I like the intro. I'm square and about 90, but we let this cult of popularity stand in for fact and thought. It's depressing to see that we turn to people with followers as if that's any indicator of anything. And usually it's only Gawker that fuels my misanthropy...

Completely unaccepting of any who aren't just like them. It's the Catholic way these days. It's their way or the highway and sitting and nodding once a week is the price I pay to not distance them further...some bridges need to be burned and some need to be taken once a week just because of family and ignored the rest…

I can't even buy a review for my self-pub e book.

I don't know whether I believe or not in the Magic Sky Guy and His Son. I go to church because it's what the family does (easier not to make waves) and there are good things in there about treating people with respect and the like. Then I keep hearing the church officials stuck on abortion and gay marriage, like those…

The only time non-white people matter to the Church hierarchy is in requesting more donations to spread the word.

What bugs me, which is sort of tangential, is the idea that a good credit score/money on hand somehow equals financial knowledge and/or stability. I met many people who disproved this in law school. I know a woman who has been bailed out repeatedly by family and, at one point, had all the debts into her husband's name…

Correct. There's no obligation. Wife and I own a house together and have a joint account where we put money each month for the mortgage, utilities and a couple of shared expenses like car insurance and cell phones where we got a deal for joint accounts. Everything else is in an individuals name and solely that…

So true. To those going to discuss: it can be contentious and it sucks. There may be no real resolution.

No, I'd say it's very classist.

I hate to be knee jerk and say "seek counseling," but...yeah.

So true. I would say that discussion goes a long way toward bridging those attitudes...I don't think they are necessarily fixed, but quite often are products of experience that can be dealt with by open communication.

Not entirely true. It may vary state by state, but in NY, for example, my spouse has no legal responsibility for any debts I incurred on my own before marriage or even afterwards, unless she's signing her name too.

I met her first, before reading her books, and she was real cool and...I'm a sucker like that.

Velveteen by Danny Marks would make my personal list.

Yeah, I remember the outcry when the jury convic...oh, when he took the plea deal...no, when the DA indicted, err...when the cops charged...oh, wait, when people got their panties in a twist over rumors and allegations.

But there are other ways to develop the market than an NHL franchise. I can remember my uncle telling me about people paying to watch construction guys he grew up with playing pickup hockey in AZ thirty years ago, because they'd never seen hockey. These are the places where there should be a strategy of placing an…

Mike Brown on line one.

When the highest goal in your life is to hang out with high school students forever...it doesn't take much.

Too true. He was baseball on those warm summer days when I wanted to watch TBS and my Mom made me go outside, so I'd sit on the porch and listen in.

It can't be Wrath Khan, but it could be Space Seed Khan, where the Enterprise finds his sleeper ship with him and his cryo'd followers.