According to the NYU website, it's tuition plus room and board, health insurance, textbooks, etc. It's still ridiculous, but it's not just tuition.

The conservative Republican* candidate for mayor in my city is pulling something similar. When asked if he'd back a human rights ordinance protecting LGBT residents, his answer was along the lines of "we don't need one because our residents are good people". I mean, on one hand, it's progress that they can't run on a…

For example, they said this a lot about Oz The Great and Powerful: Why does L. Frank Baum never go into detail about the origins of the Wizard of Oz in his books?

It's nice to have them nearby - I live about 15 minutes out. I also love beach weather - even the sunny rain (but not the grey, nasty rain). One day, when I don't have to work a full-time and a part-time job to pay my bills, I'll join some community groups and expand my social network, because I know there are people…

Oh, god, the desegregation argument. I have heard that one SO MANY TIMES.

Oh, man. Nothing like living in Jax to make me miss Atlanta, culture-wise. To be fair, I know plenty of liberal/moderate people down here, there's just mostly in my cohort (or younger).

This is a little difficult to do in my corner of the South. Every older woman I know just wants me to know that "when I grow up" (I'm 35), I'll be conservative and understand how Black people and "the gays" and "the godless" are ruining our country, and how it's a shame that I have to work instead of being a…

I have a domestic cat that's as big as a mid-size bobcat. He's a sweetheart, but a pain in the ass to wrangle for vet visits and the like. There are a few vet techs that won't hold him during check-ups, even though he's never been aggressive - he's just huge. He's incredibly strong, and can break the skin without…

The women anchors I work with wear knee-high boots, because they can clip their IFB packs and mic packs on them. Considering they do very few full-body shots, it's incredibly convenient. So, even if all the reporters at the station aren't anchors, there's a precedent for the style.

First, I wonder how the look will change now that Kim Manners has passed. Regardless of plot, I liked watching the episodes he directed (same on Supernatural - his episodes were some of the most visually appealing, in my opinion). HOWEVER. The X-Files has been practically dead* to me since they killed Krycek. And then…

At my former job, for a small engineering company, our new IT guy was tasked with the job of inventorying the old machines - seeing what worked, what could be salvaged, etc. In at least two of the old towers, he found big, ol' Florida spiders, alive and well. He was wary of all our computers for a few days after that.

Didn't Subway just get taken to court because their "footlong" subs weren't actually 12 inches long? And their argument was something along the lines of, "Well, Footlong is just a name, really". You can blame places like that for people asking how long "Footlong" food items are, I think.

I have a cat that will spin a TP roll for endless fun (or, at least until the end of the roll). Putting the roll on the "wrong" way keeps me from wasting TP as a cat toy (and from having to spend more money on toilet paper than necessary).

They should just keep them in tiny cells with no discernable way of using the restroom, like The Flash.

It was the 60s. I blame drugs.

It's appropriate, though, since they were each other's competition in the 1960s.

And giving Jenny McCarthy a national platform for her anti-vax crap.

Just wait. This poll went up less than an hour ago; if the SPN fandom finds out, it will vote in droves.

I knew a lot of nerdy kids in school (including my sister) who might've legitimately misunderstood the question, because their brains worked differently. Even in the South, where people also love meat.

I took ballet for years, including pointe, and was pretty decent. Not "go to NYC and be a pro" good, but "win a few national competition trophies" good. I was much better at (and much preferred) tap. Still, thanks to ballet/pointe, I can laugh in the face of every rolling partner who tries to ankle lock me in…