Recently, I wrote about entitlement and self esteem. I didn’t write about the dark side of entitlement. Brock Turner. That’s the kind of entitlement where you use other people for your own kicks. Where you don’t even bother to consider the people around you, nor think of treating them with even basic respect. Except I…
When I first saw images of The Gates (more than 10 years ago?! I can’t believe it!), I thought: “Wow, that is beautiful.” Last night, seeing The Floating Piers, I thought: “God, can we fly to Italy? Can we go there, today?” (This was, of course, after thinking: “Wow”.) We can’t – it’s not in the…
How Barack Obama got through this without cracking a smile, I do not know. So cool! Ooh! Like ice. Could you have done it without cracking? Are you cool?
In light of Gawker’s bankruptcy, I read an old New Yorker profile of Peter Thiel. This stuck out: Thiel believes that education is the next bubble in the U.S. economy. He has compared university administrators to subprime-mortgage brokers, and called debt-saddled graduates the last indentured workers in the developed world, unable to free themselves even…
Friends, I’m going to share this with you because you’ve been good, very good. You keep coming and reading my thoughts on all sorts of serious, ugly things. This is not ugly – not at all. I know you’re thinking: you already know what time of year June is. June is the start of summer,…
On a recent episode of The Mindy Project, Jody (one of the characters) tells Mindy that he doesn’t think of her as being Indian: “Honestly, I think of you as a white man, largely because of your entitlement.” I laughed, then gasped. Eureka!: “Oh God, I have that entitlement! That’s it!” You guys, this explains…
My husband watches the fights; I don’t. I went to join him once after he’d watched a set of UFC fights with friends, and caught the last one accidentally – I’d hoped to miss them all. It was awful. So bloody. Seeing these young men give each other brain injuries for our enjoyment? It reminds…
A rhetorical question: I don’t care if I should be ashamed. (An aside: do you think I’m enjoying it as much as his exes? As Winona? That’s also rhetorical: if I’m Winona Ryder, I’m cackling with glee at all of this. If I were Winona Ryder, I’d be so deep into the Google right now,…
One of my close friends recently watched Tiny Furniture. When she told me, I paused: “What did you think?” She (hesitant): “It was good.” Me: “I thought it was so painful. Oh my God.” She: “So painful!” The film, which some have described as a comedy, follows the young Aura as she flounders around New…
One night this week, we had Mediterranean-inspired quinoa bowls, which I first saw on Pinterest by way of Pinch of Yum. I don’t do the red pepper sauce – instead I just stir store-bought pesto into the hot quinoa. I highly recommend: both easy and delicious, particularly if you keep pesto, cucumber, and feta in…
