Everyone should read Kipnis’ article before commenting. I was sympathetic before I read it. Her tone is mocking (and she even admits it). She gives a long paragraph of detail about the alleged sexual assault, again in a mocking tone. She completely dismisses the idea that there might be coercion involved in a…

I looked at the pictures and I think it’s boring. I would much rather see something wilder and less kempt (not a word, I know: more unkempt). I would rather live on the edge of woods than have all those stiff gardens.

A teenage friend of my daughter nearly died from a Tylenol overdose. I don’t know the details, but it was bad. It is shocking that most people don’t know how dangerous Tylenol is.

“I don’t think you understand how to logic, good sir.” Brilliant.

My father loved music. Early on it was Merle Haggard, Willie and Waylon. Also Neil Diamond. Those bring back memories. He went through an Alan Parsons Project phase (yuck) and Jackson Browne. I told a friend I used to love Jackson Browne and he said, “Were you depressed?” Much later, he was into Leonard Cohen and, in…

No matter what the boys did, unless they were threatening to kill the people in the house, they shouldn’t have been shot. We have police, courts, and the rule of law to handle crime. They didn’t deserve to be killed without a full investigation of what happened. It seems like the discussion about racism, which is…

I read all the links and checked out the info they contained. I find them very unconvincing. The Forbes article is clearly biased since they reference Bruce Ames. Dr. Winter (UC Davis) doesn’t have a list of publications or any indication of who is funding him on his website. There’s a lot of stuff about how he is the…

Sigh. Another health concern where the science is going to be disputed. The reason it will be disputed is because of money. Let’s check your sources. The Skin Cancer Foundation has this long list of corporate sponsors: http://www.skincancer.org/about-us/corpo…

I know that there is something going on that allows commercial property owners to charge too-high rents. This has had the effect, in my neighborhood, of driving out an awesome used bookstore, a great antique store, and more. They were replaced by a payday loan place or remained empty. I don’t know what zoning, tax,…

I lived in New Jersey from 85-91 and went into NYC frequently. We were students and we frequented Greenwich Village, some bars that I don’t remember the name of, cheap Indian restaurants, and enjoyed weird shops (a basket shop) and junk being sold on the street. Sad to think that that vibe is leaving or gone.

There was an awesome knitting store that produced a book (somewhere in California). They went out of business because of rising rents. When the 2008 crash hit, a lot of storefronts went empty in my mid-sized southern city and I heard stories before and after of ridiculous rents. If the owners can keep the rent high…

An $11,000 giraffe store was priced out of the real estate market in NYC. That’s a pretty sad sign of how things are going.

It’s very convenient for the companies that programmers tend to be libertarian. I believe a proper role for government is to enact and enforce labor laws that balance the right to earn money with the right of workers to have decent conditions. There ought to be overtime pay. People who are categorically opposed to…

I don’t really believe in “good” and “bad” Muslims or anything; that’s why I put it in quotiation marks. I wasn’t suggesting that we put more pressure on Muslims to speak out against terrorism. I was wondering why we don’t see calls for white men to speak out against rape and other sins usually committed by white men.

Why don’t the “good” white men speak up about the “bad” ones? We’ve played that game with Muslims. It’s only fair that white people get it now.

We were at Christmas about 7 years ago and they were drinking and someone said, “Remember that time your brother almost called DCS on your mom? Wasn’t that funny!” And I said, “I don’t remember that.” And my brother said, “It was because she wouldn’t buy us food.” Step-father: “Why should she, you wouldn’t clean your…

Totally agree about other people making you feel like you are the bad one because who would disconnect from their mother? Some people trivialize it by saying “All families are crazy” or “There are no normal families”. Listen. There are pretty healthy families out there. And incredibly damaging ones. It’s a spectrum.…

I was left in the car a lot when I was about 5th grade or so. I don’t remember before that. I could have gone into the grocery store, but I didn’t want to. I whiled away the time by inventing a way to play solitaire with a piece of paper and a pencil. Future math nerd!

I love love love guacamole. One time I was eating (drinking) at a ChiChis in New Jersey (many many years ago) and they told me they didn’t have any guacamole. I must have looked pretty sad because the waitress came back a few minutes later, saying she “found” some. Do I want guacamole that someone “found” somewhere in…

What about at the end where he says, sarcastically, something like “you’ll get to invade Iran and Pakistan...” and she says, “No, we won’t”. That one moment made me think that she was literally pro-invasion and 100% knew what she was doing when she did it. They’re pushing for war and the only thing she regrets is that…