You’re terrible and I love you.

It's generally the case that red states take more in funding than they contribute in taxes, while blue states are the opposite. Bootstraps!

I've been saying for years that Dan Savage needs to write the next Everything You Need to Know About Sex book for teenagers. Teens will find it useful, Republicans will collectively rage-stroke and shit themselves—what's not to look forward to?

Yeah, I think it might be time to retire the wedding gift tradition, at least for couples past their early 20s. It makes sense for the community to come together to help a newly married couple fresh from their parents' houses set up their own household, just as it makes sense for the community to come together to help…

Failed abortion report? Is that a thing?

Sigh.

Heh. Even I'm not that mean.

Oh, honey. That was me being nice.

For me, the most annoying thing was when there was a mix of cash and cards and all different amounts, especially when the cash people needed change. If there is any way you can split the check evenly (i.e. divide by four, not $22.50 on this card, $18.63 on that card, etc.) and do it all with a minimum number of cards…

Manners make me happy, but chivalry makes me squeamish.

I'd be down with the offering, not so much the requiring. It seems a little too much like saying if you're poor, you must be too stupid to feed yourself.

OK, I'm three beers in and probably going to fuck this up, but here goes...

Unfortunately, the best you can probably do is look to the country of origin; if it's from a place known for terrible labor practices, this probably isn't an exception. What sucks is there's a lot of deception in seafood. I've read up on this extensively because I was/still am quasi-vegan/vegetarian/something; while…

Thank you so much! The thing about the sheets really makes sense. I'm not much of a night-sweater,* but my boyfriend is, and we should really start doing that.

It's complete bullshit that you can't use food stamps to pay for things like diapers and toilet paper. I know the idea is to nourish people, but for God's sake, anyone who qualifies is in a bad, bad place financially. Let them have something to wipe their asses with.

HAHAHAHA of course. "With respect" invalidates everything that comes after it, including the patronizing tone of the rest of your post and your sneering suggestion that she should have carried around at least $45 in cash so the waitress could evade taxes. Knock it off; you're making us all look bad.

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I'm a little confused by some of these phrases:

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Um. If your crappy job is just barely paying the rent that keeps a roof over your head, you do, in fact, have a lot to lose. All the money someone has in the world is always going to be a lot to them. These jobs are not always easy to come by, and if you've brought a legal action against your former employer, they can…