It's not just Vermont. Every rural place across the country is experiencing this. The talented and ambitious young people leave for the city and for economic opportunity. Only the old and those with no ambition remaining. If it takes a certain population you have a successful gene pool it takes some other number to…

you need to have someone teach you Australian style rappelling. If you think convincing yourself to step backwards off a cliff is a rush, try doing it face first. And not being able to see your rope.

Or, McDonald's realized that an increased minimum wage, while painful to the bottom line, would be even worse to their competitors who are making slimmer margins. Come out as the good guy, avoid bad publicity, and kick your competition in the nuts while nobody is looking.

just wedge a small sharp pebble into the inside of the valve stem cap and screw it on tightly. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

I'm a super-eater too. Almost 20 years past high school and only about 5 pounds of weight gain, which I would lose on weeks just by not drinking beer. Do you also find that you can go huge lengths of time without eating? It's like, since I'm hungry pretty much all the time, the difference between skipping meals for…

Totally agree, though an inexpensive second best option is the ugliest $3 avocado green blender at the thrift store. American made, all steel parts, and capable of pulverizing concrete.

Oatmeal is great, grits too. I'll even show some love for Farina so long as you don't call it Cream of Wheat. But the secret to breakfast foodstuffs is steel-cut oats. Consider that we live in a universe that requires balance. E=MC^2, equal and opposite and all that. Now consider the abomination that is Cinncinati…

I used to work at a theme park as a field service tech. We were responsible for charging, replacing, and maintaining hundreds of 9v batteries used in wireless mics all over the park. When trouble shooting a bad mic, ruling out low-voltage was the first test, and the tongue was quicker than the volt meter. It became…

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Try mashing in the butter first. The oil coats the starches so they become less gluey when you add the other liquids.

Since you only reference yourself and your husband, you might want to know that median income for a household of 2 is $39,000ish. Since you exceed that by 25%, I think you are firmly ensconced in the middle class, if not even in the lower bounds of the upper middle class. It's the sort of thing that ought to make you…

There's just a hint of fishtailing as the Lambo makes its turn, then it seems to be rapidly accelerating out of the turn. I'd say 60 is a pretty good guess, but i have no clue how a car like this would handle. I want this to be squarely the Mazda's fault, but assuming a 25 mph residential speed limit, I I'm going to…

This put the other comments in a single column, making them so much easier to read. Can you do this for every article i want to read?

I ran the stadium sound board for my university's football stadium. It was a gorgeous new stadium, but with a decrepit after though of a sound system. Basically the job was turn on the ref's mic to call a foul, play the same loop of "Thunderstruck between plays, and mute the announcer's mc if he wanted to tell a dirty…

Hard to beat Dr Who's library: a 51st century library containing all written records from human history throughout the universe, taking up an entire planet. And of course haunted by the flesh eating Vashta Nerada. A quick Google image search turned up no truly great images, so in the spirit of a discussion about…

Not to brag, but my not quite two-year olds will happily clear plates (no knives, of course) and will unload the bottom rack of the dishwasher. Okay, a little bragging, but it is possible for children to be a functional part of the family, rather than the sun that their parents revolve around.

Having worked as a lumberjack, stage carpenter, and furniture mover, my grip strength is fine. But the real secret to grip strength were those mild cases of frost bite I got ice fishing as a kid. Kind of killed the nerve endings on my fingertips a bit. Let's just say I rarely need my socket set.

The one thing fans of the Mountaineers and the Thundering Herd can both agree on.

I'm sorry, but let's review: Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Hole, Mia Zapata and the Gits, Temple of the Dog, Mud honey, L7, Stone Temple Pilots, sleater kinney, babes in toy land, the breeders.....

I agree, with this me exception, which is right up there with the Pointer Sisters pinball number count bit on Sesame Street.