Anyone who says they wouldn’t take what they need to survive in a disaster is truly, genuinely, absolutely full of shit. My husband was in Hurricane Odile a few years ago (Mexico) and he and his buddies stole cartons of cigarettes and water from an abandoned hotel so they had something to trade people and something to…

Not bad. It’s a tough song to sing.

I’m guessing it’s different for everyone....

Anyone who wears a baseball cap outside of a ball game is equivalent to wearing flip flops beyond the beach/pool.

That doubtless has more to do with which letters are chosen for feature than the letters being fakes. 76,000 people have clicked through to read this one post of three letters alone already, and it’s been posted less than 24 hours (stats at the top). Assuming that even 1% of readers write in, that’s 760 emails asking…

I didn’t even see your reply so this is a late response, but I think an important one. 

Ah, thanks. Sorry I was so abrupt, I totally mistook your intention.

Ah, thanks. Sorry I was so abrupt, I totally mistook your intention.

I think this is a strange comment to reply to me with, based on my two comments here on the matter, seeing as I’ve said that A) feminists can cheat, and Whedon’s issues are re: womanizing and imbalance of power, and B) that I’ll enjoy his work regardless, so I’m not emotionally tied up.

“It’s really not ok for anyone else to define those women’s experiences with him other than those women.”

It’s totally possible to be both (I was, a long time ago) but it’s impossible to be a womanizer and a feminist, which is really the grosser accusation here.

I am a non-cook, here is the thing I’m living on lately. It’s a lot of written directions but is 10 minutes of work and minimal cleanup/cost:

Quiche for life! I lived on quiche the second half of college (first half was bar food, quiche is far superior to bar food).

My theory is that’s it’s A) because even if smaller-town midwestern-type people are semi-passionate about politics, they’re not surrounded by important political stuff for the most part... or at least, not like the people who live in major cities are (aka New York, Chicago, San Francisco, DC).

Do you work in medicine? You sound defensive.

Well, renovating a centuries-old manor is not cheap.

Go pros are cheaper than pro level DLSRs and such, but they’re not exactly “cheap” like a throwaway camera. I think the absolute dead cheapest model is $150.

When they say “lighting” they don’t mean like normal lighting design with lighting fixtures and such for a normal home. This was like a full-scale light installation—like at an art museum—made throughout a giant manor of 40 rooms, dramatic enough to require architectural changes in the building(s), carried off by a…

Sort of? That’s an element of it. But it’s more cultural, the money’s just an easy descriptor lots of people will immediately understand. Lots of people have enough money to be comfortable and still feel broke all the time, but this is a certain upper middle class/keeping up with the joneses/so close to rich they can…

I always assumed the Jetsons were upper middle class... The sort of people who bring in a combined household income of ~ $500k/year and live in California’s bay area, so they make good money but everything’s really expensive so they more or less live the “sweet life” paycheck to paycheck.