I think I’m having a terminology issue—how could one be in love without having passion for the person?

My boyfriend has had the idea to do this for many years. For some reason he has this idea for what he calls “The Biography Project”—a team of writers of various kinds—reporters, historians, novelists, poets—who write the biographies of ordinary people. He’s a writer, himself, not for a living but one of his novels was…

Tamar Adler’s “An Everlasting Meal.” Part memoir, part philosophy, part recipe book, it’s about technique but more about how to *think* about cooking and food.

Hey, let me know if you figure out the answer to this?

I think this is what’s behind a lot of the strong feelings on this thread. Doing extra things like helping your kids prepare for exams just didn’t used to be on the parental radar, at least when I was a kid it wasn’t. And all that extra stuff seems to fall to women.

If China is a possibility, it will be a cinch to get a job there teaching English.

Hey Jezzies, watcha drinkin’?

Don’t be bitter, you were always shit against lefties.

You’re way underestimating George P. Bush—at minimum he’ll be running for Texas governor within a dozen years. And probably winning (emoticon sadface).

I’ll start, I’ve had two. First was when I was a teenager—no traumatic injury, I just up and noticed one day that my back was hurting real bad. It continued to hurt after, but at a much lower level. A dozen years later I took a fall on the tennis court and knew immediately that I’d need another surgery. Now, another…

T-Woods lives in *Albany*???

Scary prescience. Scary.

Does anyone know how Mindymoo’s “Hey Jezzies, whatcha drinking?” posts always end up so high on these OTs? Is it just that she’s on it in terms of replying early?

For the second scenario, you’re in the position of power. Exercise it, there’s a reason you have it. Say something like, “I’m sorry, you’re wrong about that. Here are some references, please read up. If you’d like to lead a discussion for the class on the topic after having done so, please come by office hours.”

This was the most civil internet disagreement I’ve ever had, and frankly it would have been pretty high on my real-life disagreement list, too. Thanks for that.

No. I cited the stars in response to the facetious claims that “We’re totes convinced by your righteous fury.” The person I was responding to made two arguments, 1) I was attacking a straw man, and 2) no one was convinced by my argument. My use of the same word (“convinced”) in my response makes it clear that I am…

That’s plainly not the point I was making but thanks for playing.

Original commenter said: “And my truthful opinion- as the mother of a 4 year old little girl- possibly a firing squad.”

Not sure you understand what a logical fallacy is. The commenter implied I wasn’t convincing anyone, I offered evidence that I was. Pretty straightforward.

I’ve never understood the whole star/grey/black commenting system and have given up trying. Just to be safe I starred all your comments :) .