It’s also a learned thing. My first time voting was the 2000 presidential election. I sometimes get Ralph Nader flashbacks when people are trying to convince me that Bernie is the only candidate that I could possibly vote for. I remember, at 18, thinking there’s no way W could get elected because he and his entire…

No.

I think people who are asking for government programs are not a totally different set of people than those who pay taxes. There’s quite a bit of overlap in that Venn diagram, something you seem to not be aware of. So they DO pay into the government programs, they just are advocating for programs that also benefit…

you used the words ‘galling’ and ‘reprehensible’ in your first comment here, so I don’t think I’m imagining the judgment I see in your posts.

Please use greed as an adjective in a sentence.

You seem very tiresome and belligerent for the sake of being argumentative rather than for any other purpose. More power to the people here actually trying to converse with you as if you were open minded, but you’re clearly here to talk at people without listening (or reading, in this case). You’re making me sigh and…

No need to wait. They’re already here in the greys.

Left and right are inherently relative terms. So comparing her and Obama to the spectrum from 15 years ago doesn’t really mean much. I mean, Ted Cruz would have been considered a liberal in the 19th century, but who cares. He’s not now. And, just 15 years ago, Strom Thurmond was in Congress, so I’m not sure it was the…

I mean...have you looked at the GOP candidates? Cause...she only looks ‘to the right’ when you’re comparing her to one of the most ‘to the left’ members of Congress.

I think they are referring to the legal definition, like your tax filing status is ‘single’ even if you cohabitate for a long time. I get confused about common-law though.

You are also a better person than me, because I would have punched those idiots in their stupid faces.

I too have an asshole cat who makes me upset as often as he makes me happy. I too would never shirk my responsibility to make his life the best it can be, even while he’s biting my fingers at 4 am.

“They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it.”

Lindsey Graham was the only candidate to serve in the military. So...they should all shut up. Not that I think a presidential candidate has to serve, but if they’re going to pretend to be John Wayne Tuff Guys and punch political correctness in its European face, it would be more believable if they had the dog tags to…

I am lazy, so probably won’t do that. But the easy way to explain it is: The companies markets/sells the book to the professor; the professor decides which book to assign for that class and then every student has to buy it, regardless of price. So if they can get the professor to say ‘you have to have this book, and…

I used to edit nursing textbooks and I felt like a war criminal. Authors made a ton of money. Students, mostly women from middle/low socioeconomic backgrounds, working their way through 2-4 years of school, paid a TON for those books. And don’t get me started on the ‘new edition’ every 3 years so the old book is…

I would say no. When I’m on a workout binge and going to the gym every day, I have to do a full shampoo and condition after each workout. Dry shampoo works well on 2nd day hair, if you haven’t been sweating. I feel like sweat is different than natural hair oil and the dry shampoo doesn’t really work on it. In my…

I’ve never actually smelled stinky hair; I didn’t know this was a thing. I know the ‘I went out last night and there’s smoke smell left in my hair’ smell, but I really don’t think of 3-day hair smelling worse than 1st day hair. Makes me wonder if my hair stinks and I don’t realize it. Does it smell oily or sweaty or…

I think this depends on what you’re studying. Lots of STM courses involve explaining things to the class, and your point is totally valid for those. But literature and the humanities are usually more about discussions, because there is no right or wrong. So you get a lot of people talking when they don’t have much to…

Not true! I bought a skirt at Primark last spring and wore it without realizing that, in natural sunlight, it’s totally transparent. I got a lot of embarrassed smiles, gawping, and one man yelling out of a transport van before I realized my mistake.