I don’t get why someone would think that limiting your expenses to 30K per year to avoid punching a clock is a good idea. Yeah, limiting your expenses is good, but you could also try doing something, anything that you don’t actively hate, and pocket a little more to live on. I’d rather have a part time job and spring…

I think the context most people typically mean when they say ‘not working’ is more like ‘not eating shit.’ If I had a job that I couldn’t leave because I had zero plan for not having the next paycheck, I would eat a lot of shit to keep that job. No one wants that.

The question revolves around how much influence a CEO really has over a company. Boards of public companies seek to select officers that will manage the company well enough to increase the value of the public shares. In theory, a good CEO will lead the company’s shares to increase in value at a rate higher than…

This is wrong because public companies already disclose their corporate officers’ compensation plans in their annual reports. The new thing is that the ‘average worker’ part and the ability to form a ratio.

This is a good point. I’d just add that whatever investment you pick should be rather liquid so you can pull it out if you need it to keep current with your car payment. There are plenty of savings accounts at 1.45% that would serve that purpose.

If you fall behind on credit card debt, for example, the lender may hire a debt collector or ask a court to garnish your wages until you’re caught up on payments.

Does anyone remember the box the phys ed teacher used to have for measuring the sit-and-reach test in school?

I also didn’t know that anyone could just up and change the name of their street.

Nothing wrong with avoiding PTA, but be aware that the decisions on what happens with the PTA money and events may not be what you like. The old “if you don’t vote, don’t complain” saying actually makes sense here.

You can expend huge amounts of energy trying to get your kids to learn table manners, but nothing you do will ever be as effective as one of their friends seeing them stick their fingers in a bowl of mac and cheese and screaming ‘GROOOSSS’ right in their faces. This is one of the rare things that peers can police that…

Everyone who drove these looked like this, no exceptions

There was a dumb meme a while ago that suggested entering a normal person into every Olympic event so that viewers get a sense of scale on how difficult it is to perform at that level. She could go with that.

That’s such a puzzling way to describe whatever happened there. If Taft was too heavy for horses, he presumably walked up the mountain before having to walk back down. I guess his climbing wasn’t impressive enough to rate a mention, but his stomping down the trail must have been something else.

Based on my college experience, I’d be more worried about the ghosts of 1990s fraternity bros with white ballcaps and puka shell necklaces patrolling for one of the two things they went to Amsterdam for.

The police academy was a huge disappointment. Nowhere near as zany or madcap as Police Academy. 

No, he was not right. To his credit, he later came back to our class and corrected his earlier statements about it. Apparently someone approached him privately and debunked the thing.

When I was in the police academy, we had a senior instructor tell us that the word ‘picnic’ was racist and we shouldn’t use it. His idea was that it evolved from when people would ‘pick a n-’ and watch a lynching while enjoying a meal. It was so outlandish but no one questioned it at the time, because this was a…

If you lit Sean McDermott on fire and then put him out with Genny...

Here are some other 2000 kickers I remember.

Errr - keeping scrolling down, there was someone in the sixth round who ended up working out.