Michael Ann Dobbs's discussions

I was 7 in ‘89 when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was released. So I totally understand where you are coming from. I saw Star Wars for the first time on television a few years later and as much as I loved it (it was my favorite movie for four years, between Casablanca and Mulan), I still find Dr. Jones’… Read more

Also, double barrel shotguns give you options in a self defense scenario! The first barrel can be loaded with birdshot as a sort of “aggressive warning” and the second with buckshot to actually injure. Read more

Actually probably not. Kids in the first three years of life are working on emotional attachment and safety. Being taken to foster care may well damage these kids sense of a safe world beyond repair. Even if neither remembers the shooting, they have learned that their parents cannot keep them safe or even keep them at… Read more

This article at The New Yorker is a really great summation of allergy science up to 2011. It includes the early stages of research on curing allergies. Read more

Easy solution: bring back gloves as a regular accessory! Read more

Actually, if you are working on location and doing auditions — like actual auditions where an actor or actress is asked to act out the most emotionally heightened scene that is in the film — it would be extremely unprofessional (nay, cruel) to do this in public like at a coffee shop. The problem is, acting auditions… Read more

You must just follow the more accurate rumor spreaders out there. Read more

I just wanted to come back and say, yes, you were right, Ryan was looking for a way out. Read more

Regarding your point on white privilege (which is really good and I would subscribe to your newsletter), did you ever read Peggy Macintosh’s original paper (“Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”)? It’s where the term came from. It’s weird because she uses it almost exclusively to talk about social interactions and… Read more

Ok, I’m white, but the only person I know who makes yellow potato salad is my dad. And I think he got the recipe off a bottle of French’s mustard. Read more

I’m pretty sure if Mueller is fired half of New York City will show up at Schneiderman’s office volunteering to do anything. I, personally, will be bringing cupcakes and offering babysitting services as I am not a lawyer. But an unbelievable number of New Yorkers are lawyers. Read more

1) The GOP isn’t going to impeach Trump. Their whole strategy is to pack the Supreme Court. 2) Get rid of Pence and Paul Ryan is president. Read more

YES! I’m from rural AZ and I keep telling people in NYC that Scottsdale is the Upper West Side, but for people who hate museums and theater and like golf. Read more

Yeah, lots of hair on a toddler is tough! It’s in the way when she eats and she hates having it combed. We’ll get it cut before summer — she’ll be 2.5 in May and hopefully will understand enough to sit still for a while. Read more

Once a week baths for probably 18 months. + as needed. At two we’re up to one bath, plus one-two showers. She has a lot of hair though, if she didn’t we’d probably still be once a week. Read more

Also =, you may not have a choice/option with regards to cord blood. I was all for “delayed” cord cutting, but the cord came out before the baby, so it was cut before she was out (to prevent strangulation). Read more

Yeah but at 15 months my kid could watch TV. At two she still can’t knit right! Read more

You have no idea how much JUNK kids’ stuff is. If there’s an upside to a trade war with China it’ll be assorted relatives buying less plastic crap. Read more

I went to nonsense art school, which can be worth it if you make it in The Industry. (I have not.) I can’t understand the people who go to a super expensive school like NYU for English or just regular degrees. Probably worth going there if you’re going into business or something else where you want to intern in the… Read more

I had to go to NYU when UCLA wouldn’t take me, so I feel your nephew’s pain. (Though there was no way I could have gotten into his high school.) Read more