I get Salty’s viewpoint about the owner and rent, but I’ve been to a few bars that are honestly happy to serve the sober patron under the assumptions s/he was the designated driver for a crew that were paying for drinks. I say this from experience as a one-drink or no-drink person at many bars who was, in fact, the…

Oh man, that sucks. My cousin got holiday pay for working part of Christmas at the movie theater. I figure the theater was making money hand-over-fist to do something like that. But that was back when some movie theaters were still individually owned franchises, so the practice probably varied a lot from store to…

I’m just as mad as the author … mad that I didn’t think of this business first.

So, to him it’s either six or fifty.  Yeah, that sounds like a healthy life.

The punishment you get for running naked with Oreos between your butt cheeks is that you ran naked with Oreos between your butt cheeks - and the possiblity that everybody knows it. Seems kind of obvious.

“...but even Ray Palmer’s mustache has its roots early in the season, when Ray tried so hard to deny how he feels about Nora...”

I can’t argue against rugelach. 

Find a kosher bakery. Buy Hamantaschen. Technically they’re associated with a different holiday, but around Hanukkah, they fly off the shelves, at least in my town. They’re little triangular shortbread cookie pockets stuffed with fruit or cheese. No one hates them, unless they hate sunshine and puppies, too.

Sure. The place I live in has turned into kind of a rich neighborhood, where parents funnel more time and leisure into making sure li’l Starsparkle Chauncybone III lives his Best Life, and so I wouldn’t declare everything I see around me to be ‘normal,’ feasible or sane for the average parent. So I get skeptical about…

I was in a classroom with five Jennifers and three Katherine/Catherines once. If you were one of those, you got last-named.  

Oh my god, so much counting, and you only hope that you are counting the kids that belong to you and not somebody else’s group as they all wiggle and mingle about, and who is hanging off of the exhibit this time? And which kid will not have their lunch with them?

Well, since I wasn’t asked, I can only pass on my impression from other parents. I think teachers would find a way to ask it in a nice way, but it would be  like, “Would you come see what the heck is happening here?” Sometimes kids aren’t aware they’re not behaving well, and the context of school isn’t changed simply…

The problem at lunch was usually behavioral correction, not loneliness. Though weirdly enough, it was somehow simultaneously a cool-kid thing to be able to brag that your mom showed up once a semester. That ended while the kids were still in the single digits, though. And like I said, I can think of one person who did…

It’s not a new trend, though maybe it’s new that it’s so heavy. I knew moms who would do it every Friday, others who popped in and did lunch after the odd volunteer job at the school. I showed up on birthdays, or at the occasional request of my kid. Teachers sometimes want parents to come in just to either see what’s…

I’m a Texan. I loooove our brisket tradition. But I’ll take some cochon de lait, some pulled pork shoulder, some dry and wet ribs, kalua pig, oh maybe a bit of lamb or cabrito for variety ... what were we talking about again?

You mean Wendy’s? Oh God, do not involve them in a Twitter fight.

My husband once worked for a company that hosted the largest online porn provider in the country. It’s been quite a few years, so I think they’ve been eclipsed a few times by other companies. As much money as they made, their outfit was tiny. The production companies actually made the stuff, and the provider…

Not the first time he’s used it this season, either. I’ve gotten to where I enjoy laughing every time we cut to a garishly lit reaction shot from him. It’s like he’s grafted 1960's superhero show acting onto 1980's superhero show lighting and set décor, and then just crammed them into this contemporary superhero…

I felt the same way about the latest “Nora is mad at someone!” plot this week at first, but it unfolded to show that those stories were wrapping up. The plot identified what Nora’s roaming anger was all about in order to give all those stories a retroactive arc and then, thankfully, conclude it.

This week’s episode was simply a reflection of the origin story for this year’s baddie on Supergirl. Between the two shows, I feel like it’s taking me twice as much time as it ought to watch the exact same arc unfold.