“That night, I saw a woman placed on a throne without a kingdom while no one watched.”

This article is more beautiful than its subject.

My son works 50+ hours a week in a salaried position. His employer does not offer health insurance coverage because it’s cheaper for them to just pay the penalties.

I love Alex Trebek and wish him all the best.  However, I did want to mention that there was a previous host, Art Fleming, that I am old enough to remember, from the 1960s.  I don’t think that Jeopardy was as popular then, but I loved it.

I always loved Michael Caine discussing Jaws 4: The Revenge.

I love that the suit alleges that they “concealed” the surcharge. when in fact aside from already listing it on their menus, they also listed it on the bill, rather than just quietly raising prices 3% and not saying anything, which would be ACTUALLY concealing it.

I hope the judge sticks him with all the court costs after ruling against the idiot who didn’t read the MENU.

This short article leaves out a lot of details of her (and her dad’s) life, as does the interview it’s based on. Her dad apologized for his views in the last years of his life (whether that apology was genuine or not is up for debate, whether he deserves forgiveness is also up for debate and IMO it’s reasonable to…

George Wallace did force his wife Lurleen to run for governor while she was dying of cancer so he could get around term limits and have a puppet governorship. I can only imagine how that affected the children.

Not surprised that she didn’t have a voice growing up.  I imagine that her father saw her and her mother as possessions: southern womanhood that needed protecting and controlling.

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My image focused, “Karen” of a sister stole one of my teenage son’s Christmas presents at my parents’ Christmas Eve gathering. He was in that awkward, angsty stage and this really bothered him. She thought it was super funny and refused to return it, even when I quietly took her aside and asked nicely. Nothing says…

Meghan McCain criticizing someone because she thinks they didn’t “earn” something is...something.

The giver was my father, not me, but this is still a great story.

My stepfather was an abusive brute, who loved to give “gifts” that would be “useful” rather than outright kind. Hence the wheelbarrow he gave me one year for Christmas.

It wasn’t really the gift itself, but the comment that came with it: a beach towel from the mother of a former boyfriend, since we had planned a trip to Florida. After I opened it, and said Oh, thank you this will be useful, she said well, I would have gotten you a bathing suit, but I didn’t think they made them in…

They need minority representation. 

Gonna drop this here, too, cause it’s funny:

Triggered was surprisingly a well-written book. It was nuanced, and highly erudite, with some poignant, thought-provoking points— I’ve been informed that I’m actually reading the nutrition facts on the back of a salt shaker, my mistake.

“What budget deficit? I don’t know that. Nobody told me that. The Obama did it. Crooked Hillary stole it and and the Lamestream Media aren’t even reporting it!! Can you believe this? BAD. The Real American People know. She’s a WACKO! Also, It is the BIGGEST in HISTORY. Which Hunt! I am the best, loser. Your the…