And cops—stop tazering people. Or shooting them. Over dumb stuff.

Also, if you don’t need the space, but have plates, still don’t park in the space. I have relatives who think their tag makes it okay, even when the person the tag is for isn’t with them. Or the person is fine that day. No. People need those spaces.

Don’t park in handicap spaces unless you’re handicapped. Period.

Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell series is the first that comes to my mind. She’s a brilliant college age woman who apprentices Sherlock Holmes (as equals, not assists like Watson). It is told by her. I find her really annoying and unlikable, but my sister loves the series.

Small businesses like this are the worst. I worked for a large book publishing house for a few years before trying a small, storied house of seven employees that had been around for forty years. After getting there I found out few people lasted longer than two months as the founder/publisher was impossible. Jumping to…

Please don’t focus on internal government strife; it’ll be a male centered episode that I cannot imagine rising above any other male-dominated office intrigue show you can find on any other channel.

I don’t know if I consider Roiphe second wave feminism.

Can you put trailer links in your reviews? (or am I just missing them?)

A move to San Francisco showed me the greatness of the 10:00 am kick-off.

All I can hear is Dave Matthews Band.

I bought one pair of Brooks, and they fit oddly.

Douchebag is also sexist. Women wince when you use it. Stop using it.

We thought “learn to pedal, then balance”. Wrong! Our local bike shop even sold us on an expensive little bike our kid couldn’t use until he outgrew it. We learned our lesson and tried out some new things with the second kid. Some ideas to keep in mind:

I lost 30 lbs that needed to get lost because it told me which things I thought were good for me (raisins) were not great and other things were not as bad as I assumed. For that awareness alone, it was worth it.

The list is good, with some exceptions.

Unfortunately, the acts of review, critique and summary are thrown together under the title “review”.

I want Reid to win a damn Superbowl soooo bad.

True. It feels, though, as if it’s getting a bit preachy. A lot of the episodes that address real world problems really mine them for laughs while unpacking the issues (the reaction to the news that Junior is a Republican is hilarious (“He’s a publican? Serving drinks at an inn?”), as was Bow’s father taking credit…

They aren’t saying he’s a great quarterback or even a starting quarterback, just that teams are piling up and even starting much, much worse quarterbacks.

The Atlantic put out a big article that said the up was at 50. Pretty convincing.