Had dinner at Veselka with my family last Sunday. We were in town to hear our Yale alum sing with his a capella group

Argh! "Had", not "have"

When I was the editor of a technical magazine a long time ago, I have one writer who was very good at explaining things, but I used to joke that when I sat down with his work, I would pick up a handful of commas first

when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.