From where I sit, you neither need to nor should “stick to sports.” You are a citizen of this country and of the world and you are allowed to have opinions and, as a writer, make those opinions known. I seek out your work for the humor and the all-too-relatable parenting stories (not so much for the poop write-ups)…

Sometimes I’m not sure I can leave a sincere comment on this network of sites, but I’m going to do it anyway. This was genuinely inspiring. Thank you. I think I am going to steal your idea.

I have never loved Arnold Schwarzenegger more than I do right now.

Ugh. Several years ago I was watching Felix pitch against the Yankees and Randy Johnson. My father-in-law said, “Mariners past vs. Mariners future, eh?” to which I responded “No, Yankees present vs. Yankees future.” We are a downtrodden lot, Mariners fans.

I am old enough to not have to know who Elgron Answort is but every time I see his name I reflexively want to punch something. I will take a hundred Biebers over one Assworth Elkhat.

Usually “Ma.” Sometimes “Motherp” after the awesome song Madeline Kahn sang a long time ago on SNL.

Gah! This whole article gave me hives. This is exactly why I don’t play Overwatch (or any other team-up-with-strangers online game). It’s pretty and I like the character design, but I have never taken to playing online with people who like playing online. It reminds me of being a kid going to an arcade (I’m old) and…

There is, though, the very real human cost of manufacturing the knock-off bags. Not that the big brands have a stellar track record in terms of working conditions, but there is zero regulation in the knock-off market which can lead to even worse abuses of the people making the product. Though this is probably a…

My wife is a SAG member and while nobody is getting rich off her residual checks, she does get a little “mailbox money” now and then for a couple of things she had bit parts in. I don’t watch pirated stuff out of solidarity for the journeyman actor types who get a little extra money every few months from rentals and…

Bring it home! Certainly you have a third epithet you can hit me with. Otherwise, your whole “argument” falls apart. Please don’t let me down.

Thank you for clearing up what I am.

This makes no kind of sense. But good job on the name-calling.

Things aren’t as black & white as you want them to be.

Enough. None of this is true and you know it. I am a big-city, left-coast, white-collar liberal through and through and none of what you are trying to hang on me fits. So cut it out. I was raised in a central California farm town and many of my friends stayed there because they liked it, and that’s cool. I got out…

That stupid pen ruined more of my pants in high school than the thing you would think would ruin a boys pants in high school. I like pens, but Bic pens are garbage.

My sister has three boys. When I was younger I asked her if she ever wanted a girl and her response was, “Maybe, but I don’t want four boys.”

He’s got me by only 12 years. If I look that rough at 61 please somebody finish me off. Granted I’d have to start drinking two bottles of Old Grand-Dad every day to catch up to his level of busted capillaries and bloating, so maybe I’ll be okay?

HamNo (is that what the cool kids call him?) is one of my favorite writers on this whole network of writerly things. And not just because I can tell which pieces he’s written just by the acerbic headlines. That said, I look forward to another year of trying and failing and trying and failing and trying yet again.

A friend of mine on the Face Book began their praise of the “This Is US” with “If you liked ‘Parenthood...’”

Oh, Chancellor would have rung his bell but good. As a Seattlite I have watched him plenty. I was thinking Goff was thinking that maybe he could have caught the corner since Cam was back a bit. Or at least got out of bounds close to the goal. This is all both conjecture and academic as Sherman did that thing.