She is an attractive young woman in a T-shirt with a saying that you have to look at her breasts to read. AND she's probably announcing to the world that she's horny.

Cary is turned on to her. That's why he would let her get away with it. And in fact he waxes eloquent about the crushing burden of the workplace in a nice little essay. I can see Cary impressing her with this speech, all the while looking at her T-shirt as much as possible without being too obvious about it.

C'mon, admit it. I might be the same way. We men are like that. Attractive young women always get a pass.

Like another commenter said, a guy who wore an analogous T-shirt and who made it known he was waiting for a divorce, would not get the same treatment from Cary, or the same lack of concern from the supervisor.

The EPA, OSHA, and other things were half-measures designed to steal liberals' thunder. It de-fanged their arguments against him in a (successful) attempt to get the votes of moderates. In later years Reagan could ride roughshod over these programs and work unabashedly in favor of polluters. But in Nixon's time it wasn't politically possible to do that.

If any of these programs actually WORKED, though, that would get Nixon's ire. He booted Walter Hickel, his Interior Secretary, after it became clear that Hickel was serious about protecting the environment.

Other half-measures were the wage and price freeze of 1971 and the proposal of a guaranteed income. It's on record that he told his advisors the income proposal was just a political tactic and he hoped that it wouldn't get approved by Congress (as it didn't, Congress being dominated by conservative Democrats in those days).

Finally, he was the first in a now unbroken line of Republican presidents who incurred record budget deficits. Fiscal 1969, LBJ's last year, saw a surplus. Since then, every Republican president has set record deficits, and the two Democratic presidents brought the deficit down (in Clinton's case, eliminating it entirely).

Excellent, Cary.

Jesus! All he said was that LW has pretty eyes. So this means he's a predator, a power tripper, a vicious closet case . . . If the LW was as prickly as the commenters here, his co-worker would soon learn to just stay the hell away from all gay people and by all means don't be nice to them. Way to go!

Maybe I'd use a different word -- like "good looking" instead of pretty -- but actually most men are NOT Budweiser guzzlers with a deep fear of being gay and a mortal fear of personal contact. As a straight man I DO occasionally compliment friends on their appearance. I have said, "You have good looking eyes." I'd be more likely to say this if the guy was gay -- my gaydar is pretty good -- because I think a gay man would probably be less uneasy about it.

But if, as it appears, I'm wrong at least about complimenting one's eyes, and these are "mating words" among gay men, then the LW has to make this known to his co-worker. Being a thoughtful fellow, LW can probably think of a way to do this. It's best if he makes it quick and short -- i.e., DON'T take the co-worker aside, speaking in hushed tones, etc., because that makes it sound like he committed some grave offense. Just simply say, "You know, among gay men, those are 'mating words'. I appreciate the compliment, but just so you know . . . Did you see those files that were just here . . .?"

This is an apt quote.

Methamphetemaine was indeed in wide use during the '60s, and was indeed part of the drug culture. I was pretty young then but I remember two things:

1) The headline "Give Me Librium or Give Me Meth", an article about young people's drug use.

2) Hearing that Roger Daltrey's stuttering on "My Generation" was meant to mimic someone on crystal meth. At least that was the story going around at the time.

What Villemar said. Cut the '60's crap already. It was 40 YEARS AGO!!

Money gotten because a family member has died is called (in this country) "damages for wrongful death" and is routinely available in our legal system as well as many others.

Cy Young won 511 games. I think you'll agree that's out of reach, because we're not about to return to a two-man or three-man rotation.

There will be more 300 game winners if current trends reverse, managers no longer pay attention to pitch counts, and are willing to consign the current corps of setup men, 7th innning men, 8th inning men, and closers, to unemployment.

There will be another 300 game winner if and ONLY if all that happens. Let's say the next three hundred winner can get there on only 400 decisions. This would make his record 300 - 100, easily breaking Whitey Ford's record for best winning percentage by a pitcher with more than 200 wins.

Over the past 30 years, only 6 pitchers have had as many as 400 DECISIONS, let alone victories. (Glavine, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Jack Morris and Dennis Martinez.) (See the search engine at www.baseballmusings.com in the entry on Glavine.) So under current practice, there will be only about 6 such pitchers every 28 years. Is there any chance that one of these will also win 300? I suppose. But he would have to be the most durable and dominating pitcher in the history of baseball.

I'm with dawdler. Leave her alone, O.K.?

And Garry Owen, Tough Guy . . .

What if the media made a big deal of YOUR daughter's personal opinions?

What?

You say she doesn't deserve such an invasion of privacy?

Well neither does Giuliani's daughter.