Judging from that ridiculous piece by Jane Mayer, though (that motivated another person to come forward and say that Franken had groped them), I don’t know that Franken really understands, on a genuinely soul-searching level, that what he did was wrong. That Mayer piece turned into a THIS IS ALL KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND’S…

My objection is that they always want to jump right to the front of the line, and go straight for Senator, Governor or President.  Like, how about a couple of terms on your City Council or school board, there, star?  You know, learn how government works and how to be a team player.

Does anyone else remember being told that “Tab” stood for “Totally Artificial Beverage”? No? Just me?

(I don’t actually think that’s how it got its name, but then I also remember it being pointed out, when Evian came on the scene that, spelled backwards, it was, “Naive.”)

Years ago, the very same publication, the NYT, ran a piece on the vast amounts of money snack food companies put into product development, designing their products to be as addictive as possible (lots of work and money went into the “mouth feel” of a Dorito).

Right? I mean, folks, Father Time comes for all of us.

I remember the to-do’ing over whether Cher had had work done, back in the 1980s, and I also remember her saying something along the lines of, “It’s my body; I can do what I want with it.” Good for her, if I’m remembering right. It was a very affirming thing for an insecure teenage girl to hear.

I feel for celebrities…

A few million in scholarship money is an annoyance to her, not a punishment. If we want rich people to stop breaking the law, which they do, and often; white collar crime costs the nation a lot more every year than the breaking-and-entering-kind, they need to fear the loss of their freedom if they get caught. A fine…

I’m sorry; I was trying to agree with you, but I did it poorly. I am also bothered by the obsession online with how many films he did while undergoing treatment. Yes, acting is work, but it’s also a lot of fun, and it’s comforting to think that a good human being like Mr. Boseman got to spend the last years of his…

“This is a great loss. Many are lauding the fact that Boseman continued to work throughout his treatment. This was his choice and we honor the choices he made. But please do not think it is necessary or important to maintain a ‘productive’ life when battling a terminal illness.”

Every cancer journey is different, and…

I did not vote for her in the primaries because I was suspicious of her very good relationship with Andrew Cuomo (who, for all that I give him credit for being good during the Covid-19 crisis, would have been a very fine Republican in the 1950s). I was afraid it’d be another term of the wealthy getting away with…

Oh, I see- this has gone away from the subject of the piece, corporal punishment of children (which is fine; it’s an interesting discussion on its own merits). You know, I think it varies, person to person, and there seems like there is no rhyme or reason to how some people handle crises in life and others do not.

Alth…

The first season of this show was more fun than it had any business being, (even though I guess the winner later said she was told early on in the filming they’d picked her to win so not to appear too bitchy or anything).

But that final tag, when Heather said something along the lines of, “I can’t believe I got this…

Ah, I see what you’re saying. I think there are many different kinds of pain, and people react to different things in different ways. My brothers are refugees (they and my stepmom fled their native country after spending years in a labor camp), emigrated here, living in poverty for awhile, later, after my stepmom…

Hey! You know who had a conservative clean cut hair style? Ted Bundy. And look how he turned out. What an example of excellence!

I can’t believe it’s 2020 and schools are still doing this shit. 

I don’t think trauma is something you get “trained” into- like, spanking isn’t going to prepare you to deal with death. And it’s not going to prepare you to deal with getting dumped, or fired, or how to deal with war or addiction.

Life itself is going to bitchslap us all upside of the head hundreds of times; I don’t…

I tended towards being verbally teased, myself (I also tended to keep to myself because I was shy), but not physically bullied, but I was also an eager-to-please type so I tended not to get into trouble.

My mom spanked when we’d screwed up, so it wasn’t a case of not knowing when she’d strike- in fact, she did…

My predominantly white elementary school in south central PA in the late 1970s also had it- the principal was legendary for his paddle with holes in it.

I was in the same school district for my entire K-12, and by the time you got to the middle school, and then the high school, the bullying was pretty awful for a lot…

Ha! Maybe. Certainly everyone seems to know the urban legend. I have disappointed so many friends when I’ve said, no, I saw him interviewed about it and actually he was just really mad at his ex-wife.

We took my then 8 year old to see him a couple of years ago on the I’m Not Dead tour (the kid was obsessed at the time with “In the Air Tonight”). He put on a pretty good show for an old guy who can’t drum anymore himself.  We had a really good time.

We elected Giuliani twice, too.  We’re big into the sunk cost fallacy when it comes to our Mayors.