Once in third grade, my father off-handedly mentioned that under the Constitution, we didn’t actually have to stand up and do the Pledge of Allegiance. So me being the third grade dink that I was, the next day I stayed seated for the Pledge at my local private school, and was promptly sent to the pastor and the…

“We are a peaceful group, and wish to keep it that way at all costs,” the statement continued. “We aren’t looking for a fight. We in fact, want the opposite. We want to put on a smile, shake some hands, and be friendly. An armed society is a polite society.”

As an outside observer a lot of weird traditions are bred solely on even weirder rules that religion declares arbitrarily, and for some reason people INSIST on sticking to these rules, as interpreted through changing times and technology by people who insist THEY should be the harbinger of the sky being, despite there…

Yeah I thought that was really weird to have here. They took the step when so many corporate landlords aren’t doing shit.  Like why are they being called out here?

I think it’s pretty fair to say this outbreak is China’s baby, as its origin is from a Southern Mainland Chinese cultural practice that all levels of government have refused to deal with despite it being a well-known source of contagion (not to mention the environmental impact) and it only became a serious problem…

I don’t know how their test ended up, but here’s what Mythbusters and research by a professional driving instructor (me) has come up with.

This is an excellent post that fully encapsulates both the history and significance of the Air Force One livery. I once had the amazing opportunity to see both VC-25A’s in person and they were glorious. My significant other works for DOD and I happily tag along on some official trips when I’m allowed.

The Taco Bell ones are great, but the McDonald’s ones are kind of messed up. Like, I know there’s a six-piece nugget on the menu, but I can’t for the life of me find it on the kiosk screen. Plus the screens at McD are like, overwhelmingly large. I’m not sure if it’s an accessibility thing or not, but if it isn’t,…

THANK YOU.

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

The woman holding her naked baby swinging its piss soaked feet near my face? Sit down.
Old couple who can’t wipe their ass but want to bend and reach? Sit down.
Big man, rubbing your bare gut on my shoulder peeking out from beneath your flannel shirt? Sit your big ass DOWN.
Four foot woman who wants someone to pull…

Live music for me, please. My favorite (now closed) restaurant in Milwaukee -- Tulip; Turkish cuisine -- used to have a Romanian couple play Carpathian folk two nites a week with their supper service.

This is BS. If freed slaves got their 40 acres and a mule like they were promised then fewer would have needed to sharecrop and could have accumulated wealth.

Really starting to think that Batman: The Animated Series is the best representation of Batman.

I’m sure that works in some places but often it’s easy to spot bartenders that do gender preference or simply so caught up in the busy rush that they can’t remember who is next. I’ve watched plenty of smaller women squeeze by me or next to me in order to grab a male bartender’s attention and have him easily forget I…

You can have the armrests in the middle seat but YOU CANNOT EXCEED THE ARMRESTS. Your elbow and half your arm do NOT get to come into my own tiny seat. Stop that right now.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!!?

The garbage blue line folk, here it is.

Giardiniera should be on this list. Try finding that outside Chicago, nobody knows what it is. The Subways around here even have it, which led me to believe all Subways had 'em. Once I was in rural Pennsylvania, and the Subway there didn't have no Giardiniera. I tried to explain, they thought I was nus, man. What a…