I was giving you stars, but any smart person realizes that they benefit from government-funded projects, services, personnel. How much benefit varies, and what you’d trade for it varies, but intelligent people easily come to that conclusion on their own. It isn’t “plagiarism” to think so.

You don’t need to suck off the teet of others?

Neither has feudalism. I’ll take the rich minority getting culled over the poor majority any day. Why in the world should I care about the rich, they’re virtually a different species at this point, literal parasites on the stable society a generation of liberal economics created. They have nothing in common with me,…

Nice try, but try again using the Real Rate of Return:

Taxing the wealthy is not stealing. Income inequality is stealing. You are dead wrong. Countries that have a robust social safety net have nowhere near the homeless problem we have. People are malnourished here and the programs you speak of are woefully underfunded. This is only going to get worse and people will be…

Even if you are solidly middle income and put away a nice IRA/401k/403b you could be screwed if the market goes south when you retire. That’s why Social Security exists. SS is not designed to give you a nice retirement it is designed to keep you from having to eat cat food in your dotage. And no it’s not broke,…

Ha, nope, I just read a LOT of advice columns. It’s relatively easy to dish out online; I’m sure actually being a columnist or counselor is way, way harder.

I like how when taxes are cut for the rich and we criticize it, we all get yelled at about how “it’s not a zero-sum game!!”

10000000%. Here’s what I can tell you about families: they’re systems. They literally never have one, randomly-occurring ass hole. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re all ass holes (sometimes it does), but it does mean that Morgan’s behavior has been reinforced since time immemorial. Not only that, it’s been…

I would be sifting through animal dung if it meant I could work in whatever ecology job at some point in my life. We don’t know what field she is in, but theres a starting point for everything - or even unconventionally (I couldn’t get a job at Leo Burnett, so I tried for law marketing... ended up as a receptionist,…

I love Codependent No More, and her workbook on the 12 steps was also helpful.

Hey there Brit!

I would just like to point out that we don’t know what her field is. While I totally agree that she needs to get some form of employment while still looking for something in her field, if I had a degree in, say, marine paleo-ecology, I’d still be hopeful to find something - cuz I’d have to really love that field to…

yeah, that’s why “friends with benefits” is often a more accurate descriptor of where I end up in these situations. I’m a friendly person, I get a long with most people. I’ve dated everything from girly cliche ugg boot wearing sorority girls, to weed smoking festival going hippies and have enjoyed myself equally. I…

This entire family has used the childhood chant “I’m rubber you’re glue” as their method of relating to one another.

Right. Out. The. Gate. - which unless you know someone or the CEO is your dad... its a DREAM ON situation.

but I just couldn’t bring myself to outright ask a Tinder match for sex.

My first car was a 1973 Pontiac Ventura, purchased by me in 1983.

My only warning about it would be that you can count on it being “casual” maybe the first time if you’re lucky; these people catch feelings, especially if they’re hooking up with someone whose head is as squarely on her shoulders as yours seems to be.

I’m Minnesotan, so I don’t use my horn. I stare at them passive aggressively and talk about them after they leave.