I know there are secret codes, but how do I get Netflix to just show me a different list than what it THINKS I want to watch.

To me, the fix for the decline of American manufacturing is to produce and promote quality goods. Darn Tough Socks in Vermont, for example, makes a product that LASTS so I’ll spend their ridiculous price because the value is better than six pairs of cheap foreign tube socks.

Do women really jump from perfume to perfume so much?

I really like gas-station hot dogs. My occasional visits to Cumberland Farms for fuel, a huge drink and two dogs (2 for $2.50) is a special treat. My local Home Depot and Costco also serve ones that are heaven.

As a child I never appreciated Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, or Marvin the Martian. As an adult, they are my favorites.

As a middle school teacher, I spend all year breaking assumptions about gender and general assumptions about ability. Here’s how I do it:

I (white male, 51) have always been aggressive when the limits of my ability don’t match what, in my mind, I know can be done. So, defending the key in basketball, I’ll instinctively stick out my knee to trip-up someone who is seamlessly going around me. Dangerous.

Okay, Comrade.

The “No means No” anti-date rape campaign was in full swing when I was in college. It was a pretty clear line drawn at a time when “she was drunk” was made okay in every teen movie out there. And I saw attitudes of my male friends begin to change. Then Camille Paglia came out breaking it down with the nuance of an…

Hats are a fascinating part of the dress code we have at both the school I teach in and my son’s school (K-8, K-6, respectively).

As a 51 year old white male, I am horrified and embarrassed (and not surprised) that Desantis is wearing a blue blazer and khakis for this embarrassment of a talk. Clearly, he’s still dressing like his mom dressed him, and expressing childish half-thoughts he heard his dad spout at the television news. Grow up, or at…

GOAT soccer (futbol): Pele. Like Jordan, he changed the game.

After the election, my wife asked me how Trump would effect us (white, solid middle class, late 40s with two boys, living in Vermont). “It won’t affect me much at all,” I told her. “You, just less hope that things will get better over time for things you care about.”

The heart loves what the heart loves, and you gotta embrace it.

Someone was raised right. Good on those boys.

I would ask for how “universally loved” is defined?

No. This is how women’s rights have always been stopped: Slow down, ladies. It’s always been uttered by so-called allies, and it has never worked.

The video keeps me in. How can I access Amazon Prime video options without Prime?  That’s the tipping point for me, as Netflix and Hulu also have just enough content to keep me in.  $120 a year is $10 a month, so about the same but with shipping benefits.

People fear efficiency, as it can lead to Nazi level horrors as easily as German soccer success. But within good, moral efficient systems people make choices that are human and benefit the group.  I have not ready any reports from New England Patriot players who call Belichick racist, but plenty of people outside the…

Even if you hate soccer, you had to be impressed with it. And yes, that’s what she said. And no, that didn’t make any sense.