Actually, not necessarily true. I have many times warned customers away from a particular product. Usually it was actually because the product was bad.

When I rule the world the punishment for snapping your fingers to summon a server shall be the loss of said digits. I can’t even read a description of someone doing that without a red haze descending across my vision.

In the story about the scandalous folks on TLC over at Gawker, I posted about the psychological concept of Social Comparison Theory. It’s worth repeating here.

Big Business, Organized Labor, and the Tea Party are all sitting around a table. A plate of delicious warm cookies arrives. Big Business takes 11 of the cookies then turns to Tea Party and points to the remaining cookie and says "psst! Organized Labor is trying to take your cookie!"

You know what, I’m going to copy&paste a really good post I saw on Tumblr. Not my words, but I wish they were because they are so right.

But then you would lower the need for government assistance, which would scale back the employment for programs like welfare, which would then give less topics for political pundits to fight over, which would kill ratings/page views, which would kill jobs. Won't someone think about the political columnists?!

And on the other side of the equation, fast food employees would be able to afford to you know, live. Possibly even buying stuff beyond items needed for base survival, thus stimulating the economy and all that fun stuff.

Maybe these corporations could use all the money they spending lobbying* politicians and use it to pay their employees like human beings. Or we could keep sliding into a cyberpunk megacorp dystopia. No matter how cool living in a William Gibson novel sounds, we should probably choose human decency.

Bless my soul have I got a story!

Summer camp was for rich kids.

Any similarity between Donald Trump and a human being is purely coincidental.

I bet Wil Wheaton College would cover birth control. Is there any way to put him in charge of this?

Sure, let me get this high-pressure hose.

I pay money in to a pool that gets disbursed, it’s called taxes. Money that is used to start unjust wars, which is against my religion. If I don’t pay my taxes, I don’t get to pay a fine, I go to prison. This guy is ridiculous and fails to realize or care that part of living in a society is putting money in to things…

I was born in 89 and, once a month during the 90s, my mom left me in the toy section of a department store for 30 minutes while she went to pay her credit card some 70 feet away. I imagine she should be rotting in jail.

This! When I lived in central Pennsylvania, I was desperate for Chili Cheese Fritos, which they didn’t sell there because the only allowed spices were ketchup and mustard. I called up the Frito-Lay distributor and he not only brought in a case of them for me, he GAVE them to me because it was Christmas time! Call your…