Huh. So, off to find out about that, too. Thanks, internet stranger.

Great article. And my employer (a nonprofit) provides a 403b, which is even worse when it comes to fees (presumeably including target fund fees). I auto-enrolled when I came on board and did the target funds but when I caught my breath (much later than I wish to admit) I went with index funds. The difference in fees…

Ok, that’s a pretty good looking squirrel.

Yeah, so many questions. Like, I wonder if the people-replacing pods will hit the whole country at once or just hit the east coast first?

Yeah, during the last crash I lost my job. Worked out, I was able to find something fairly quickly, but it gave me pause for thought.

Why can’t I just star you anymore. This article is very good. Very, very good.

I voted Bernie in the primary for some reason, but bounced to Hillary during the general. Actually, before the general. As I learned more about Bernie, I liked him less and less. As an old person there are two votes that stick in my craw. One is my general election vote for Dukakis (I just never really liked him but…

Waitstaff make $2.13 an hour. There is an assumption that their tips will (at the least) make up the difference.

The server makes $2.13 an hour in the US. The rest of their income is from tips—which are also taxed. So if every person on their shift tips $2 less? Well, that’s a lot. Since, you know, they make $2.13 an hour. BTW, side work? Where wait staff clean tables, fill ketchup bottles, and in some heinous places even clean b…

You’re right, so I have put together a first draft of the part where they explain not tipping “...We don’t tip because we are trying to train the restaurant to include the cost of service in the meal itself. It’s not that we can’t afford to tip (we can, we make good money), but we don’t want to reinforce the system by…

I was at a restaurant years ago where some parents changed their baby’s diaper ON THE TABLE. My dining companion/friend went off on them and their response, “That’s ok—we already finished our meal.” Reader, their dirty dishes had been pushed to the side. To. the. side.

I think maybe they don’t get on as great as he thinks they do. Also? Thanksgiving is going to be super awkward this year.

Mandarin Duck is just like you and me but so, so much better looking. Also, Mandarin Duck is an effortless world traveler. Damn you, Mandarin Duck! You are giving me a complex.

So polite, really.

His name is Barry King. And he’s a gyno. Everyone, keep this name front and center because I would never want to be his patient and neither should anyone else. This guy has no business providing any medical treatment to women.

I can’t even watch Chuck Todd. He’s just intellectually lazy and toothless, or at least that’s how he comes across. My sense is that the knows there are issues he could challenge the person with but he is either unprepared or unwilling to challenge them. I get it, I don’t always remember everything that’s happened,…

Only here to say that the picture is the lovely Apple Store where I recently went and realized that 1) I am too old to understand the consumer-as-starling self-organized-system approach that Apple apparently uses to serve clients (“most people start at the tree”) and 2) I am almost old enough to be the cranky granny…

I love St. Louis and area. Don’t live there, but I go there a few times a year, usually by car. If you have a car, these are my thoughts.

The Crown Prince had his people dismember a living human. Dismember. Alive. I can’t even with these people.

Canada Geese are the bullies of the bird world. And whatever you do? Don’t meet their eyes. They will beak you. So aggressive. So very aggressive.