Can't beat the man for logic. face it, folks. How can a liberal make it in this world with Zyskandars all over the place?

"Waugh was always mistaking the elite for the elect"....a phrase pretentious! Mr Bayard, some of your readers may not have spent a few years consuming the volumes of the Waugh. I am not sure you have, either. The book, at least, makes it somewhat obvious that Ryder is both taken with and astounded by the culture of the Marchmains.

Ryder's father was hilarious. When I saw the preview, all I could think was that i couldn't wait to spend 8 bucks to watch a 10 minute bit of Mr Ryder Sr. go passive aggressive to get his own som out of the house. The rest of the book was dulllldrums.

Do YOU think it's funny that a man come a cropper?

Yet another case of people needed to create oversight for something that affect almost no one. This is a typical case of seemingly liberal people (as I am one) needed to exercise their moral indignity over the heathens. Frankly, it is not as if that many people are on the phone all the time.

Further, it is not as if all roads are equal. Would one accept passing the law on highways, but not on city streets? Frankly, I see no reason why someone can't operate a phone while navigating the grid system at 15 miles per hour.

Moreover if the discussion is regarding using parts of your brain, then headsets solve nothing.... and then this would extend to having ANY conversations while driving, including with passengers.

As a city-dweller who had the decency to move out of the stix and pony up the cash so I can use public transportation perhaps the 'too many people are dying' folks would consider that in order to save lives, perhaps people should drive less. CA would provide far more safety by taxing its citizens for every mile they drive over a certain amount... I have been to California, and its citizens hop in the car at any given moment. A car ride across town for ice cream is not necessary if one was out 3 hours earlier buying groceries or coming home from work. I'd like to see a little more intrusion on THESE aspects of public health as all this driving is a health risk by numbers AND pollution.

But he is still going to have to actually pay me to listen to that garbage.

Nice fielding of your business idea, but:

A) cell phones

B) spouse isn't going ask what hotel you are in.... for to look it up anyway? Even back before I had a cell phone, many years back, it wasn't as if I left the house and said "Sweetie, here in the phone number of the hotel." You might do that with a child... MAYbe

That whole idea is absurd.

But he and, indeed, Tucker 'Bowtie' Carlson, I have often found to be reasonable in discourse. While both are much derided by my fellow liberals, it is undeniable that they are both capable of engaging their opponents in a manner which reconizes the other opinion as well as the potential pitfalls of their own positions and reason.

what are your problems? This item was meant to be funny, and it sort of is. I'm no believer at all, but this snarky, looking down your nose is somewhat obnoxious. you look rather silly yourselves tsk-tsking something that was clearly intended to be humorous. It is as if your are trying to prove the right wing's insane assertion that liberals hate and oppress religion as a matter of course.

Why in the world do people keep insisting that PA is a 'swing' state... it is not my any stretch of the imagination. I live (t)here and I have not one shred of doubt that PA will vite democratic.

I expected it to be a bit silly and off, but I certainly didn't expect the vile littany of racial epithets, confirmed at "150 f*cking percent, you whore!!" It wasn't even accurate; I just happen to be attracted to such people.

while I throw up in my mouth a little."

Say it. SAY IT!!!

A) Pompous

B) Self-important

C) Presumptuous

D) Judgmental

E) All of the above

I myself thought this was a sort of a pointless article, in which TCF seems to think casual sex is something new. The excessive bluster DOES sort of come off as bragging, and there is something grating about women and men who feel the need to proclaim their sexual openness. Nevertheless, tinwoman has aspired to grand new heights of irrelevant self-importance.

Did I say presumptuous? You don't have any idea what my sexual behaviour has been, nor do I ever recall any of these 'sneers' that you cite. If you must know, I am a relationship person.

Anyway, I think it is pretty obvious that your characterizations are based on schemas you have little ability to compromise on. Just because someone engages or has engaged in casual sex does not mean they are banging the 'whole football team' and dripping crabs as you say. You make a lot of assertions about what these people are like without recognizing that there is spectrum of behaviours. You are very clearly passing judgment. IN my experience, whether one was a serial dater, a long term relationship gal/guy or a flitting sexual butterfly does not predict the grown adult you will be. There are just as many poorly adjusted people who disavowed the so-called 'hook up' regimen.

I'm okay, you're okay!

Indubitably, there are going to be mistakes when too much booze is involved.

Now, at any rate, after all this talk of getting liquored up and having sex.... I'm off to the bar!

Good evening all!

Is that syllabucks is a complete tw*t. When you go around acting like one, you know the baggage that comes along with it!