“Twelve Not Dead at McDonalds Because Angry Women didn’t have Guns.” I can see the relationship, but I’m not deliberately blind.

This is like the first third of a mystery novel when everyone thinks they know who the guilty person is, and then the detective goes about showing what really happened. The three smiling ladies might be guilty or not, but I’m disappointed at the reporter on the story, who didn’t have enough curiosity to go beyond the…

Jurors who disagree with the sentence Judge Persky gave Turner are excusing themselves from jury panels. That leaves...?

Nice idea, although “whibs” is unfamiliar to both the eye and ear. I would like to make a simpler (unrelated) suggestion: spell the past tense of “read” as “redd.” This would remove the ambiguity in sentences like “I read that as a warning.” Alternatively, if we wanted the word to have a more traditional look, we…

I read once that in many pre-modern societies, mothers would carry their babies everywhere on their hips. Without diapers, the mothers would get a good feel for when the baby was going to produce something and hold them at arms’ length until the deed was done.

Naptime. We stopped giving our kids naps at an early age and they slept better at night. We did, however, read and sing to them until they dropped off. If it took them too long to drop off we just moved bedtime later until we hit a sweet spot, which was convenient because we often couldn’t eat dinner together until 8…

I can’t laugh at this story. Yes, he needs to go to prison and be treated if he has an emotional or mental disability. No, his nose is not funny. But most importantly, this is a feel good story about something that is not America’s current rape problem — that would be acquaintance rape involving sex either without…

I thought Pee Wee Hermann brought it back as the pun “Cowabugna.” (While looking at ant farm.)

I don’t think there’s any dispute things are hard for white men living below the poverty line in West Virginia. It’s hard for their wives and sisters, too. But they are being conned if they let Trump yank them along like pull toys because he is NEVER going to improve their lives or care about improving their lives.…

Was going to say this exact thing, NomNom, but not as well. Hubris: she just knew without checking first that the pictures were ten months late because of some lazy bureaucrats. How many other facts, about more important stuff, have you not bothered to check, Greta?

No, not a good apology. Good PR. John, you know how to use a phone? Call Keira, don’t text her. Let her vent her anger at you. THEN tell us how sorry you are.

I’m a day late to this party but I wonder if there is any double counting going on with the donation money: Trump or another donor gives $500K to Trust A which turns around and gives $75K to Organization B. Total contributions, $575K, right?

This really looks a lot like a Ponzi scheme where the investors and regulators start to ask questions about the money and the schemer has to start moving money around and paying back small chunks in the hopes that it will quiet everyone down and give him more time. I wish I was gifted enough to embed a GIF of Bill…

I’m trying to figure out whether bonified was an intentional alternative spelling of bona fide but leading toward not. Because that brings a different picture to mind altogether.

“I’m not crying over their loss of the ability to pee standing up.” The statement was probably intended to help create a visual image of the extent of the damage rather than to stimulate tear ducts. If the deal were that the guy could have a sexually functioning penis but that he would have to pee seated for the rest…

“Someone who I won’t point you at so you can’t harass her.”

Is it a pathogen in the brain that causes someone to go off like this? Why would person A think it’s okay to insult person B’s career because person A doesn’t understand the concept behind person B’s article? For the record, Clover Hope raises a good question about the movie, and the interaction between the movie…

Thank you, Gene, for mentioning Nun’s Story. I expected to see “here I am a famous beauty playing a plain nun” but was blown away by her acting. The conflict was between her dedication to medicine and her dedication to the life of a nun and she made you see both.

I cut anyone who eats melons. I despise the smell of them. Otherwise, I’m very tolerant of other people’s eating preferences.

Let’s try to translate or maybe just restate this stupidly written letter. You, Owen, committed a crime. Other boys at your school in past years have committed the same crime and have gotten away with it. But you will be punished and you have already become a pariah, exposed nationally to the ire of millions. You may…