Correct.

You, my friend, have a great skill that needs to be preserved for all time. Preferably in amber.

That’s twisted, using an apparently feminist tactic as a way to reinforce the patriarchy.

When my wife and I first talked about marriage, we both assumed she’d take my name, not for gender reasons but because I’m proud of my family name and she’s embarrassed by hers (and I see that you noted this exact scenario in the story). She has a number of cousins and uncles running around being terrible people,…

I feel like every city, village, town, hamlet, ditch and cubbyhole in Pennsylvania belongs on the list. Are you telling me Scranton wouldn’t be insufferable if their low-rookie-league A-minus baseball squad won the IGA Foodliner Cup? Not to mention Pittsburgh, State College, Pa., and yes, Philly.

Boy, you showed him!

A know too many people who text when they should call and call when they should text.

Except they don’t have a plan at all [grumble grumble]

This is all the result of Emanuel having no actual constituency, and his habit of abandoning anyone likely to actually follow him.

I could see how someone like Duvernay might be concerned that she’s being used by a mega-corporation to paper over all sorts of bad behavior:

I think to many in the mainstream on the right, Cruz is just as objectionable as Trump because he doesn’t make friends. Even if you don’t buy the idea that the Dems and GOP are secretly all on the same team, it is true that they’re much more friendly with each other when the cameras and microphones are off than either…

He’s a great example of what’s wrong with unfettered capitalism. He creates artificial scarcity for his product so that he can extract mass amounts of wealth from the populace, then he spends that wealth on frivolities. He is a net drain on humanity.

It works out to about 85 wins a year. He’s no Casey Stengel, but that’s decent.

The fact that he’s clearly made some serious mistakes on the clubhouse side doesn’t quite equate to him being a cancer. A .526 career winning percentage over the course of 20 seasons doesn’t happen by accident or luck. That’s a pretty big sample size. Clearly he’s brought something to the table. Not enough for me to…

There’s long been a narrative that the 2nd-place finisher in each GOP nominating contest is magically award the nod the next go-round (unless there’s an incumbent GOP president running for re-election, of course). That was how a lot of people justified favoring Mitt over Santorum in 2012. Since Santorum finished 2nd…

I wanted to buy into this narrative, but there was the part where he had a “friend” that gave me pause.

Absolutely, a lot of my favorite music was made in the ’80s. But if you were stuck in podunk listening to Top 40 or watching MTV, it was hard to find the good music in the later part of the decade. So grunge would’ve seemed world-changing when it burst onto the scene.

The ambition of Vitalogy is really something to behold, even in the places where it ultimately doesn’t hold up. I have no qualms with anyone who claims it as their favorite, even though it isn’t mine.

I’m glad to see someone else bring up Andrew Wood. Doesn’t this somehow feel like the final tying of a bow on grunge? Yeah, it existed before Andrew Wood, but really his death coincided almost perfectly with the rise to national prominence. Cornell and Vedder endure, but you could pretty much write the definitive book…

I think in the late ’80s there was a lot of bad music being pumped through the radio and pimped on MTV, and there was a perception that it was all about the pageantry and not at all about the quality of the music. So grunge was an overreaction, to strip away the pageantry to the point that what you SAW was ugly,…