I've been taking the last part of your advice to heart for years and it has served me well.

Uh, cash? $1200 cash? Seriously?

One thing I've never known about that guideline: is it after-tax or pre-tax?

Wow, that's crazy. I will bear that in mind. So frustrating that those things can be so hard to fight. Thanks for sharing!

I'm a little late to this party, but what's wrong with Capital One?

Wasn't on the county's page, though, which is why my shabby lazy Googling didn't help!

I am one of those people who tend to read too much into emails... even as I write short and condensed emails like these.

I learned this as an executive assistant. Keep it to the goddamn point.

Also, I don't know how to pronounce the names of either of those companies. Don't think I've ever heard them said aloud.

Thanks. I thought that was in Montana, for some reason. Guess I should add that to the county's Wikipedia page. Man, I've been on an ignorant streak lately.

Who the fuck cares if they broke laws? If we lived in a humane society, where judges acted like human beings instead of kakodemons, they would have been let off with nothing except maybe a medal. Instead they are being persecuted, along with so many others. Man, judges are the worst.

Well, you got me with the Shannon County, South Dakota one. I don't get that one even AFTER I googled it. Just because it's so poor?

I interviewed to be Blackley's assistant back in 2009 or so. Unlike most H'wood agents, he has a very good reputation for not being a huge prick. Still supposedly a hardass, but not a dick for the sake of being a dick. One of the final stages of the interview process - which I didn't get to - was playing Xbox with…

I thought this was just me. I did know he wasn't a pope. But I also thought he personally assassinated Martin Luther King. Didn't learn too much about him in school, I guess.

I'll give him a pass on "there's" because it's pretty common as an informalism on the web, but you're right about the rest.

I agree. A lot of people say that cash feels more real to them, but I feel just the opposite... cash is already gone from my account, and therefore is basically 'free money'... or it feels like it. I have the same solution: never use cash when I can help it!

Man, this sounds like an awful idea for me. When I'm exhausted, I always make the health-related decision to order a pizza. Because my willpower is gone.

He's got another 18 or so years to go to determine whether he can reform or not.

I think if you're willing to make a blanket statement like that, you should include soldiers as well.

Thank you for your spirit of not-vengeance, unlike everybody goddamn else. Much appreciated.