In a fair and balanced manner.

One time at a Redwings game I snarked heavily over the FIFTH freaking “salute the troops” thing the crowd was asked to stand up for. The people in front of me kept turning back and glaring at me for the rest of the game. I feel oddly vindicated right now, and wondering why ever would have thought any of this was…

Yeah, by the time I finish, I’m like “oh FINE the canister is full!” I do notice it more when I go through phases of working out at home. One set of pushups and I’m convinced of the need to vacuum. If I only see the floor from sitting or standing, I don’t see it.

The problem for Republican and facts is that facts have a well-known liberal bias.

I am truly confused by all this.

I think a period of living on one’s own is critical. The biggest manbabies I’ve known went from home to dorm to live in girlfriend to wife. Guys who have lived by themselves for any period of time tend to figure these things out.

My husband commiserates. After several “discussions,” I’ve gotten better at it. I think we’re almost equitable now after years and years. I’m really trying, but I’m totally one of those “I don’t see that it’s dirty” and “I’ll do it laaaaaater” people.

I’m another wife who is The Worst, although I’ve gotten better over the past few years. I do the vacuuming now, and every time I think “why do we have to do this every week it’s not even dirty I DO THIS CAUSE I LOVE YOU.” No really. We only have two cats. I don’t see why it needs to be vacuumed every week, but I’m…

Many, many industries. It’s basically the American way. Protestant work ethic and all that shit.

There was an article a while that made the rounds about a woman on stamps talking about her Mercedes. She’d had the car for years before falling on truly hard times. It made zero sense to sell a reliable but heavily depreciated car and get a jalopy instead. And once she got off food stamps, she kept driving the same…

“Buzzfeed gets it right” - there’s a phrase I never thought I’d see.

Yeah, I heard that, and tried that, and the cops always show up. Since then, I’ve met actual cops, and it’s part of their job to show up to these court dates.

I recommended that book on io9 a while back and everyone jumped all over me about how terrible it is and how the right brain thing has been discredited even though I mentioned that in the first place. Oy. And yet, it taught me to draw for sure. It hardly made me a pro, but it totally cracked open the whole thing.

I feel that way about aspartame, but find the aftertaste of sucralose to be a worthy tradeoff for having my flavored water be zero calories. But good lord diet coke makes me feel like I’m licking tin for the next two hours.

I discovered sucralose recently and I’m basically in love with it. It doesn’t taste like a tin can! I do also like stevia though. But I only consume these as parts of processed drinks, never from packets, so that might be the difference.

I get so defensive about Oakland but then I remember that my husband was mugged and had his motorcycle stolen. In separate incidents. And someone got murdered in a friend’s apartment complex near the Whole Foods. My Oakland defensiveness gets reduced to “But Lake Merritt! And restaurants! And did you know there is…

So, who in your opinion are the worst fans in the Bay? Genuinely asking. I lived in the Bay Area for 5 years and hated them all. Ok, except Sharks fans but living in Oakland I never really interacted with them.

Oakland weather is way more pleasant than NY weather in November. They can be excited about that?

I just moved from Oakland to a, uh, third or fourth tier Midwestern city and I miss it constantly. But the comments about Raiders fans are spot on. The one benefit of moving here is getting away from Raiders and 49ers fans. Into the insanity of the fans of the local FCS school.

After all the making fun of Rachel Dolezal, when are we going to seriously get into the weird “transracialness” of Jeb?