the problem.

Of course, Houston’s offensive system under Bill O’Brien is utter crap, which is why the Texans haven’t had one quarterback that has stuck through since he became head coach. If not for the defense, the Texans would just a sorry cellar-dwellar. 

This is true. Especially since there is also Jacoby Brissett, who is only in his second year, and can become the successor if Garoppolo walks.

I agee that this could have been handled more appropriately, but seriously, people: this is exactly the kind of behavior that could possibly precede another 9/11-style attack, if two people are using the same ticket for different flights.

What happened was the parents thought they can seat both toddlers in their laps. The problem is that they realized that this doesn’t work well. Given that they couldn’t by another seat on that flight, they bought tickets for the older kid on the flights that were available. This made perfect sense and I would have…

This is an important point. When my I booked our family’s flight to Orlando last year, the airline made it impossible to seat all three of us in one row. Not just on one flight, but on both. Luckily for us, there were kind folks (or, more-importantly, folks who didn’t want to sit next to a toddler) who accommodated…