Yes, AND you can do all of that out of your parents basement. If you're getting out of college with a mountain load of debt (like a lot of people who graduated in the mid-2000s) it's a lot more cost effective to move into Mom and Dad's basement for two years, suck it up, pay them some rent that's still going to be…

Continuing the Great Circle of Insulting Others Based on Factors They Can't Control is the pretty terrible solution to that though. Obviously you are free to do what you want, but poverty and lack of options changes cultural mores significantly, and the idea of moving out at 18 and making it alone was always a very…

Every time I see the Peter man inspiring such vigor and passion from ostensible neutral parties when it comes to the Bachelor, I'm forced to google him again and look at his inoffensive, vaguely attractive, looks-like-it-was-made-by-mushing-many-other-faces-into-a-photogenic-composite mug. What is so attractive about…

Without an actual name to call their own, the ??? have adopted millenial for themselves, which does muddle things somewhat. You have sixteen year olds these days very seriously dubbing themselves millenials, maybe because elderly conservative radio hosts can't keep it straight either and keep complaining about the…

Both my aunts and uncle went and lived in my grandmother's basement as young people. They were broke and still trying to find jobs, the house was small but had enough delineation of spaces to support multiple couples in. It did a LOT for them. In the middle of the last recession, it meant the difference between…

I grew up in environments pretty heavy on federal employees of one stripe or another. Secret Service, CIA, some military intelligence. Most of them agreed polygraphs weren't too awful, after all, they were all gainfully employed and successful, but every now and then there would be a bad story about somebody who got…

I think that the difference is that one thing still has a solid amount of science and public opinion behind it, while the other doesn't. Polygraphs, are, of course, absolute rubbish, but that's because they're administered in a rubbish way and because humans aren't robots. The basic theory is still solid, if…

Polygraphs definitely-definitely don't belong in the court room but it's still more debatable if they might have a place in hiring practices. Obviously the people hiring taking them too seriously is a big risk that costs lots of people jobs, but using them to psych people out and give the illusion of an air-tight…

Exactly! See, if you are the trustworthy anonymous internet commenter you seem like (and I simply can't not trust Captain America) then you probably aren't sending your willy out into the world where it isn't wanted, and therefore your trust doesn't deserve to be betrayed by the modern art community at large. We…

You know, there's nothing worse then the betrayal of trust that comes with privately sent nude photos being shared without permission.

If she looked like that she'd be wearing ancient Sumerian clay tablets smuggled into the US under false pretenses.

Plus, most of the people who are crossing these days aren't even Mexican, they're Central American. They might pass through Mexico, but they could just as easily find a sea path if it came down to it. The system will adapt. Most people scared enough to trek across a whole country to get to another country ruled by a…

There are just as many studies that show that most of our modern studies are flawed though. Priming and society accounts for a lot of how people respond to things, and it's nearly impossible to get a "clean" study. Even just being asked to state your demographics on a test has been proven to subliminally make women…

Yeah, Dear Evan Hanson definitely got some street cred just for having a subject matter that was going to appeal to younger people more, but Natasha and Pierre is working it's way up in terms of 'songs I've heard sixteen year olds singing on repeat'. Unfortunately the young people who are just starting to get wind of…

It seems to slowly be hitting the Theater Kid Consciousness, I've heard the teens singing it a bit recently. Music wise, it's pretty okay, I think. The few songs I've heard haven't stood out but they're not bad for a show trying to literally adapt War and Peace (the prologue is pretty good https://www.youtube.com/wat……

Three cheers for Deidre! A good name for a good woman who had what I can only assume was of those multi-year lapses of judgement that happen sometimes. I know love is blind, but please, you married him? And didn't expect it to end in a sleazy manner? Oh, hon… that was optimistic.

"And where was Hillary, Mommy, what happened to her?"

One might argue they weren't memorable because they WERE competent and doing their jobs of telling people the news in a mild mannered, not absolutely bonkers way.

At the very least, he used to. https://twitter.com/realdon…

Some of those sites the kids frequent have gotten… weird. I try not to question it too much, their giffing skills really are incredible and it makes up for the occasional oddities. Besides, my abilities to identify both identical British boy celebs and random disembodied cheekbones have gotten quite sharp, so you know…