Thanks for this flashback. My mom, who never worked outside of her home, had at least a couple of Tupperware parties back when I was a child. There was a sense of excitement about it and it made mom feel like she was important in another role for a day or two. Every lady in my family was smitten with Tupperware. It…

Yes and grapes and pear cubes suspended in there somewhere as well.

I share your nature as a worrier and a person who suffers from anxiety. At this moment I am worried about the day ahead of me. But this is the most senseless thing I do. We absolutely can NOT control or predict what is ahead of us. We should see evidence of that daily and it should, in a perfect world, cancel out the…

He is sort of the Willy Wonka of Christianity.

The animal guy almost made a slip up and said that the animals would “evolve” to adapt to their environments. He caught himself and said “change” instead. Good thing because otherwise the big Aussie would come over and slap him.

Thank you. I don’t have an expensive economics degree and it has taken me a little while to figure things out but just tonight I basically ranted the same thing you just said to my wife, ironically after reading this post on Jezebel. The rich business people have us just where they want us. The big corporations aren’t…

Love this season of Fargo. Great show. Best on TV right now imho.

Hey that is not Minnesota nice!

We have all been punk’d!

I think it would be helpful to not make people into heroes in the first place. This guy was bad but he looks especially bad because everyone blew him up into such a hero. If people would just realize that everyone has good and bad to them. I am not excusing him at all. He is garbage. But that shouldn’t be so…

Good ol’ Pat, if he didn’t drink the blood of newborns every night, he would be dead by now!

Didn’t know about this Swanson kook. He seems to get physically aroused by all this talk about gays and trans people. His pulse sure goes up. I have this nagging feeling that ol’ Kevin there has his secret dress up clothes and heels hidden away somewhere so that he can relieve all that tension from time to time and…

This article in the Times pretty much ruined my day. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. I am a Gen-Xer in this same age group and feel like taking my life from time to time. I am also white. And we were brought up in a time when life was a lot different than it is today. I think it shaped our expectations. Now we find…

It’s the whole “Happy Valley” Joe Paterno thing all over again. I hate this kind of group think. I would think that a lot of molesters would be upstanding citizens. I don’t think sexual deviancy has anything to do with community spirit or work ethic. It is mostly a hidden desire that awaits an opportunity. That sounds…

Of course he drinks. He is Irish and at the top of the heap in his career. Self hatred and self sabotage are par for the course when you are raised Irish. You hear from the time you are little that you are not special and that you shouldn’t think you are. You are shamed and made to feel like God is watching you and…

It’s another case of the powerful being unimpeachable and their victims made to look like the bad guys. Dr. Luke is one of a handful of Swedish producers that make most of the hits we hear on the radio. The entire music industry and their biggest gun lawyers will fight Kesha to the death on this one. It is much like…

I have seen this with my own eyes. Even in career level jobs, I see a tendency for Russians to hire Russians and Chinese to hire Chinese and Hispanic to hire Hispanic. Caucasians got a lot of shit for doing this a couple of decades ago but this is an equal opportunity practice. Not only do people like to hire others…

Yes. As soon as I heard the man’s last name, I had a suspicion that he might be Chinese. Quite likely many if not most of the employees that got ripped off are Chinese too. I work with many Chinese people and they have pretty much all told me at one time or another that they dislike working for other Chinese bosses.…

So very true. It really is why listening to all the voices anywhere is a bad idea. People are dumb and people in large groups are even dumber. It’s also why I should not be concerned with what is going to happen tomorrow at work. I have no fucking idea what is going to happen. None of us ever do. We all need to just…

What you said is very interesting. I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago that was talking about how blowjobs were not common among hetero couples in the US before WWII. Apparently the GodFather novel was very controversial because it depicted them and readers of the early 70’s were shocked because, as you said,…