...he's so cute when he's wrong.

...she was only coming out publicly as a lesbian.

Deval Patrick was just joking (as fathers will) about the cost of a wedding.

Let's hope that sooner than later ALL parents in ALL states can make the same corny joke.

As I'm sure Ms. Havrilesky would attest, she did not coin the term "cheftestant." That's the handiwork of Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic (aka "Keckler"), TWoP recapper, food writer, blogger, cheesemonger, and cook.

Unique goodness from the late, great Harry Nilsson.

P.S. @HoneyBeeMarie: before you chastise contributors on their child-unfriendly choices, you might want to revisit your all-but-porn-title spelling of "Bed Nobs & Broomsticks"... which actually made me laugh out loud in its inadvertent hilarity. God bless, and THANK YOU!

While I agree with your defense of "Little Mermaid" and "Pocahontas" (which were both terrific), I can't support the disparaging of "Mom and Dad Save the World."

I originally saw the movie only because it was assigned to me at work (for closed-captioning/subtitling), but it is surprisingly entertaining, well-structured, and very, very funny... and it actually puts forth several gentle lessons about how to be a decent human being (not to mention the wonderful fact that a then 45-year-old Teri Garr was the main love/lust interest).

We could do a lot worse by our kids.

...you're a professional; there is a difference.

As a professional in another (TOTALLY non-athletic) field-- one in which others engage to one degree or another nearly every day-- I understand your frustration.

BUT... everyone who ever made the cut for the team (or got the lead in the play, or garnered an excellent review for his/her musical solo, etc.) feels a part of his/her community, and watches the Olympics/Wimbledon/Tonys/Oscars/Grammys with a bit more investment than the average citizen.

I know these people are still "amateurs" to you (and they absolutely are, no question), but I think it's important that you acknowledge that their personal connection makes them part of your community, and that connection inspires a HUGE part of the support and enthusiasm you and other professional athletes receive.

This is not a small thing.

There's a wonderful line from a little-seen (yet award-winning) Showtime movie starring Forest Whitaker, Kathy Baker, and Jeff Goldblum ("Lush Life"). Whitaker and Goldblum are close friends and hard-scrabble, working musicians, though it's obvious that Whitaker is the genius of the two. In a to-the-camera "interview," Goldblum's character acknowledges this fact, but makes a point of reminding us that "There is a place in this world for those of us who are merely... excellent."

Jennifer Sey, you are/were an athletic genius. Relax and allow that, if it weren't for the "merely" talented/gifted/excellent, there would be no well from which the geniuses could spring.

P.S. It's under "wraps," not "raps." (Gee... guess what MY professional snobbery is...)

...pursue their interests/dreams/talents/vocations/callings/careers/hobbies, whether they include baking cupcakes, holding public office, arc welding, raising children, or anything else, for that matter.

And REAL feminists don't waste time picking apart the "correctness" of what women choose to do.

I loved George Carlin (though he got less funny and sorta hateful post 1980... on stage, at least); I loved Bill Hicks (though he was AWFULLY self-important at times); and I love Denis Leary (though he can, from time to time, buy into his own shtick).

Leary doesn't plagiarize Hicks. An "angry" persona is not exclusive, new, or subject to patent laws. Hicks worshippers need to get over themselves. Leary is doing Leary, NOT Hicks.

I'm just amazed at the vitriol here in the letters. Not a feminist? Please. Look at behavior, not rhetoric (which, by the way, isn't really sexist, either): Leary and his wife have been married forever, he's a devoted husband and father; he has many female friends (yes, JUST friends); and he supports female comics WAY above and beyond professional courtesy.

I'm just not getting what all the hate is about...

...amen, and amen!

Today weed; tomorrow prostitution! There's absolutely NO rational defense for "vice" prohibition (which has been proven, over and over and over again, to be ineffective).

As a state and as a nation, we should be benefiting from the potential tax dollars that are currently going into the pockets of creeps and criminals, foreign and domestic.

REALITY-- it's what's for dinner!

Wow. I hereby apologize for ever thinking he was a lightweight dork. I'd only ever seen him hit the standard tourist crap on TV shows from a million years ago (never read his books).

My local public radio station just started carrying his travel show (a travel show? on radio? yeah, it actually works, surprisingly enough), and I've found it VERY compelling.

Cool dude. I'd happily hang with him in Ireland, Iran, Italy, or pretty much anyplace else.

Thanks for the article!

...let's give "equal time" to Flat Earth theory science classes.

I'm with Fran Lebowitz on this issue: I'll support prayer in school the day they teach algebra in church.