Agreed on the T comment, but... The "shelter in place" part? Cops ordering people back indoors all over metro area, literally ordering businesses to close? That ain't transportation. That's top down.

Great piece - thanks! (I actually think the online feminist movement is doing very well, broadly speaking).

Yeah, it does have its moments - not quite the Russian roulette horror (which was really a metaphor anyway, however horrible) but still quite powerful. Your post was great 'cos it was instant outrage! Those are my fave....

That's very well said - Alderson doesn't share the passion. Omar, for all his faults (not saying the guy was perfect by any means) shared the fans' passion!

Yeah, go Blue Jays!

And what's their cost in reputation, JD? Has to be massive compared to keeping Reader going. Feels like pure arrogance to me.

Chris - very well said. I think people will be watching this film for decades to understand where the country went this last decade.

I'm not ridiculing Beyonce at all. She did her thing. But I think it's symbolic of where NFL culture - aka American culture, really - goes so far off the track. New Orleans is a culturally vital place and should have been recognized.

TK - yeah I agree with that, property was clearly included. And indeed, Emerson's work 80-90 years on (which I turn to again and again when considering this and 'American Dream' interpretations) also explicitly included property and commerce within the worthy goals of an American man (yes, men at that time, clearly). But the beauty of it all was the expressed freedom to pursue happiness beyond those old world limits - which in my perhaps idealistic reading, has always given us the opportunity to evolve, particularly in the area of civil rights.

TK - certainly I'm aware of it, and of a similar phrase in the Virginia convention's draft, which Jefferson leaned heavily on. Yet it's one of the great edits in human history, credited to Benjamin Franklin, and opened American intellectual horizons far beyond land and commerce (though of course, they did - and do - still dominate much but not all of the national conversation). It was Reagan's supremely conscious return to "property" upon his Saul-like conversion to a Republican and "conservative" (merely another role, of course, since he expanded government) that was aimed at that wide commercial stripe, so I can understand it as a maketing tactic by a master of that political skill. But 'pursuit of happiness' is clearly what the Declaration author and his committee intended, and meant. And I certainly have criticized Obama, here and elsewhere, on civil liberties. I just value a communitarian view of American society over the wasteland proposed by the Pauls.