Interesting (and should not be surprising but kind of is) story about smoking and air on planes. I have read that they currently replace about 40 percent. Not ideal, if you’re not sitting next to someone you stand a chance. Of course, measles can linger in the air for hours after a cough so if you don’t have the…

I get a flu shot every damn year, because I’m an asthmatic. I’ve seriously done this for more than 30 years. And every time I get my flu shot and it comes up at work someone says, “You can get the flu from those, I hear.” No, you can’t. People are stupid. And I’d say they deserve the flu, but no one deserves the flu.…

Yes. It’s what I said. Or, to put it another way, unless the person tweeting about the “coughing foreigner” is Japanese, then the tweeter is actually the foreigner.

Is the person tweeting this Japanese? Otherwise isn’t he/she the foreigner? 

Seems like it.

Huh. I guess it’s never too soon for me to start my career counseling business for fertilized eggs. “Tell me, fertilized egg, what would you say is your greatest strength.” “I’m a real outside of the box thinker.” “Tell me about your greatest weakness?” “Well, I think I’m just a little too driven, I just work too hard…

Yup. 

Chicago spent $131 million defending Burge’s torture squad. And I don’t know how much subverting justice on the LaQuon McDonald shooting. So multiply that by like 1,000 I would guess. And don’t forget the lawsuit payouts. Because it can take decades, but eventually the wrong is proven and the people who were wronged?…

Insurance is the worst and many of my fellow Boomers are fortunate enough not to get this. I only do because of the following two examples.

Wow. It’s a black coat dress and not a blue dress, but this is getting odd here. Also, our President is a full on rapist. No question.

I love this rule. I mean, I must have heard about it before but it didn’t stick. What a rule!

I loved Living Single but didn’t discover it until late in the run. Whenever and wherever it is in reruns? I watch. It was fantastic! The lines and the actresses (in particular) were brilliant.

No! (I say as I clutch my pearls in disbelief.) This shocks me. 

I suspect the car is not for her to “do shit.” It’s for her to cart the kids around in. I’ll bet if she uses it for personal enjoyment she’d hear about it super fast. Just a hunch.

And you know you will not be held accountable. 

That is the thing about a health screening. Everyone it catches does not necessarily have the disease in question. But it’s one of those civil society things. Society depends on the innate decency of humans to tell the truth, then those honest humans suffer personal inconvenience for the greater good. Without that?…

See, I would read the hell out of Nancy and George solving the Hardy Boys tragic murder. But this one? I’ll pass. 

Two years of this might pay off your student loans. Or perhaps put aside that travel budget. Hey, it’s not like you’re shopping with the money. You won’t even have time for etail. 

It is, but it does include a place to live and a car. I wouldn’t care about the car (that’s just for toting the kids around) but a free place to live probably adds a lot to the value of that salary, no? Don’t get me wrong, this is a terrible job. But some people love terrible jobs. I have myself from time to time. 

You know, when I first saw and heard her I liked Tulsi Gabbard. And I have my problems with Hillary Clinton. But then someone told me about Gabbard and Syria and I read up a bit. Then I found out that Gabbard got elected to her first public office by taking a stand against Gay Marriage. Like that was her main campaign…