I graduated from college with a degree in journalism in 1991, right when there was a recession going on. I lived in a smallish city that was an hour away (in two different directions) from a major city with a much better job market. I had student loans, so I took a crappy overnight weekend job in a steel muffler…

Which is pretty much the definition of concern trolling.

Pretty much yes. If you are also An Old®, then you might remember that oh-so-very-rapey Woodstock 99 that was resurrected in the mid-90s.

Right?! Also, which concert?

I think this is exactly why I don’t want to see pole dancing turned into an Olympic sport. (There’s been a campaign for several years to try to make that happen.) The other major reason I’m against it is: no two pole dancers can agree on what a given trick is called and/or what variations are “correct.” I think…

1. She knocked that shit right outta the park.

My company just went through a round of layoffs. I wonder if we work(ed) for the same company. I managed to dodge the bullet, but I half-kinda-sorta wish I had actually been laid off because severance. Those of us who are left are now faced with doing the jobs of 2 or 3 people because we were already running pretty…

I still think he was suicidal and perhaps just not brave enough to find a grizzly bear and go all Timothy Treadwell.

Wait, hold up. Could you please clarify exactly how this change affects the thing they care about? Because I don’t see how it does. I’ve had a number of different job titles and it doesn’t matter. In fact, when I started this job, my title was “Instructional Designer.” That is a completely different thing from what I…

So. Am I the only person who wondered, “Who the fuck still does coke anymore?”

Okay, now I’m jealous and totally want to go see Dolly.

Fair warning: I am obsessed with time travel stories, so I may have liked that book on that basis alone.

It was so frustrating to watch her seem to have no sense at all that there were completely different sensibilities in the 18th century vs. the 20th. Even I’m aware enough to realize that I couldn’t be marching around, spitting out orders to men, telling them what to do and being bossy and opinionated. The first book…

The exact same thing bothered me about the books as well. Somewhere around Book 3 or 4, she starts to realize that some “facts” she thinks she knows do not exactly come about the way she thinks they did/will. I think she also starts coming around to the idea that you can’t change history at all.

I have a rescued 75-pound pibble. She’s a sweetie head and super friendly with strangers.

Because murderers don’t cut the actual lines?

Amen. A few years ago, I learned the sentence “Others’ opinions of me is none of my business.”

I think we all know the complainer doesn’t have a single non-tacky item in her entire wardrobe.

I hate when people cannot seem to grok that there’s this thing called taste and everyone’s taste is different. Just because YOU don’t like something, that doesn’t mean it has no merit for anyone, anywhere, ever.

Oh! This is a TOTALLY different story than the misplaced modifier in the headline implies. I thought the cops shot her daughters and THEN shot her also.