Yeah, I hear you on that. Someone, on this site I think it was, pointed out that had they pulled the same prank at their office party (photographed pretending to grope a passed-out colleague), they’d have been fired before work resumed Monday morning. It’s not unreasonable to hold Senators to the same standard as the…

Right?  I assume she saw the opportunity to make some sponsorship $$ and the media was lazy enough to pick the story up.

Yes. For better or worse, these allegations aren’t going to mean anything in terms of who wins the election, but if they turn into enough of a scandal AFTER the election (when, assuming a Democrat wins, we will see the media suddenly, magically, start holding the Administration accountable for everything from sex…

My neighbor had Covid 19 in late March and treated it with rest and lots of Gatorade. And was sick for... 9 days, just like Cuomo.

Yes!  As a kid, that was one of the boring chapters for me, but as an adult, it’s one of my favorites.

I love that section, too! And how the husband gets huffy about it and won’t hire him for awhile but his wife takes up complaining about every other cab he hires until he finally agrees that she can hire Jerry’s cab again. A nice little resolution to the working man standing up for himself.

I reread this book every year or so; I also have loved it since childhood. I think Sewell says some very timeless things about religion (and the hypocrisy of some who practice it), and class, and humanity. For all that Black Beauty starts out working for the aristocracy, I think the longest section of the book is…

True. I was in NYC, I remember Rudy saying, “Oh, heeeyyyyy, how about we delay the Mayoral election for a while so I can stay on and guide us through this terrible-” and NYC interrupting to tell him to geddafukouttaheah.

Both hands, now wash both hands

I’m white, almost 50, grew up in Central PA, and this piece made me remember my Uncle Butts and that I never knew what his real first name was. Or his last name. Or how he was related to me. Or if he was. My mind is completely blown today. 

Thank you for that link; it was great!  I love that guy- he also did a really good 2 parter on whether we should still watch Gone With the Wind.  This one you linked inspired me to subscribe to his channel.

Thanks for this write up; I think I will go check out the special. As the parent of a boy, I think a lot about how we expect boys to perform masculinity from a very young age, and because the dirty secret about machismo is that a man can never be masculine enough, many boys end up as men who are not just angry, but…

I told my husband recently that I’d never seen the original, and I couldn’t remember why (I love horror). I just watched the trailer for the new one, and now I remember:

This was a great read. Because I am an Old, I remember when people actually watched the pageant. I also remember a (male) 5th grade teacher, the day after, grousing to the class that the winner wasn’t “that pretty.”  I remembered it being a year Ms. California won, and went and looked it up, and sure enough; the…

Yeah, but Bernie absolutely floundered in his explanation.  And calling his $600,000, on 5 acres of waterfront property a “camp” or however he tried to downplay it... not a good look.  The other candidates have been pretty hands-off on him; the GOP will not be.

This. If she’d said, “Until we’re no longer making only 72 cents to your dollar, don’t you dare wear dresses because you don’t deserve to experience the relief from the summer heat that only a cute flowing sundress can offer” then I would have maybe been okay with it.

My stepmom, when I called my parents to cry that I was just dumped (at 25) by my boyfriend of 2 years (while I was on tour, 500 miles from home, no less): “Well, better you know now.” She was so CHEERFUL about it! My heart was breaking! And she was CHIPPER!

“Bruce Willis was dead all along.”

Man, she brings back such fond memories of my late tweens-early teen years. Her, Dean Koontz, Stephen King- my aunt loved them all and passed the books along to me. I think “A Stranger is Watching” was the first one of hers I read and I thought it was just the best thing EVERY. Ninety-two is a heck of a good run. …

No. The fear of jail is the only thing that has any chance of scaring rich people into behaving. Fines are pocket change to them; they’re just part of the cost of getting what they want, when they want it. But you can’t get back time you spend behind bars, no matter how wealthy you are.