Absolutely. I’m one of those idiots who went into debt for a grad degree in the social sciences thinking a career in helping people would be a good idea. I’ve been gainfully employed ever since, but I’ll never get out from under those loans I got into because my school was too poor for a guidance counselor or finance…

If my math is right, to earn a billion dollars in a year the per hour pay rate is $500,000. I can’t think of any skill worth paying half a million dollars an hour for, and yet heaven forbid their employee earn $15 an hour. The system is fucked.

Y’know, I thought a food chopper might be a good solution, but the last time I used one I managed to injure my boob. “The food chopper did it!” is both a hilarious and unbelievable explanation when your partner asks where that giant hickey came from. (And thanks for the recipe advice!)

Exactly! I’m a horrible cook with minimal interest in improving because the learning curve is so steep. When you have no knife skills or sense for spices or cooking times, every recipe feels like a battle you’re going to lose. But a lot of the BA folks don’t seem too preoccupied with getting it right; they’re there…

Seconded. Gawker and Jez were my primary reads but all the blogs were in my rotation. I’ve been reading here for at least ten years and while I may not have been super active, I always felt like a part of an awesome community. Without knowing it, y’all got me through a PhD, losing a few family members, a couple of…

Agreed. I honestly enjoy grocery shopping, but I live in a city people than space and Mad Maxing it is a pretty apt description. Pickup at my local store is $4.99 and it’s damn near the best money I’ve ever spent to retain my sanity and limit my hatred of humanity. (But sweet bippity I’ll be happy when I move and can…

Sweet bippity, that blew my mind! Rage really does age you. 

That’s true, but I wonder if it wouldn’t at least be the start of a better system for taking these videos down. It’s a small change, but having a policy to violate may give you something to build on, while throwing your hands up and having no policy just keeps the status quo in place. 

Agreed. I don’t give a single whit about sports, but Deadspin won me over with solid content over the years. These sites are on a very short list of content I’d legit pay for. 

Yeah, I’d appreciate a heads up. I don’t have any smart speakers or the like in my home, so I don’t know what they look like or how they function. I work with confidential data and while I obviously don’t discuss the confidential aspects of my work, I wouldn’t discuss my work at all if I knew someone had a smart…

But now Jay-Z’s working with the NFL, so...everyone’s terrible here. Except Rihanna.

In a lot of parishes, a baptism is much more than pageantry. Their child is now a member of the Church, has completed their first Sacrament, and it’s likely the Church will reach out to the family when it’s time for catechism and their First Holy Communion, etc., especially given their dwindling numbers. To the mother…

I’ve always had a hard time really getting the scope of that myself, so I did some quick math. Assuming a millionaire sleeps for 8 hours of the day, they’d need to spend $171 every waking hour for a year to spend a million dollars A billionaire, on the other hand, would need to spend $171,232 every waking hour to…

This line of thinking has never made sense to me. I assume candidates are still interested if they haven’t withdrawn their candidacy. This isn’t the rush of a first teenage crush where everyone needs constant reassurance that they’re still The One.

Agreed. When I’m on the hiring end, I skim the thank you notes I receive and mostly think, “Sure, okay, thanks for giving me yet another email to delete.” When I’m on the interviewing end, it’s a helpful litmus test: If you opt to pass on my skills because I was polite and interested but didn’t kiss up in exactly the…

It’s bonkers that so many professions have minimum competency standards and required ongoing education, while our lawmakers can just come as they are.

I don’t know that it’s any consolation, but I was part of my crazy addict dad’s second family. If I ever met his other children, the first thing I’d tell them is that despite appearances to the contrary, they were so much better off without him. Abandoning them was the most decent thing he could’ve done other than,…

Okay, thanks! On one hand, I think he fails spectacularly most of the time, but on the other hand I’ll give him credit for what he’s trying to do. 

It like people have forgotten she steals all her best bits from other singers. She’s mediocre at best on her own merits. 

Are those bits supposed to be funny? Sue and Mel did such a good job of encouraging the bakers that Noel throwing them off their game reads as almost disrespectful.