Interesting - it (somewhat surprisingly as a cynical Gen Xer in the Age of Influencers) hadn’t occurred to me that there might be sponcon in the writing. Double dipping....hmmm.  

Yes, but like smoking cigarettes in the 1970's - 1990's, asthmatics risk of dying doesn’t compare to the vapers ‘Merican Rahts™ to do whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want. It’s a super considerate position held by top-notch people. /S

I can say (this is of course just my experience, not a carefully controlled scientific study) that my university students from the US basically didn’t smoke cigarettes ten years ago. We tavel together, so it was pretty easy to see who smoked and who didn’t over the course of a week. There would be one occasionally, or…

Yup. And it was all about the right to smoke anywhere anyone damned well pleased. No worries about the asthmatics, who could literally die from all of the filthy jackwagons smoking on planes, in doctors office waiting rooms, restaurants. It was a classy time.

This is the cold, hard truth. I am one of the extremely lucky people who did land a tenure track job. My degrees are from non-Ivy, top-rated programs in my field that are AAU (R1) schools. I have taught at two R1 programs and one non-R1 program. I am also an underrepresented category teaching in a highly desirable,…

I can vouch personally for this - I worked four, eight-hour days during the recession, and I was crazy productive during my four days. Partially because I was sleeping, exercising and eating better, partially because I would do almost anything to finish my work in my four days to avoid coming in on the fifth day.  It…

I worked four, eight-hour days for nearly a year during the recession. I took voluntary furlough. I took Monday off, because my dimwit bosses couldn’t ever plan ahead, and I knew that they wouldn’t think to ask me to come in on Monday before end of day on Friday. Yay, me! My colleagues who took Friday ended up working…

Sounds like a new bank might be just the thing.  I've fired banks for bullshit fees, inability to correct errors and super-rude staff.  Sometimes a good, old-fashioned firing is the only fix.

Honestly, I would do what is best for your well-being during a difficult time. If you don’t plan to maintain contact with him or any members of his family, I would do it now to avoid the constant reminders. If you are close (a few of my friends are still super close with members of their ex’s family post-divorce) then…

Honestly, studies show that over 55 starts to lose mental acuity.  By that measure....we would have very different candidates.

Unions may not be perfect, but they are so far superior to the alternative that it can hardly be expressed in words. The UAW president and cronies skimmed thousands of dollars. They are shits, and they should be better, but it doesn’t begin to compare to the millions skimmed each year by the C-level executives at GM.

Too true. When instead we should confront the fact that, in the land of the American Dream™, your chances of becoming insanely wealthy are nearly 1:1 correlated to whether you were born insanely wealthy.

So, you are saying that you *don’t* think $1000 per month to give up your job, your social security and your Medicare benefits is a good deal? /S

We could form a secret force of white ladies past their last fuckable day.  They'd never see us coming!

If only we could talk her into this idea.  Also, if the ocean quickly recedes, she should definitely go check that out.  Seriously, this woman cannot shut her entitled, science-denying, crystal-toting pie hole fast enough for my liking. 

Like these:

Polymer clay earrings in red - hip, elegant and not too serious.

Or let states most closely match the national electorate vote earliest, per 538:

You are not wrong. I would have so much admiration for the also-rans if they made it their mission to police Joe, leaving Sanders and Warren to talk policy for the majority of the debate. Foolish hopes, but there they are.

This is how a candidate wins Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - and with those three states, the Presidency. 10,000 votes would have taken Michigan in 2016. I tink w should focus on the Great Lakes states. With them, we take the Presidency. If a few more of the obvious also-rans running for President (who are very…