Oh no. Cats are worse than kids. Kids want to please you, by and large. Cats expect to be pleased.

Ugh, you don't need to hit your kid to get them to behave. Just do what my mother did - passive-aggressive phrasing, gaslighting, and a heady blend of guilt and shame. It's that easy!

I feel like punishment options are nearly endless if you take into account physical labor. My parents had me doing my fair share of chores in the first place, and when I broke the rules I would have to pick up a chore they knew I hated or — even better — get resigned to some sort of Sisyphean errand. Examples: "Weed…

Thank you. I am so tired of the constant refrain that "today's kids are the most spoiled ever." (And the constant trotting out of that dreadful New Yorker article to support it.) From Hesiod to Bronte to Roald Dahl, people have been complaining about spoiled children and how they will ruin the future of the planet…

Children are smarter than you think. If you don't think you can sit them down, look at them in the eye, and talk to them, then you're the idiot. Even at two you can talk to them. I remember Oprah giving this tip a very long time ago on her show: "Lower your tone of voice when you reprimend them. Don't raise your…

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".

Fill them with existential dread that their lives are meaningless when they misbehave?

One time, I made eye contact with a black lady at the gym. I even smiled a little.

Racism is over!

Honestly, I gotta wonder: what has Dominos and other pizza chains done to help this situation? Surely they can choose to accept orders whose IP address matches that of the delivery area, and then require phone confirmation of those that don't. Yes, people can spoof IP addresses, but it would cut down on the casuals…

"More then 2hours and no tweet about all the shit weve [sic] done," one complained.

I went though this with an ex several years ago, which I shared a while ago under an old Jez handle. What's infuriating is how people hide behind the ambiguity of the internet to harass an intimidate. In the case of my ex, who was always something of a wannabe writer, I got many threats masked in "writerly"…

!!! I sang in a performance of Aida with Latonia Moore and she was absolutely incredible. I don't even have the words to describe how awesome she was.

I'll give this to you with as much pertinent information as possible because I work full time in the opera industry:

Isn't it fun when people call you names for just being? Great piece.

Maybe it's cool if you sing it in Italian. "Vaffancuuuuuuulo!"

My opinions comes from a lifetime of living with & around terrible parents.

Thank you so much for this incredibly insightful comment about parents and parenting. All too often, we get trained by society to view our parents as kind, wonderful people who have our best interests at heart. When actually, that is very often not the case. And you're right, many parents are not fundamentally good…

Good god. They kept those Ferraris in a garage that had snow shovels and bicycles in it. I'm amazing they didn't lay boxes of Christmas decorations on them.

I harp on this but people who are like "Family is the most important thing" really either have the best family or are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

The players association at some point desperately needs to create a policy that does not allow for this type of arrangement. Something needs to be done with professional players contracts to not allow people to screw them over just because they don't know better. If a player blows all their money on hookers and booze,…