I can confirm that. If the girl lived at home, a date was expected to ring the doorbell, and come in to meet at least one of the parents before leaving with her. Those were the rules. No pulling up into the driveway and honking the horn!

I met Wilbur Mills once! I was a little kid who entered a school essay contest on the topic of social security and won some kind of certificate he handed out at the state capitol. I thought at the time he looked like one of the taxidermied animals some of my hunting relatived kept mounted on their walls. I was too…

Shop around - you can find it online for less than $15/yd.

I don’t agree that pressure on middle class makes it essential to buy cheap sweat shop goods. Those clothes are made with textiles that don’t hold up well with wear or cleaning, and are typically constructed with the quickest cheapest techniques. They don’t last and have to be replaced. If we all regardless of…

If you’ve ever lived in an old house the closets were tiny. When that house was built people bought clothes that were made in US garment factories from textiles made in US mills. Clothes were relatively expensive and most people had maybe several good outfits. Now it’s all cheap imports from sweat shops and big…

Selvage denim, not all demim. And the article kind of hedged on whether Cone is the last or just the last major factory making it. With selvage denim getting the rep in mainstream of being high quality in recent years, some factories started to make lower quality versions for mass market. Still, Cone going away is…

Japan has a long tradition of making absolute top quality natural fiber fabric for both domestic and export markets. They’ve got know how, commitment to quality, and the equipment. Also high costs. I’m with you - I don’t see how they can do it and we can’t.

Interesting how you say that these precautions would be “bad for women”. If a man such as yourself were a job applicant or sales rep that needed to meet a woman in her office, your rules would hurt you. Somehow I don’t think you’d show up with a body cam and ask for a chaparone when your livelihood depended on being…

When men say they are worried they can’t “speak to women” anymore it’s a cover for a backlash. They know perfectly well what is sexual assault and harassment - they could recognize it in a second if their daughter or sister or wife were subjected to it. They prefer to imply that women are over-reacting or just plain…

The pattern of behavior here is so weird. It seems he just pounces on more or less random people who have shown no interest in him, and when they fight him off he gets mad and leaves. I don’t get it.

Do you have statistics to back up this assertion, or do you just “know it”?

I see only one comment here written by someone who belonged to a sorority or fraternity, so let me share an actual lived experience.

There was a time when people named their pampered house cats after wines or perfumes.

Yes, Corey Stoll was terrific, so much so that I could hardly stand to see what happened to his character. You knew it would end badly for him, but still .....

Perhaps I should have said “careful with his money” instead of “cheap.” Cheers!

It seems plausible if he fell onto his lawnmower when he was tackled. The part I have trouble with is that a sudden physical attack would have been motivated just by politics. There has to have been some ongoing feud, or maybe the anesthesiologist was self medicating?

I’ve never met a Libertarian that wasn’t cheap. Rand wasn’t going to pay a guy $40 to mow his lawn.

Neither do I. But it isn’t possible to get thru your days thinking of all men as being like that, so I don’t and won’t. Cheers!

Speaking for myself, as a woman, is that this case, where it is - for now - words only, provokes a strong response because Taibbi is an intelligent and thoughtful guy who is fighting the good fight on issues I care about. If he harbored these vile, intensely misogynistic views - or at minimum saw entertainment and…

The women that he wrote about should be contacted and if it turns out what he claims is fiction is non-fiction, Taibbi is done. But he’s not an over-rated hack.