I keep telling them they’re making a grievous mistake and should instead adapt the story of Cassandra, but no one will believe my warnings. 

I am 43 years old, so I have had my boobs longer, and I firmly believe you a so fucking wrong about this. Hook it in the front! I will gladly die on this hill.

Every single time I am at TJ Maxx or Nordstrom Rack and I reach for something and then realize it’s Ivanka’s brand, I instantly recoil and shudder.

I hate the myth of rugged individualism because it makes people selfish and think people who are struggling are not trying hard enough. Not everyone has the same access to resources. Some places are closed to people. Honestly, working hard does not always mean you’re going to become a “success.”

All of them lifelong members of the May I Speak to Your Manager Tabernacle Choir.

I’m listening Glasses. I hear you.

ALSO, they’re reintroducing legislation to repeal the ACA. So, like the nazis they love, it seems like they want to get rid of the sick and disabled too.

Not sure how much more I can take.

Me too. I am *this* close.

If they made a flip phone that could still do spotify, I’d consider it. I haven’t bought music in years, and I don’t know where I’d start again, nobody has the money to keep up with the latest stuff if you buy it all one-off!

Amen. I’m almost ready to downgrade.

Okay but honestly after 14 years of being on Facebook and having a smartphone for 10 years I keep dreaming of getting one of these and embracing my inner luddite. It all sounds so simple.

ADV Films was based in my city, and they helped blow up the anime scene in the ’90s. I’m glad I grew up in that era, because we would trade anime and Newtype magazines in middle school and high school.

Please bring the recaps back. This show is excellent and deserves coverage. Thanks for the column today. I was utterly moved by Under Pressure in a way TV rarely moves me.

As far as musical episodes goes, this one was pretty good. This season has been the best this shows ever been.

I was thinking I had been missing this all season, but its such a good season of the show (and having the quiet comfort of knowing it already has been renewed). I am now a little worried about who is rooting for them. Its apparently someone talked about but we haven’t met him yet. I am a little worried that Eliot and…

So, as a general rule, I'd agree that people should be really, really careful of doing debt consolidation, but I can personally vouch for the fact that it _can_ work out — in very specific circumstances:

I'm using the snowball method to pay off my credit cards and it's working really well actually. Put as much money as you can towards the card with the lowest balance (forget interest rates, paying off debt is a mental game), and pay the minimum on the others.

I read that as less of "OMG, what should I do with these paper statements?" and more of a "UGH, it's so hard to remember when my 6 different due dates are, and they keep changing anyway, so one payment would be easier to manage."

Do it, but also cancel those credit cards.