The Silence

I stumbled upon this lovely Guardian piece about the all-too-common online dating phenomenon known as The Silence. After experiencing being ignored a couple of times, it kind of felt that this was just the way it was done. An unwritten code of accepted rudeness that you probably wouldn’t apply in other aspects of your life – unless you were a …

Same-sex “political” wedding?

Most of you guys know I’m a bit of an advice column nerd. Miss Manners has long run columns in both MSN and The Washington Post, but neither source publishes an RSS feed so I sometimes get behind on her corpus. (Prudie and Dan, on the other hand, do a great job with RSS, even if Prudie’s Slate feed incorporates …