Shows what you know.

Shows what you know.

Well I'm American, and here in the Greatest Country On Earth, we may not have cheap university educations and we may not have the kind of upward mobility that canada and europe have and we may go bankrupt if we ever get a serious illness, but by-damned what we do have is

Well I'm American, and here in the Greatest Country On Earth, we may not have cheap university educations and we may not have the kind of upward mobility that canada and europe have and we may go bankrupt if we ever get a serious illness, but by-damned what we do have is

Not to be that guy, but you are definitely lucky on that score. Not that it makes it any easier to deal with the situation.

Not to be that guy, but you are definitely lucky on that score. Not that it makes it any easier to deal with the situation.

My wife owes ~ 120k for a master's in grief counseling. You know how they say the state of mental health treatment is bad in this country? Grief counseling programs are even worse. Its the first item in any state budget that gets cut.

My wife owes ~ 120k for a master's in grief counseling. You know how they say the state of mental health treatment is bad in this country? Grief counseling programs are even worse. Its the first item in any state budget that gets cut.

That's one of the extended repayment plans you can sign up for on DOE loans now:

That's one of the extended repayment plans you can sign up for on DOE loans now:

It made House Party 2 look like House Party 1.

It made House Party 2 look like House Party 1.

Might as well go with Jeremy Renner, they're putting him in everything these days.

Might as well go with Jeremy Renner, they're putting him in everything these days.

I spent most of the running time of Bicycle Thieves wondering why it was such a revered movie, until the last 10 minutes turned me into a blubbering mess. The son witnessing the father's humiliation is one of those things that just hits you harder than you can consciously understand.

I spent most of the running time of Bicycle Thieves wondering why it was such a revered movie, until the last 10 minutes turned me into a blubbering mess. The son witnessing the father's humiliation is one of those things that just hits you harder than you can consciously understand.

I watched the spanish-language version of the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie on telemundo the other day, and given that my spanish skills are at the "just barely gets the gist of it" level, it was really entertaining.

I watched the spanish-language version of the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie on telemundo the other day, and given that my spanish skills are at the "just barely gets the gist of it" level, it was really entertaining.

There was a nurse from some european country, (maybe the netherlands? I can't remember), who was convicted of being a serial killer in a huge public trial because 7 or 8 people had died on her floor in a year and a half, and at the previous hospital she worked a similar number had died. The entire case rested on one…

I was going to say the same thing about confirmation bias. The number of studies I've read about that show how totally normal people will say they saw something they didn't see, either for attention or just because the question posed to them was worded in a slightly leading direction, or the sheer unreliability of…