Yeah, that pretty much sums up the whole thing.

When I put together a cheese plate, I try to hit several checkboxes-

my rules for books are thus:
1. Is this a book I will legit want to read again?
2. Is this a book that is collectible?
3. Is this an educational book that I will refer to at some point?

Plus, if you ask someone out for coffee or a drink, and it goes well, you can always suggest moving on to dinner.  If you’re 15 minutes in and realizing that the whole thing was a terrible waste of time, you haven’t lost much.

Ooomph. You know, I was going to comment something about basic manners and whatnot, but yeah.

You know the difference between changing your mind and flip flopping?

Know what weirds me out? People who post pictures of their kids. Not one of them *with* the kids, just the kids themselves. Or if the kids are in every photo.

Simple solution to funding the wall:

Stop Social Security payments for any state whose electoral votes went to Trump.  They voted for it, they can pay for it.

That’s the part people don’t get.

“Retelling of 1500 year old story fails to conform to modern sensibilities”

It’s debt- It gets bundled with other debts and sold off wholesale to people who hope to collect more than they paid for it. Sometimes they take the money from the debts they collect on, then rebundle and resell the rest to someone else.  

I read an article by a web designer/admin who took a hard look at his customer base and realized that 10% of them took up 90% of his time- So he fired them. This opened up his workload so much that he was able to nearly double his clients- and income- while also working fewer hours.

People act like Trump just popped up out of nowhere. The fact is that he is the inevitable end product of the last 3-4 decades of economic fuckery and Roger fucking Ailes’ leading the charge for the degradation of American media.

Climate change.

Voter suppression, big money in politics, and gerrymandering and anti-democratic policies around governing really do lead to apathy.

RIGHT?

It just chaps my ass, is all.

I think there’s a serious issue there with, again, the particular knowledge involved in buying and maintaining a vehicle.

And we’re back to Boots theory.

No, their companies fail. The lenders have already paid themselves and get to watch the implosion from a beach in the Caymans.