Many if not most of your professors work all year but are only paid for 9 months.

Because many (Humanities) professors teaching 3-4 courses a semester have to focus mostly on teaching, they almost always have to do research and writing during the summers...unpaid.

Exactly! It makes total logical sense, literally, to hold students to a higher standard than a famous writer! #snark ;)

What about the comma splice!?

New cars. I've bought two and gave up. They cost too much monthly and then there's always going to be maintenance. I've actually had better luck with the used Jeep Cherokee I bought for $1000, and what repairs I've had to have done over 2.5 yrs add up to roughly $150/month—if I'm rounding up.

A female friend of mine and I were having drinks with a couple other friends, at some point, a male stranger struck up a conversation with her as he passed our booth. He sat down, said something funny, and she touched his arm. He immediately throw it into high gear and kept trying to get her to go to some party with…

Ummm, the guy throwing with him has a tighter spiral.

Yeah. I really have mixed feelings about athletic departments. On the one hand, playing football got me into college (mostly), but on the other, it was really challenging to keep up with the coursework after a few hours of practice each afternoon. And I teach at a university and have seen the schedules/binders of our…

Do you have the link to the salaries? I can't find it anymore. (i.e., public institutions publish the salaries of their employees).

I have to disagree. Stories matter. Individual stories can accrue into a grand narrative. In this case, the narrative is one that runs counter to perspectives like Bill O'Reilly's that there's no such thing as white privilege. These stories fly in the face of his narrative.

And it doesn't help when state governments continue to cut funding for higher education: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&i…

This! Lost all my He-Man he-men. And a box with hundreds of the Empire Strikes Back cards. :(

i hear this a lot, but, well, I think you're math is way off. Just because someone doesn't have a large savings doesn't mean they can't afford the house payments. I lost most of my saving in a divorce and was renting for significantly more than what I pay for the mortgage. By your logic, having $50k is enough to buy a…

Thanks for this detail.

Homeworld, HW2, Battlezone, Halo.

Problem with Problem 1: Those in power of using and controlling the word shouldn't also have power over what's considered a slur by those targeted by the slur. That's the point.

"I will say, if a LARGE majority of the population has no problem with the name. Then there's no need for people like Harry Reid to turn this into some other big political move that he can put his name on to look progressive."

I really do hope this is sarcasm, because the point is that the "majority of people" (at…

Maybe Bungie should have asked Yes for another awesome end-credits song:

Of course, of greatest concern are the Olympic barbell lifts. What I liked about the first CrossFit gym I joined was that everyone was require to take a 6-class course introducing you to the lifts as well as the other most common CrossFit exercises. These were small classes with tons of attention paid to form. And…

How does the process work if you are buying a home that is currently a rental property (assessed as commercial), but you're moving into it (so now it's residential)?

Exactly. I called, wrote, and emailed my landlord several times without ever getting my security deposit back. When he did answer the phone (likely bc he forgot my number and who was calling), he would first say he'd send it, then not. Later it became, "I don't have the paperwork anymore, so what do you want me to…