"Restaurant industry backers warn that a sharp rise in wages"

Considering the wealth of evidence that suggests a wage increase will actually improve the economy and cost customers less than a 10 percent increase in the price of their product infuriates me.

Downside, machines break.

He did say something about how the next season will be about "hard women", so his use of the plural is encouraging to my Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin/Dolly Parton fantasy dream team.

Ernie: What's it all mean, Burt?

Burt: I don't know, Ernie. But something killed the bird.

Ernie: Something? Like what?

Burt: Maybe it was The Word ... I don't know. But whatever it is, it is going to die. And we're going to kill it.

Does anyone else hate washing their hair? I wash mine like twice a week. And it's not like it looks amazingly shiny and gorgeous because of it. It looks average-to-bad and I just put it up in a ponytail and try to ignore it.

I read that Boston Globe article when it was published to catch myself up on what had happened in this case. It gave me that sad, harsh pit feeling in the bottom of my stomach to know a creep like him was granted chance after chance after chance, regardless of his family's connections. He was a menace, and a menace…

This is one of those moments where the internet is every bit as magical as it's supposed to be—it's been incredible to see the groundswell behind #YesAllWomen and I hope it never stops. I just got back from a dinner with a friend where I disclosed the latest awful, surprise "bad touch" experience with an entitled…

Did she try to kill you?

MRA's and PUA's, the new domestic terrorists.

I mean, obviously. I still have flashbacks to that one time someone dropped a hard shell in my high school cafeteria. Johnny threw himself on it and absorbed all of the deadly corn shrapnel. I'll never forget his bravery.

I'm assuming these were soft shell tacos. Hard shell constitutes a felony in most states.

I just googled what you might mean by TTC. That acronym stands for the local public transit system in my city, which is barely functional and often contentious. My first thought was "TTC symptoms? Like, rage and impatience?"

Um....how incredibly patronising. I actually don't need "inspiring", I'm just having a crappy day and had a low moment. I really don't need to be condescended about my "life habits" either, which are pretty good thanks.

Are you feeling blue cheese? Sorry... that was the inner Lame Joke Dad in me.

Ugh, this. He goes on a murder rampage and says his motivation is that women wouldn't go out with him. But if some women said yes, what would've happened to them? What would've happened when they had the inevitable first fight, or if she didn't do whatever he wanted, or if she broke up with him?

For the first one I'd make an anonymous donation to a charity in honor of the baby. They won't specify the amount and you can give her the little announcement/card they include. She'll look like a jerk if she says anything and you can make lemonade out of lemons. It's basically following the rules since you gave a…

Thanks for the advice!!

There was a band at the bar last night. They were setting up as 7 of us were finishing our food and drinks. The lead singer and stand up bass player was a man, about late 40's (I'm in my thirties) and kept looking at me. I thought I knew him at first because he looked familiar. I didn't know him, we just caught each…