It’s not an arbitrary dollar amount. It’s a ratio to employee salary. If the company is doing well, everyone who works there should make more money. That’s not the case.

Agreed. Charles Bronson just never got the British accent right.

Thanks to you, I have a new fantasy: The billionaire who steps forward and says “I’ll give the U.S. $100 billion dollars if I can have an ironclad guarantee that not one penny of it will be spent on the military . . . with the exception of Veterans Affairs benefits.”

Nobody is saying good management isn’t important. It’s vital to the success of any venture. Thanks to people like Bill Gates, thousands of people have jobs. But does he deserve $107 billion for that? Would $7 billion be enough to show our appreciation for his contribution and to allow him to live comfortably? And…

I had that one already loaded. I used to teach college writing during the peak of War on Christmas and had far too many students wanting to write that essay. So I had to come up with a logical counter argument. 

I’d say it depends on the advice they’re giving. If it’s “Try to start saving money early” or “always check the foundation for water before buying a house” or “you won’t regret that you didn’t work more” then, no. If the advice is “we need to build the wall because they’re coming for our jobs” or “coal is a perfectly…

Is Jesus the green chick in the middle?

The Last Jedi made $1.3 billion. Yet, according to the Internet, it is widely reviled, an indisputable creative disaster, and universally accepted as a failure financially.

profit/logistics

The Whole Foods in my town (Portland, Maine) has a permanent cop on duty at the entrance and a cruiser parked in a nearby visible location. Because, you see, there is a homeless shelter five blocks in one direction and the projects five blocks in the other direction, and us white people need to feel safe when buying…

I think the creators on the show think they’re writing prestige television “complicated characters,” but the way they’re trying to get there is with cheap pulpy twists. There’s a difference between nuanced, complex storytelling and constantly trying to pull the rug out from under the audience. They seem to be writing…

I think what we’re seeing is the meaning of “Boomer” changing to not mean an old person in general but a specific type of old person. The word is being used to identify a Boomer mentality: selfish, gluttonous, variably racist/sexist, regressive, close-minded, misinformed at best, willfully ignorant at worst, clinging…

Yes, but that doesn’t invalidate the importance of the specific issues the generations are whining about. We still need to deal with climate change. We still shouldn’t be putting children in cages. We still shouldn’t be fomenting white supremacy around the world. These are all things Boomers have directly or…

It’s their hypocrisy. The things you listed defined them for about 5 years. By the late 70s they stopped being the Hippy Generation and became the Me Generation. They grew cynical about the things they believed in their youth because the entire world didn’t instantly bend to their will (change is hard, go figure!).…

I’m waiting for the inevitable bumper sticker on the back of a Lincoln: “Boomer Lives Matter.”

My biggest issue with the Boomers is their hypocrisy. They will talk ENDLESSLY about how the things they did when they were young changed the world, yet they refuse to give the current young people a chance to do the same because that would mean relinquishing power and that would mean admitting that their way is no…

Luckily, I’m equipped with a trademark Gen-X ironic detachment and cynical worldview. So, when they come for me, I’ll just shrug, mumble “whatever,” and go back to talking about random pop culture from my childhood. Like, remember when they called Christine “Moose,” but, like, she was the most attractive girl on You…

They better be! If the kids who come after me aren’t better than me, then we’re not progressing as a society/culture/species. It doesn’t matter if I agree with them because I’ll no longer be relevant . . . just like Boomers are now.

Same.

Of all the “TIM COOK WANTS AN EMMY!” scenes Carrell is in (which is basically every scene Carrell is in), I hope that’s the clip they play at the awards ceremony next year.