As a child of the South, wearing & promoting the confed-flag seems almost as offensive & nihilistic to me as swastika regalia is to a German. The consequences of f-ing up the “Reconstruction” just never end :(.

Isn’t college sort of a last opportunity to be educated about the ways of adulthood? Disciplining the instigators—in theory—helps identify unacceptable behavior to those nasty little stormfronters & the student body at large before they go charging into the world as a fully grown public menace. Even a dreadful…

Na, my ‘rents were carefully raised to submerge any distinct cultural characteristics. Mom’s pink/Red Brooklyn Jewish family sent her to dictation classes each week, & in college she was baptized as a Presbyterian. Dad was born within spitting distance of Talahina, & so closely descended from the Choctaw nation, he…

But does their generosity re Lesbian Stuff really imply that Disney/ABC is a notably progressive network? Or, might the Carol trailer be a strange exception to the rule that most dudes have no problem at all with watching a pair of hot babes gettin’ it on...

Is human bio & anatomy education still put off until the onset of puberty? I’d hoped that by now, it’d be fairly standard to teach basic guts & gonads while children are still delighted to talk about ‘em.

Not to enter the disagreement, just expressing delight in Beautiful B’s costume pix.

Too late to the party as usual, but am a shameless fangirl of Frederick Douglass. His “escape” narrative might have been his runa-(ooops)-biggest best-seller, but Douglass’ intellectual genius, his long, influential career as activist & orator in the US & Europe, his support of woman suffrage... Yeesh, the man’s…

It’s Ai Weiwei w/Paris, so I’m cool with this. You do you, big guy.

Is there a petition to get a “No Means NO for Animals, too!” bill off the ground?

30-min lunches are Evil. Explaining the Facts of Downtown NYC Elevators to hourly staff in the 90s was painful: “it can take 10 mins to get down, & another 10 to go back up, so you better figure out where you’re going beforehand...”

In academic publishing, we waited ‘til 5pm on Fridays. One boss kept a litre of Scotch in her desk. It hit pretty hard, as most of us didn’t bother going out for lunch. Still: not taking regular lunch each day freed one for special occasions like, oh, 2-hour breaks in Bryant Pk after a nice blizzard...

Yes! Sampled & read Holly’s book after Jez readers mentioned they’d enjoyed it. Wasn’t as enlightening as, say, Monster of Florence (also recommended by Jez/Gawker commenters—& brilliant), but Holly’s account was filled with cool details & a startlingly feminist outlook. By the end, she’d earned a place on my…

It’s admirable—& HARD—but in small-world careers like theater at least, working with an ex can be a thing you just have to deal with if you want to work. Like, my mother had to be directed by my dad after they divorced—& act on the same stage with the actress/former family friend he’d left her for. So the women, at…

Please excuse the, uh, 5-days’ delay :\.

That would be a truly satisfying fairy-tale ending!

Are therapeutic support dogs no longer recognized? Pre-2001, a friend of mine took her dog on airlines, trains, etc, & city buses long after that. She trained him, her therapist wrote a letter, & the doggie aced a certification test administered by Delta Society. Your remark made me curious, & my search didn’t seem to…

Dunno. Do you think - maybe - that to this crowd Rubio might have sounded like a “college-boy/smarty pants” who was showin’ off to make them feel ignorant? Trump’s ‘reply,’ on the other hand, was convoluted enough to cloud the already dim minds of his followers.

A key issue to consider before supporting HRC as a candidate for well - anything - might be this: Hil was an ardent “Goldwater Girl.” She only switched parties after ‘68, when GOP moderates anointed Dick “Pinko-lover” Nixon.