Reminds me of those stories about hikers being found dead with water in their canteens. "I'm really thirsty now but...better save it for some undefined point in the future!"

I refuse to believe that this wasn't planned in advance, and that those two are not mega pervs.

Lol. Great minds!

Congrats on 23 years! Unrelated, did you name yourself after the Steve Martin movie?

I did skim it back when my local B&N still existed. My father read a ton of shit conservative books when I was a kid, and, well, I find shitty easy to read books comforting and life-affirming, I'm weird.

I think the article goes too far. I don't necessarily think it's fair to compare someone to someone they haven't invited a comparison to, and who had a completely different set of life experiences.

Let me try to express myself better since I genuinely appreciate your response.

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with it. But when you write a memoir at such a young age you naturally invite comparisons to other young memoirists, some of whom might have actually accomplished things.

I can't imagine being dumb enough to take a Sarah Palin endorsement seriously.

Same! I helped my wife out of her dress, helped her take all her bobby pins out, I carefully took off my tux (I bought that shit, not a rental), enjoyed a nice hot shower in the hotel, put on a robe, drunkenly talked about how awesome our friends are, passed out in robe, had to scramble to pack in the morning to get…

Shove your self-righteousness right up your ass

Yeah of course it's mean, I just don't think the comparison is unfair.

Yeah, hehe, well sorry about that I retracted it and wrote a real reply instead.

Oh don't be sanctimonious with your first two sentences.

This is true but on the flip side (i.e. the receiving end) I absolutely loathe perfunctory apologies. And qualified apologies. I do not accept qualified apologies.

Public figures don't need to "ask for" anything, that's what being a public figure means. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Oh wow I misread that then. Yeah this was in the early 90s. It seems like we've gotten more hysterical with kids. Not an original observation, I know.

That's true, but when a 9 year old writes that they want to commit suicide, I don't think there's any responsible scenario in which the parents aren't contacted.

When I was in 4th grade my teacher saw that I wrote "sometimes I want to commit suicide." I had no idea what that meant, I just saw the phrase "commit suicide" in a newspaper the week before. The teacher didn't even confront me-she called the principal after class and then the principal called my mom to say that I…

She clearly spends an inordinate amount of time making worst-case assumptions about the thoughts and behaviors of other people