Haha, yeah. I grew up in a trailer park with a bunch of super poor people. Some were amazing, generous and wonderful people, some were violent thieves who spent time in prison for child molestation. Most were somewhere in between.

I don’t fly very much. I’ve definitely experienced situations where flights were overbooked and the airline was trying to get people to give up their seat, but that was always before we boarded. Is it normal to try to kick people off the flight once they’re already boarded? How is it legal to kick people off a plane…

I agree that Ivanka is as bad as her father, but the story about her finding out about her parents’ divorce from the newspaper has always made me feel bad, for two reasons.

My favorite part of that story is that she tells it willingly, with no embarrassment, bragging about how entrepreneurial she and her siblings are. Those apples didn’t fall far from the grifter tree, and have about the same amount of self-awareness.

That’s the funny bit about this whole thing. Mar-a-Lago was initially built as a big, tacky rich person estate, but the owner willed it to the US Government to be the Southern White House. The government then judged the property to be too expensive to operate, too insecure, and wholly inappropriate for a presidential…

Nah - Mar-a-Lago is still open to a very select portion of the public, who have not shown themselves to be terribly discreet, posting things to social media. When the government wants to have a discreet, and secure place to hide their chaotic negotiations away from the White House, that’s exactly why the government…

Yeah, I’m no fan of Walmart, but I lived in a really small hippy town where everyone pretended they didn’t shop at Walmart, but if you didn’t shop there you had to either drive ten hours to the nearest large city or mail order in basic items like underwear, linens, and tools. There were all sorts of niche,…

This is a good point, and where his reality TV “stay tuned” refusal to disclose his position and plans is going to become increasingly problematic. And, I mean, it’s ridiculous that his lack of transparency often comes less from an autocratic evasiveness than on his desire to keep people in suspense. Also, admittedly,…

Nope. I try to work with people from the place they’re coming from. I will say, I wasn’t working at a top tier school, so generally the super rich kids I dealt with were a pretty good indication that you can quite easily dump $100K into a kid’s education and still end up with far worse results than people going to…

I’m no Trump defender, but I think the whole action in Syria, including notifying the Russians beforehand, is possibly the most predictable and conventional of his actions as president. This is how international diplomacy currently works: someone does something the US doesn’t like, and they don’t want to start an…

Is “twerking” now slang for laxative abuse? It’s hard to keep up with teh youths these days.

And weirdly, unless those people are ostentatiously, private jet level, Rich Kids of Instagram wealthy, they don’t actually consider themselves to be rich. Usually because once you reach that social strata, there are always people who are cartoonishly rich enough that you feel poor by comparison. I’ve taught a lot of…

Our cat used to be incredibly meek and submissive and then we bought him a crazy spiked wrist band for a collar (a lot like this: http://www.hottopic.com/product/black-spike-bracelet/10292581.html) and his personality changed overnight he became this strutting asshole who beat up on the other cat who used to be the…

I’m probably the only person who likes the show Elementary, but whatever, but my favorite part about that is that you have a woman and a man who are able to maintain a very close, platonic relationship with no weird sexual tension or constant will-they-or-won’t-they winking and nudging telegraphing to them eventually…

So weird seeing those old candid films of him. It’s dumb, but we were the same age, so I always think of us as being the same age. So it’s weird to see how young he is and remember he’s not getting older along with the rest of us. He looks like a baby in those videos.

Most hilarious part of this is the linked NYT article is titled “John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He wants Another Chance.”

Yes, exactly this. Even if - by some miracle - these assclowns accidentally managed to pass some legislation, there is no one in place to actually implement it. They’ve “leaned” the government managerial level down to the point where they’ll be able to sort of manage the status quo, but they’ll be underwater if they…

Yeah, as a non-American, I find it funny to see prospective American tourists biting their nails nervously anticipating the possibility of traveling abroad. You guys realize that lots of people internationally consider YOUR country to be weirdly dangerous, right? I had friends who only lasted a year living in the US -…

I worked at a high end clothing store where they actually did their best to provide a variety of sizes, and actually do orders based on the sizes of people who shopped, or wanted to shop there. Their best customer was a size 14/16 woman. They struggled to find higher end brands that offered clothes in her size, but…

Maybe look for thrift shops in nice neighbourhoods versus vintage stores? I live in Canada and there is a chain of second hand stores here who buy clothes that come packed in bales from the North Eastern US - no doubt donated to charities there and actually destined for the rag trade. So much men’s dress clothes,…