Theatre "managers" tend to be 17-year-olds in my experience. I prefer to fight my own battles and save them the humiliation of being laughed at.

Bullshit.

I was at a Chihuly exhibit this weekend, never having seen any of his work in person before. Everyone had their goddamn phones out. One young mother was so busy taking pictures that she didn't notice her kids were touching the v. expensive and breakable sculpture she was trying to shoot. Oh, the desire to punch people…

Where do you live that hockey tickets only cost $85?

In the meantime, they made it easier to sell off federal land
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Supposedly they vote on it today. I hate to echo a certain jerk around here, but: call your representative, if you haven't already.

He didn't want control in the first place, though, did he? The standard line about him taking the speakership is that he did it "reluctantly."

I don't have a satisfactory answer for that, but I do know women who are that obsessed with shoes. I know one who has a closet specifically for footwear.

What about her speeches has been making you worry that there's another run in her future?

I think it's premature to worry about her mounting another run. She's lost one nomination and one election, not to mention the fact that up until now she's been AWOL while Bernie and much of the centre-to-left media shat all over her (and/or spent a disgusting amount of time blaming the most vulnerable parts of the…

Remember how, 3 weeks before the election, Drizzle asked if, since Hillary was going to win, the conversation could now centre around her instead of Trump?

It requires confidence, loud stating of opinion, and a generous dose of making things up and blaming others. That will take you far in business, if you're a man at least.

My sympathies. I could not remotely do your job, and am impressed you haven't gone postal yet. Or at least pulled a Mr Incredible and tossed someone through six walls.

I just watched it last night. I'm feeling bizarrely guilty about it today.

I'm so sorry. I would lose my mind if my sister died.

Hugs to you. That's… just awful.

"The good Lord lets us get old for a reason: to find fault with everything He's done."

Yes, and there can be questions about where the attraction is coming from, too, and where that crosses the line into fetishization. For example, a fairly common thing I've noticed in my generation is white men who have a thing for East Asian women. Is it all just random attraction? Does it have to do with the…

Well, now everyone around me knows I'm not working.

This is excellent advice.