I think you’re on the right track that a tax is unfair to poor people but there’s more needed than just reducing meat waste.
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Not in NYC, but nearby. One time my then High School aged daughter left homework or something home, and I happened to be off work and able to bring it to the school. I’m standing waiting for someone to let me in and I can see the schools closed circuit TV in which the principal is interviewing the “student of the…
Oliver Stone is supposed to have assaulted a Playboy model, not a Bunny. Playboy bunnies are women who work in Playboy clubs, while women who appear in their media ventures such as the magazine and video, are models. Some Bunnies have appeared in the magazine, but not everyone who is associated with the Playboy…
Someone I know whose mom is dying, had some very cruel things said to him by a relative, followed by that “just a joke”. The shield of bullies everywhere. He replied “My father always told me it was only a joke if the other person is laughing.” Truer words never spoken.
I’m shocked that list you linked to says to keep appliances that survived. We were told by several people under no circumstances to do that, because smoke/soot can get inside the appliance and accumulate on the wires, which can cause another fire.
That’s exactly how I feel. It wasn’t the first bad thing that ever happened in my life but there’s such a feeling of before/after... my SIL gave me a ton of clothes after our fire because she’s a shopaholic (some were new with tags) and just slightly larger than me, and my mom kept worrying that I didn’t have clothing…
I am one month short of 4 years since I lost my home to a fire. I think Ryan is still running on adrenaline.
For the first few days we mostly held it together... we lost two dogs (one, very elderly who was dead of smoke inhalation when we woke, the other, always easily frightened, we called but, we think, would not…
For a while I’d had a request in to the library for a Rebecca Solnit book about the sociology of disaster, which unexpectedly arrived during Harvey, and made really interesting reading with disaster after disaster hitting.
Why are they dragging their feet on Stranger Things? Their actors are kids, and they are right at the ages where they are going to be sprouting 8 inches taller overnight (I grew a ridiculous amount taller in 7th grade) or “11" will get boobs or something. They need to get these seasons in the can before the actors…
Unfortunately the people who cut up the rings are not the same people discarding them in the woods or ocean :( your recycle is not being dumped in the woods. And I no longer live on an island but when I did, I was amazed at the amount of trash that washes up that did not originate in America or Canada (labels - in…
I’m sure that 99% of the veterans with bats he was talking about had wives/spouses and kids too. Sometimes causes seem MORE important to people who have kids. Lots of the people counter-protesting this past weekend had spouses and/or kids. I don’t think anyone currently pregnant should counter-protest, it’s awfully…
Craziest question: I was asked if I thought the position I was interviewing for, had duties that could be completed by one person. I sort of stammered and said they’d written the job description (multiple person interviewers) and thus I thought they must know better than I. (I’m sure they were reasonable people, etc…
My first thought too, sadly.
Not really. If you go as far east from Philly as you can get in a straight line, you’re in Atlantic City. Every third person you meet has either been laid off from a bankrupt Trump property, or was a contractor in the building of said property, in which case you were ripped off much earlier. I don’t think voting…
This deserves to be a column in ‘the slot’ all it’s own. Very well thought out, well written!
I’d also like to know the answer to all the permutations of this which people have mentioned. I don’t drink socially because of prescription medication - the combo just makes me incredibly tired and I’d be a terrible host/guest if I drank, but I don’t care if anyone else drinks, as long as I don’t have to confiscate…
I had an identical problem years before any of the cuts to the IRS you mention. As I posted above, at this point I barely resent the person who stole my identity, the thing that left a bad taste in my mouth that still hasn’t left was the horrible treatment I got from the IRS, despite being a law abiding person with a…
This happened to me years ago before I ever heard the term “identity theft”. The part that still bugs me is not the identity thief so much as how rude the IRS person was when I called even though I nicely said things to him like “Look at my return, I am a federal employee just like you. I have <level> clearance.…
I don’t know if they flee sinking ships but they have a sense of self preservation. Rats are actually pretty smart animals. I lived in Alaska for several years and more than one eyewitness told me that rats left our towns fishing fleet during the 1964 earthquake. Most of the men ran down to the harbor, and most of the…