As always, I am hesitant to reply to comments with the knowledge that the Kinja system elevates Staff contributions and thus the comments themselves, but I want to address this since I’ve seen it pop up a couple of times in my notifications.

Is there a number I need to get at the counter to get in line to write for the NYT, or will they just call my name when it’s my turn?

POSSIBLE SPOILERS INCOMING

The second the scene started I knew the snap would be happening, and it filled me with dread the whole scene. It was amazingly done. It also helped Clint was actually *part* of the family, on a much closer level than he was in Ultron. Nothing bonds a family like house arrest.

“Discrimination and family-unfriendly policies are among the causes, but research has suggested another influence: “The returns to working long, inflexible hours have greatly increased” in this “winner-take-all economy.”

argued on ABC’s This Week roundtable that...

Also, for the 5,000th time: Arabs are Semites.

Picture a theater of almost 200 people answering all of T’Chala’s war chants. The room exploding when Captain America picked up the hammer for the first time.  That is how I describe what I saw last night. It was more than a movie it was an experience.  It was something I can talk about for years to come.  It is…

I’m about to leave for a month of travel in Africa, and since I want to actually be able to use the internet while I’m there, I hauled my ass to an 8 am showing this morning. Maybe it’s just the endorphins, but I really enjoyed it. Some random thoughts:

AMERICA’S ASS

Honestly it sounds like you’re nitpicking minor plot contrivances due to the use of time travel in the plot.

I LOVE that they committed to Thor not getting his shit together. I kept waiting for him to magically become buff again. 

So it seems pretty clear that Thor Lebowski is going to be a huge Halloween costume this year, right?

I need to understand how the Social Security Administration will calculate the snapped’s age. Bureaucratic logistics matter now more than ever.

“i have a worthless liberal arts degree and this minimum wage barista job means i can’t afford to pay it back” feels like someone who never took their obligation seriously to begin with - they did not plan for how to pay it back.

What a shitty take. 

It might be anecdotal, but in my immediate circle, this is true almost across the board. Most of my friends are in their early to mid thirties and most of them aren’t buying a house/having a baby because their student loan debt repayment is still so high that it takes up a significant chunk of their incomes. 

Student loan debt isn’t the same as materialistic debt, conflating the 2 is asinine.

The baby boomers before us went to college for a FRACTION of what it costs now - my parents boast of community college courses either being free, OR CLASSES TOTALING $15 a semester. Compare that to the 20K it costs for a 4 year degree at a state school (that’s the cost if you live at home - god forbid you need money…

A massive wipe of student debt in the U.S. would trigger a huge spending boom in housing and autos, and probably bump up birth rates as young Americans who were looking down the barrel of decades of debt would decide they could have the 2.5 kids their parents had. And all the critics are going to worry about is that…