Thank you. I can't believe people are acting like I'm some sort of lying wizard for not paying $3000 to fly to Honolulu from LAX. I haven't even paid near that to fly to freaking Africa.

I fly to Copenhagen and/or Paris at least once a year and I can usually get tickets from LAX for around $800. They're not always that inexpensive but $800 is definitely not an outlier... I'm in that range a lot more than I'm in the $1200 range which is usually what it is during popular traveling times.

The majority of people do not live in New York. And I'm guessing that the majority of New Yorkers don't have $1.2 million homes and manage to have kids anyways.

Oh, I know that it's entirely a matter of what you grew up with. While our physical sense of taste changes as we age, though, I think, certain likes and dislikes and instincts get imprinted early on in childhood. My grandmother made God's own gumbo and she always bought the shrimp with the heads on because it was…

You know 'crappy, boring rice' is either cheap rice or badly cooked rice, right?

I'm Brazilian. Cassava is our staple.

This is tangentially related to the first bit of your post, but my very sweet partner was banned from playing soccer at school because he was "too aggressive" and kept fouling people. He is really tall (6'4"), and apparently once he had his growth spurt, he just couldn't really control his body, so he would see the…

I'm so accident prone that I got almost knocked out in d-league softball play this year. That was *after* I had a severe finger dislocation from just catching a softball at my first practice. I would probably find a way to die doing that.

I have a concealed carry license in my state (I swear I'm not a crazy right…

With the state of the species as they are, I wouldn't willingly kill off a strong hive.

Look closely, however, and you'll notice that the ratio of rate of death to rate of incidence is higher in ethnicities with dark complexions. Only about 1 in 100,000 black men is diagnosed with melanoma every year, but roughly 50% of those diagnosed with the disease die from it. Compare that to the roughly 25/100,000…

This needs to be on the top, people are acting like this isn't a part of a calculated effort by the police to eventually get this cop off for murder. And are really buying into this for the good of the citizens shtick the cops are trying to sell. No, when you can't buy peace and compliance with violence and…