That would be cool. I think the ricin is going to the Schwartzes, though.

I'll be happy with any ending where Lydia dies.

If his family doesn't get the money, he doesn't really win.

Some people deserve to die, but I don't believe it should be the roll of the state to murder its citizens no mater what they have done. Lock them up forever, and if something horrible should happen to them in prison I'll be glad to hear it, but no, my personal desire for revenge does not trump my principled opposition…

I that's true, then why are there basically no instances of pairings between gay men and trans women?

I don't lose respect for them but if it's the first thing I know about them they usually have to work extra hard to prove they aren't the assholes I'm immediately expecting them to be.

I'd take the company of Ossifrage over a delusional religious person every day of the week.

Cream soda? Were you born in 1908?

Can we have a reasonable discussion about something Catholic-related without automatically retreating to highlighting the Church's failures in the child molestation scandal? The Church's leadership and infrastructure have major problems, yes, we know, thanks for the reminder! But there is so, so much more to this…

"If there was such a thing as a 102 percent, this would be it."

Then move there. Yes, I know, you don't think you could, you would hate it and not find a job. See? The tradeoffs are a basic thing. 200K puts you in the 90%, though, and crying poor because you want to live in Manhattan is whinging.

Stop being a patronizing asshole, rich boy.

As for numbers, here you go:

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-…

@roobb, my family is broke too. my dad left a truck that I assumed payments for but wound up losing anyway bc I got laid off. They had paid off their house shortly before he died, but it has since been mortgaged twice to try to stay afloat.

You can call yourself whatever you want - "middle class" or not. That doesn't matter - it's just an arbitrary label that both the over- and under-qualified will engage in whatever forms of cognitive dissonance are necessary to convince themselves that fits.

I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that every time one of these articles get written there's a bunch of "Well, it's totally ok that I do/did this totally shitty/ridiculous thing because my grandmother would have been really upset if I didn't" or "Weddings are expensive, therefore it's ok if I act like one of the…

While you're getting yourself educated, go watch the documentary "Hot Coffee." You don't know what you're talking about on that subject, either.

For Oregon State, you forgot this:

Some examples of straight white male privilege in America:

This is hilarious. There were no scholarships available to him? True, he couldn't apply for the few ethnic-specific or gender specific scholarships, but he could apply to all the others. Every job seeker w/o education finds it difficult to obtain employment. He was denied unemployment benefits because he is a a…