One item on my Lottery List—the things I will do if I ever become filthy rich—is to create decent jobs somehow for students and other people with little experience, to save them from the companies wanting door to door salespeople or telemarketers or similarly soul-sucking jobs. Maybe give people stipends to do needful…

I felt manipulated by my student. It's one thing to wheedle $4 for box of Girl Scout cookies, but another to ask $400 for a set of knives.

Always my sales problem as well.

In the early 90s, one of my students asked if she could just practice her pitch on me and another SAT coach, but then she looked dismayed when we said that, as grad students with part-time jobs, we couldn't afford to buy. I think they told her that wallets would open by themselves from the wonder of her pitch. I felt…

I am gobsmacked to see how many commenters believed this story. My immediate thought was that she wanted some attention.

I bet they also mocked Ryan Lochte after his ordeal, and he was a hero.

I think that he suspects that she has NOT has gone through one of the worst nights of her life.

I think she is embodying Hillary's indomitable spirit.

That woman is amazing, given her busy role as first lady of Arkansas and the time trysting with Vince Foster.

I liked it when she was an awkward teenager, by which I mean I liked it when I was 30.

But they don't have any senior citizens in the cast.

Myle Cyrus was better.

Oh right—his Bill was excellent.

I think it would be "machine threading."

Six minutes to five, here. Better get out the gin.

I would enjoy the Obama we've had for the last year or so.

Thank you for articulating what I am too lazy or tired to write.

Are you referring to the use of so many raisins?

She is not "just, like, the worst"—she is politically about as MOR as Obama, she is very smart and hard working, and she spent years advocating for women and children. Get some perspective.

You are right about the haircut, but I prefer married men to be less attractive to me.