Converts TO Catholicism are the fucking WORST! (Aside from those who just do it for marriage, to please your betrothed’s Catholic parents) They sing the loudest in Mass, volunteer for EVERYTHING (eucharistic minister, CCD teacher, charity drives for Por Cristo) and they are the most stringent Catholics when it comes…

IF we truly are a big tent party, then we have to make room for people who still hold religious beliefs as important and animating to their morality and world view. Abortion, gay rights, and antipathy to Islam are the three tenants of ‘religious conservatives’ and they seek to alienate anyone of religious thought who…

Stop imagining what you would do if you were Tiger and put yourself in HIS shoes.

Rejection didn’t make him toss a child - being a crazy-ass piece of shit made him toss a child. Rejection just comes natural to all that.

This dude clearly not in possession of all of his mental faculties.

Well if you are calling it a democracy, then you did not pay attention in school. We are a REPUBLIC (also sometimes called a representative democracy). And as such, we don’t vote directly on many things. Our representatives do. And that includes the Electoral College. Personally I have been opposed to the Electoral…

It’s called the service bar, and it’s specifically for servers to pick up drink orders. No one is going to yell at you for standing in this area, probably, but be cognizant of staff trying to do their jobs.(i.e. make way for them)

It’s almost as if no one likes the new kid who comes into a new job and starts telling everyone whose been there for years whats what instead of shutting the fuck up and learning.

...so he raised minimum wages to the $15/hr everyone’s screaming about, and by doing so he becomes some kind of asshole? What kind of communism do you prefer, Hamilton Nolan? OF COURSE he’s doing it to score rich-guy points, but he did it...so what’s the fucking problem, exactly?

Jeff Bezos saved WaPo from bankruptcy. Jeff Bezos bought Business Insider and turned it into a premier internet news source. He also removed the commenting function which was greatly appreciated by longtime readers such as myself. Jeff Bezos bought Whole Foods and immediately lowered the prices on salmon, a nutritious…

My undergraduate degree was in astrophysics. I decided not to try to pursue it as a career in part because of people like this author who do not understand the value of science or how amazing it is that astronomers can actually image a black hole (FYI: astronomers take photographs to gather data, not to make pretty…

By rich people, are you referring to the restaurant owners? The average profit margin for a restaurant in the US is between 3 and 5 percent. The idea that most, or even a slight majority of restaurant owners are rolling in cash is played out and inaccurate. 

I believe 15% is an acceptable tip

I always tip 20% unless the waitperson is aggressively bad (and not for things our of their control), but the percentage has kept climbing up, no? I remember 15 years ago reading articles that said 15%, then 15-18, then 18-20, and now a firm 20%. Overall this means a couple bucks difference and I’ve never argued…

LOL my kids are super close in age ...we would all get together on friday nights and put all the kids in the living room to play and we would hang out in the kitchen and have a couple drinks and just let it out. It was a huge savior of my sanity!

Popping the price is less transparent about the reason than the fee. Regular customers won’t use the local ATM; they’ll know to bring cash. Which is weirdly what most all restaurant dining was like 30 years or more ago, except for expensive nights out.

No it shouldn’t be built into food costs. Those paying cash don’t cost the business 3% of their bill, people using credit cards do. So people paying cash shouldn’t have to pay 3% extra and a business shouldn’t have to give up 3% of your bill for your convenience. If a business wants to take a 3% loss for every…

I fully support businesses doing this, but the optics of it can be a bit dicey. I mean, wouldn’t it be better to raise the price of everything by 4% and then give a “4% cash discount!!!!” instead? Or is that going to cause you to look more expensive when people are comparing your $10.40 burger with someone else’s…

You’re an idiot. I am a physician who does attend these dinners. I dont feel any “pressure” to prescribe expensive drugs. I make $500k a year and none of it comes from pharma. $100 is nothing to me, so a $100 drug dinner is not going (or FOMO on one) make me be a lap dog to pharma. My time is valuable; if Im going to…

Oh, don’t you worry, America is well on its way to having a German workers party like it’s 1939.