Sorry Tyrone, but I need to correct you here. I’m a Dom. That just means I have a kink, not a criminal pathology. With a consenting sexual partner who is a sub (for submissive) I enjoy making them feel small/controlled/conquered etc. I like punishing/rewarding them. I get off on power. And in long term relationships I…

I’ve always disliked “alleged” for almost an opposite reason... it allows you to structure the sentence as if the alleged event occurred:

I liked your assessment of Castle’s character in Daredevil season 2 as working because he was more of a sympathetic villain. I don’t follow your leap that making him the focal point of his own show has to change that. We can have good shows about sympathetic bad guys (eg Sopranos). I also am not sure it makes sense…

See there’s the rub. You’re telling this guy to do something you cannot compel him to do (even if he should) and then you refuse to grant him the basic intellectual dignity of subjectivity. If you won’t engage with his perspective, it’s silly to think he’d engage with yours. Wasted opportunity to convert someone to…

The combatively dismissive tone of this article towards a pernicious, yet non-malicious trend in men is unfortunately not constructive. People don’t become “woke” from being chided hard enough.  If you expect someone to change their behavior, you should engage them thoughtfully with some generosity to their…

This is nothing new from Little Richard. His life has been an endless cycle of liberal pleasure binging followed by periods of repentence and religious shame. It’s always made me sad that even his music is often something he views as evil backsliding. When he’s gender-bending, rocking and rolling, nobody does it…

I use Airbnb regularly and they have never received money from me that otherwise would have gone to a hotel, because there never were hotels at comparable prices and I could only barely afford the Airbnb. This is like airlines lobbying against Megabus or Greyhound. I’m scraping by trying to get through college and…

I liked Wilmore and his show, but they both had a major flaw: Larry Wilmore isn’t a good comedian. He’s a funny and quirky commentator and a really good interviewer, but a good portion of his show was usually him flubbing the delivery of pre canned jokes, or him imposing an unnecessary schtick on an interesting group…

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I have little problem with the first assertion, most cheese doesn’t need more than the residual heat of a quickly applied hot paddy to melt it. There are of course exceptions to this- extra thick cheese slices and extra hard to melt cheeses, but in those cases waiting for enough heat to osmose through the burger from…