I think the automatic assumption for this rule tends to be "misogyny," and your explanation defies that.

Yes, since unemployment among the non-college educated is currently at something like 16%. Among those with a PhD? Approximately 6%.

Despite the "99%" thing a couple of years back (and please don't take this as a criticism, I'm highly sympathetic to those individuals) the rise in unemployment during the 2008-current…

Everyone who swore up and down that Video 3 would address all of our objections may now line up over here, single file, to apologize.

Why are we giving gifts to newlyweds at all, when they're going to enjoy substantially higher lifetime incomes as a result of being married? They should be giving gifts to their single friends.

If employers are unable to fill their positions based on their unrealistic requirements, then they will have to lower the requirements for the position.

No, that's not right. There's plenty of fructose in regular corn syrup, it's not pure glucose. For one thing, it chemically can't be - glucose isomerizes to fructose, spontaneously (but at a slow rate.) And even if that weren't true, corn syrup producers use enzymes to isomerize quite a bit of the glucose to fructose,…

It's not "something else entirely", though. They're almost exactly the same. The difference is the extra 5% fructose in so-called "high-fructose" corn syrup. Other than that, identical - except there's not a giant food-scare movement around regular corn syrup (yet.)

All corn syrup is now genetically modified from frankencorn.

I'd say it's exactly the opposite. Most electromechanical devices are analog contortions meant to emulate logic and timing functions that are better handled digitally. Ever see a tone-wheel synthesizer? (Look it up on wikipedia.) There's a great example of the contortions you have to go through to store an analog…

I take a couple of days off every three months or so. 1) It's less of an interruption for other people, because they don't have to plan around an annual two or more weeks when I'm just not there to do the work. 2) It fits more naturally in my wife's work schedule, for the same reason. 3) I don't get back from…

I'd suggest a more natural turn of phrase. "Professional" doesn't have to mean "corporate drone-speak."

(new computers, office supplies, bonuses for staff, office lease, utilities, upgrading of our systems, etc.)

Ugh, nightmarish. One vacation a year? What do you do, like, the week after your vacation when you're back to being "compressed"?

Oh, poor baby! With nothing but 100% of the firm's profits to console you.

Keep the faith, buddy. Somebody will build a force-feedback electronic "stick shift" and "clutch pedal" that you can fit into your car, and it'll feel just like a manual transmission, even though all it's doing is sending commands to the automatic. (Don't get me wrong - I'll buy one for my car, too.)

But you don't "throw money away" on rental. That money hires services like maintenance, management, utilities (sometimes), structure insurance, and other costs that are higher for homeowners; pays for luxuries like downtown location, access to mass transit and dense development, and reduced carbon emissions, many of…

The fact is there are plenty of real estate markets that have increased in value in the last 30 years or so.

But it isn't growing, it's shrinking. Because you didn't gain hundreds of thousands of dollars, you borrowed it, and the principal of your loan is growing at its interest rate, reducing your net worth.

Meaning, don't look at purely as something you'll buy and then sell for a profit later.

No, you're not "throwing it away." You're contracting a service - the services of maintenance, upkeep, management, and structure insurance. All of which you continue to pay for on your "rent-free" house, by the way.