“I think part of the answer is: Grandpa. He’d sit on the front stoop in Levittown in the 1950s. A sunny day, the kids are tripping by, there’s a tree in the yard and bikes on the street and a car in the front. He was born in Sicily or Donegal or Dubrovnik, he came here with one change of clothes tied in a cloth…

I kinda want to do parodies of them now, starting with an analysis of why shooting fish in a barrel is a time-honored hunting actual tradition.

OMG, those columns are the worst. I want the grumpy gardener to weigh in on them.

Yeah, I was thinking either that or just poor/aged circulation. Hope she’s otherwise OK.

“I need you to tell me where to put the modem and the TV thing and the typewriter thing.”

I didn’t get a good sense of the men’s intellectual prowess from the trailer so I can’t say.

I don’t think the definition of discrimination applies to stupidity.

oh my God

ugh I have no idea but I have two sons and I call them out every single time. They still do it CONSTANTLY though.

Every single time I’ve tried this I’ve either gotten laughed at or called “disingenuous.” Or both. But hey, I’ve only been in the workforce for two decades so I should still be “paying my dues.”

Banky agrees to it, but I always got the feeling from subtext before and after that moment that he agreed to it partially because he was interested.

Completely agree, I never read the ending as anything other than no, lessons were learned but they are not getting back together. And I never read the threesome-proposal as anything but “uh, no, that’s a brosponse to the situation that is not going to work or fix anything.” Didn’t get that that suggestion was meant to…

Rich married people.

Pretty much all of what you said.

Is hastrumpmadeamericagreatagainyet.com still up?

I made a point of not participating in Light it Up in Blue this year because of the reason you stated regarding Autism Speaks. While I am not on the spectrum, I have several friends who are, and also several friends whose kids are, and my closest friends are anti-Autism Speaks because of that organization’s behaviors.

Whatever, Marvel. My sons look for Widow in every Avengers set they get, and on every shirt, and most of the time she’s not there and they are PISSED. They’re still waiting for her movie.

Oh my God, I have that one as a Magic Media Talking Book (a 45 RPM record and accompanying book). It is so disturbing. My kid was freaked out by that one and won’t listen to it anymore.

I thought the point of it was that they shouldn’t outsource and that was why Mary eventually left after basically doing triage.

I’m totally going because my younger son is an evil genius and both he and my older son agree on this. I expect this will be biographical.