A TV writer shouldn't take pride in not knowing who a producer as successful as Allen is. His empire is aggressively uncool, but it's made him hundreds of millions.

The best leaf blower is a push broom. No noise pollution, no air pollution. Nothing ruins a nice autumn day like the sound of my neighbors blasting every, last leaf into the street.

The best leaf blower is a push broom. No noise pollution, no air pollution. Nothing ruins a nice autumn day like the…

Planned Parenthood doesn’t try to talk anyone into having an abortion. You’d know this if you’d ever visited one.

So, about a quarter of the time I order a sandwich without mayonaise, it comes slathered in white goo, but I’m the jerk for wanting to verify my order at the window instead of pulling over, checking then going into the restaurant (if I wanted to do that, I wouldn’t have used the drive-thru!) to remedy the situation if…

This lady seems horrible, but I don’t know why the article leads with John Rabe. If Oskar Schindler is a hero, so is he.

Mason, Michigan: the town that made Malcolm X decide white people were beyond hope.

LiAngelo Ball is a legal adult, so I don’t see why this is being framed as Lavar pulling him out of UCLA. He may have a lot of influence over his son, but he can’t legally pull him out of school. LiAngelo could stay if he chose to and he can transfer if he chooses to.

How do you accidentally step on the person? Do you walk around all day tossing your hat in the air like Mary Tyler Moore?

No, I got the point. I just thought it would be better-made if the article accurately represented Obama’s biography (a topic which, you rightly note, has been the subjects of all sorts of racist lies by the right).

Barack Obama didn’t grow up in Chicago. He moved there in his late twenties.

Trump wouldn’t have him: he’s a Democrat. I was particularly disappointed to see this, because he’s a former civil rights lawyer, generally liberal on racial issues, and the only progressive voice on the Ohio Supreme Court. He’s also a nice guy, but so are plenty of otherwise rational folks who are wilfully ignorant…

I built snow speed bumps in my subdivision to knock to mufflers off passing cars. My success rate was low, but I definitely got a couple.

Don’t forget the League of Women Voters. They are my go-to source for info on judges, local officials, and other down-ballot items.

Good lord, the last thing we need is more people with Bluetooth speakers attached to their bikes.

Good lord, the last thing we need is more people with Bluetooth speakers attached to their bikes.

My point was that I could see my 19-year-old self reading this article and seeing myself in it, then getting to the comment section and wondering what the point was of considering a new way of looking at the world if people in that tribe already thought I was a jerk for not coming around sooner. It would be great if…

It took me until I was twenty-four to realize I wasn’t a conservative even though, looking back, I’d already held mostly liberal views since early in my undergrad years. A big part of what kept me from identifying as a liberal earlier was the smug and dismissive attitudes of progressives who wouldn’t lower themselves…

First they came for the trilbys...

I withdrew my funds. I learned my lesson when I lost my poker money on Black Friday.

Men deciding what’s “unfair to women” is a pretty good working definition of sexism.

I used to work with a woman who claimed she decided to be a lesbian after being mistreated by a series of boyfriends. That's obviously not how most gay people see their sexuality, but it's a perspective that exists. I'm sure some people would argue this woman isn't really a lesbian so much as a disgruntled straight…