Originally Posted by robustpuppy (Post 408689)

Next gift I send you will be vodka and some grippy stuff to put on the bottom of your slippers.

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 408747)

I think your mistake is in thinking that you get some hand in choosing the nickname. Typically (but not always) those come from other posters' references or are handed out by others based on embarrassing facts that you have posted about the person. Not that GGG's help with chimney sweep (ugh!) is entirely your fault, but LMA is absurd and stupid and you coined that one all on your own.

It all feels forced.

Originally Posted by robustpuppy (Post 408689)

Next gift I send you will be vodka and some grippy stuff to put on the bottom of your slippers.

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 408740)

This is slightly redundant of what others have already said, but this Slate piece makes the point that Tiger's story was controlled by laws that compel officers to make arrests for DV even when no victim makes a complaint. Hanna Rosin appears to believe that the ridiculousness results from the gender neutrality with which these laws were written, and that the fix is that they should be interpreted to apply only when the abuser is a man, or perhaps only where the context indicates a coercive relationship.

I'm inclined to believe these "must arrest" laws should be repealed outright. I'm uncomfortable with the idea that the solution to intractable relationship problems with troubling power dynamics is to disempower the victim further by removing any control she has over her victimhood. I don't think it's empowering for women to declare them victims and assume their ability to truthfully report their experience and condition is compromised. It's infantilizing, and it victimizes many women further to haul off the person who is, though an unworthy partner in the eyes of college-educated middle class liberals, still often better than no partner at all. We've substituted our collective judgment that a victim of DV should have all her decisions made for her. Meanwhile, many times what they are doing is collecting every penny of their own monetary resources to go downtown to bail the man out so he shows up to work the next morning and doesn't get fired and cost the family their home. It's a shitty situation made shittier by half-baked notions of people who have a much better idea of what it's like to be a woman but absolutely no idea what it's like to be poor, or worse, a single mother with no childcare options during working hours. It's like the police are asked to pat the woman on the head and tell her she's really better off without him, and won't you please shut up if you disagree? How is that empowering?

Anyway, just needed to vent that this Tiger absurdity is the natural consequence of a social policy that demands to be measured by its good intentions rather than any more useful metric, like whether it actually causes or exacerbates the suffering of real human beings who deserve to have a say in the fate of their families.

Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 408741)

I like pie.

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 408743)

I, too, hate the name "LMA," as luckiest man alive is really a title. I will happily entertain replacements. I am leaning toward "ex/con" but perhaps Mr. Tuesday better identifies him.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by dtb (Post 408627)

Among my younger boys "wished for" items:

Ninja stuff
Farting Machine
A cape



WTH? When their father was reading the list to me, I laughed at "a cape" and asked whether it was for his evenings out at the OP-era -- such as La Boheme. He thought maybe he was going for the Monopoly guy look.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408648)

Image tarnished. After everyone knows he has a crazy wife who smashes cars with golf clubs and hits him when she's angry, he just another schmoe with a lot of money.

I didn't say he would crash to Earth.

TM

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 408769)

This is my favorite comment so far on the whole debacle:

Originally Posted by ltl/fb (Post 408765)

Anyone have any clue how to gift someone something on Kindle?

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 408769)

This is my favorite comment so far on the whole debacle:

1. Men think with their dicks. Woods is married to a Swedish model. Yet the National Enquirer is reporting that he cheats on her, especially with one named woman. (This has caused every sports message board in the world to have a post from someone oh-so-knowingly saying "Show me the hottest woman in the world, and I'll show you someone who's sick of putting up with her shit." This post is usually written by a 320-pound sweatpants-wearing Cheetos-scarfer who hasn't known the touch of a woman since that one party 18 years ago. He still googles the girl's name every month or so.)

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 408738)

The only guy who remained consistently hysterical and edgy to the end was Carlin. He actually got better with age. But he was an odd one.

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 408753)

I am amending my hanukkah list this year to:
Slippers
Vodka