I love Emily Nussbaum. I look forward to the New Yorker every week because of her and Sacha Frere-Jones. For anyone who thinks of the New Yorker as snooty publication, don't think of it as the Stranger from New York.

put a period after don't.

Very much not part of the discussion, but all babies should be named "Anaheed" for a generation.

If the proper way to respond to somebody who doesn't own a tv is to start acting like a smug asshole about owning one, then I've seen that played out a million times before on the internet.

"Or they say something weird and insulting about TV, like, “Oh my god, how do you watch all that TV without going brain-dead?”"

That's not insulting - it's a compliment.

Interesting that women are emotionally labile as adolescents and men are at middle age. Immaturity is a privilege.

@1: think of it as the Stranger from New York.

OMG, that is so not what the New Yorker is.

The New Yorker is where you'll find thoughtful, original, and nuanced writing from country's most intelligent and talented writers.

In it's hey-day, The Stranger was a charming bunch of ragamuffins and smart-asses. Now, it's mostly a bunch of undistinguished hacks bludgeoning their readers to death with social justice opinions cut-and-pasted from the Women's Studies curricula of our nation's tier-3 universities.

Notable exceptions are:
1) the music department, who are still a charming bunch of ragamuffins and smart-asses
2) Dan Savage, who actually has the smarts and originality to publish in the New Yorker (has that happened yet?)
3) Charles Mudede, who, say what you will about him, is one of kind

Young women and old men are natural allies.

But society spends scads of energy trying to prevent that from happening.