No offense, but I feel like this might've represented much better advice back when banks themselves actually paid interest on saving accounts. I know many people (myself included) which used to semi-foolishly look at a large income tax refund each year as a "forced savings"—mostly because I was poor at managing my…

Betsy is a diminutive of Elizabeth, so there really aren't too many birth certificates with "Betsy" entered as the legal first name. There are probably more parents CALLING their baby girls Betsy than Khaleesi (Not that there's anything wrong with Khaleesi! I'm happy to shake things up.). Also, when I encounter…

"Most people liked it, but a small number of lame-balls complained so I GUESS we'll take it down, SORRY NOT SORRY."

Uh... do you have anything to back that up? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that's not true.

My friend and I were discussing that this morning; our first thought was "thank God the kid didn't have a gun."

I wish you would put notes at the top of these articles instead of at the bottom. I got deep into this before I saw the author use the pronoun "we" to describe an action on campus, and suddenly I realized that this was an advocacy piece written by a participant, and not a journalistic piece per se (to the extent that…

To be fair, I did write out the whole chart by hand first, but scanning it into the post wasn't working all that well because my handwriting is hard to read. But yeah, it's a good thing we have Sam.

Sorry, toddlers.

the minus is due to the fact that the paper was supposed to be about the Outkast song.

"I am the walrus" - John Lennon. If Kurt Cobain were the walrus he would still be alive as he would not have had fingers to pull a trigger.

I'm more interested in the biology aspect. If these attraction/infatuation triggers caused by and causing biological changes are mostly due to the sole purpose of choosing a mate to have offspring, what is the motivating criteria for lesbians and gay men where intercourse will never result in reproduction? Does a gay…

Tom, I'm afraid you've been hoodwinked: this is viral marketing for Bud Light Lime Straw-Ber-Rita.

This is good advice. But you have to remember that some locations have their own set of rules. I'm thinking about NYC and SF specifically. Rules such as "bring your checkbook with you when you go to an open house in case you need to give them a security deposit and first month's rent on the spot." In these cities,…

I don't know. I've always been suspicious of the whole "process is the punishment" line of thinking. If something like this happens but at the end of it I get to leave, go home, and not pay any fine or get any points on my license, as far as I'm concerned there were no consequences. Then again, I'm not a minority so…

That’s a bit of a role reversal. Usually it's a dick running his Ford into a fire hydrant. Either way you’re probably looking at a bumper with a little crack in it.

You seem upset. Perhaps you need a vacation.

Love this woman.

This doesn't make any sense. You say the pair retired two years before what would have been their first shot at the Games, then you say skaters have to be 16 to compete. Presumably that means they retired two years before they turned 16? So they were 14? But you also say they started skating at 11. So they only skated…

He was paired up with his sister when he was 11—though he's probably known her longer than that—as is fairly common in the world of pairs skating.

I'm in the Navy and a good friend of mine who I used to work with has a husband who is JAG. He gets to prosecute a lot of sexual assault cases for the Navy and he told me "90% of my cases would go away if he just called her the next day or took her out to dinner before having sex." But the military is serious about…