Thank you! I lived near a Mr. Softee stop for several years in NYC, and the jingle was INSANE. You cannot believe the headaches. The video above is not doing it justice. It’s a treacly, unrelentingly repetitive, piercing nursery rhyme, and I had to max out the volume on my TV to hear. It was out there for hours every…

MLK/RFK are really clear memories. There was so much going on beside that — local college riots, bombings, black church arson, Vietnam, etc., hard to say what was first.

OMG. Paul is dead?

I’d venture a good portion of the 3M votes weren’t won, but went to her by default. I only knew a handful of people who liked her or wanted her as president, yet all voted for her. If not for the fluke of being opposed by the worst miscreant candidate in the history of the country (who, by the way, she boosted as a…

Please, can we have an expert on the facial micro-expressions involved in guilty deception weigh in here?

Notice a common thread here: men raping. The comedian’s clearly stated goal is to flip the focus of awareness from the victims to the criminality of male perpetrators, yet you want to debate the relative harm done to victims on the basis of gender. No one disputes or ignores that men are also victims, but 90% of…

If you don’t already understand basic norms of civility and courtesy, then no, no one can really explain it to you.

Another irritating aspect of the “I like strong, smart women” pose is that it always seems to me to imply that there is a tremendous scarcity of such people, and “strong and smart” is a rare jewel, and the qualities are more of a trophy for the man because of its rarity. (e.g., he’s man enough for it; they’re as smart…

Oh, because attempting to humiliate a woman based on how you perceive her sexual worth is completely unrelated to sexual harassment? Only “hot chicks” are harassed?

A somewhat recent poll found that the majority of Trump voters were primarily motivated by keeping HRC out, not voting Trump in, and that the majority of HRC voters were motivated by keeping Trump out. Leaders are eager to blame and shame the apathy of the non-voters rather than the qualities of the candidates, but as…

Is this a back-handed attempt at scaring the left into arming themselves, thereby driving up sales?

RDJ’s talent is rooted in the intelligence he brings to his performances —matched with that face, he cuts to the bone. Chaplin was a revelation. Disappointed he sank to Iron Man, but the franchise riches couldn’t fall on a more talented actor.

Well, Joy Ann Reid of MSNBC was tweeting similar takes, claiming Sanders “owes his career” to the NRA. (Patently laughable claim — he has a D- rating.)

Good theory, but they are in Israel at this point.

Except the gender-studies testimony is not being offered as evidence of the specific man’s motive, but is instead being offered to define the nature and causes of the offense of gender (or sex)-based assault, and how the circumstances fit that definition. I don’t believe she is claiming expert evidence of the…

I know a number of older gay men who are absolutely, unequivocally offended by the use of the term “queer.” While millennials may feel they have “reclaimed” the insult of the slur, the people who actually grew up experiencing the slur, in a kind of anti-gay atmosphere that would be impossible for millennials to…

Are you talking about me? Nothing I said deserves an eyeroll. Also, I’m a woman.

Well, there were plenty of hostile, bullying HRC commenters as well, yet I don’t hold Hillary responsible for their actions, so I never understood that angle. I have followed Sanders career for decades, and have met him several times, and am convinced of his sincerity and commitment to social justice, so the…

I am not trolling. I can see you are frustrated, but, respectfully, I disagree with your characterization. As I said, Sanders was not involved in civil rights in the South, never claimed he was, never claimed to be a leader, so no one was “transparently” trying to re-write history there. Young online supporters were…

I respect John Lewis deeply, but what happened there was surprising. Lewis remarked obliquely that he had never met Sanders in the south during the Civil Rights era, in reaction to a memed photo of a college-age Sanders being dragged in handcuffs at a Chicago housing protest. (a la, “I don’t know her?”) Some…