I’d be more sympathetic to her if she didn’t work with kids. They deserve better, and the daycare was right to fire her.

I preached a sermon once where I talked about how embarrassed we should be that we go out to eat after an hour of church and think our generosity doesn’t extend to people working hard for $3/hr. (I’m a pastor at a mainline church) A waitress called two days later and thanked me because apparently a table of Sunday…

I grew up on Little Caesar’s and just don’t get the hate for it (though that was 30 years ago and it’s mostly disappeared, so maybe it’s very different now).

That story about the woman who got doused with red wine? I had a similar experience and similarly laughed it off. As a server was setting a nice large martini (with a lemon twist, not an olive) in front of me his hand trembled for some reason and the whole thing went down the front of my shirt. The look of horror on…

She’s one of the few people to have an Erdős–Bacon number. Also, fun fact, Paul Erdős has a Bacon number of 5.

More importantly, he got Dame Judy $1,000,000 for Riddick. He made her salary part of his demands when he found out what the producers were planning on offering her. He thought the amount was an insult to an actor of her caliber.

And that is come quality pastoring. If you don’t make people in your congregation aware of issues of economic justice you are doing it wrong. But then again I belong to a church that’s been know to dress our Martin Luther statue up in rainbow colored robes for the gay pride parade, so the person who left the tract…

Eh, she passed away a year ago. I’m not saying that to make you feel like a dick, because what she said was far, far more dickish, but please for the luvva remember that we all have foibles and that hers came from a bygone era and lots of internet commenters still love their Memaws even when they were at times…

#notallreligiouspeople
I’m a Christian and I tip 20%+ and am generally a very easy person to serve.

Once, an 8-top of Christians left one of those “Here’s a Tip for You!” pamphlets on my table, in lieu of a cash tip. I was sort of used to this, so I didn’t remark much, just tossed it into the bus tub with the rest of the debris, and a glower.

Karen here, it was a Ruth’s Chris and the guys stiffed me on the bill, but luckily since it’s a chain and the managers are great, they didn’t expect me to pay for the meal, and let me keep the money as tip.

I was a server for ONE night. At a dive bar in a college town (you know, bras and panties hanging from the fake deer antlers above the bar— and that’s not even the worst of it). I was in grad school and broke and the job was offered to me without an application or interview- so I took it. I worked a Thursday night (a…

It could probably be reproduced by adding a bit of cayenne or something to regular cheddar Annie's.

yeah but whatever because Annie’s is infinitely better than Kraft

On behalf of the entire college debate community, a couple of things. First, no one other than Ted Cruz says those things in round, and if they do, they get roundly shamed for it. Second, we are all, from the least experienced freshman to the longest-tenured coach, smarter than that. Third, fuck that guy. Thank you.

Mr. Kennedy’s debate partner mocked Mr. Cruz’s knowledge of the subject matter by contorting herself to see how the anatomy in question could be “visible,” according to the booklet.

Latin, apparently.

The Pawsoxs are trying to pull this shit here in RI, with “oh, the owners are going to pay for the stadium with private funds” BS, but in reality its a $120 million public subsidy because they want to “lease” the stadium back to the state and the sate would pay $4 million a year to the team for 30 years. Plus they…

Here are economists Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys writing (PDF) for Econ Journal Watch in 2008: