My mother has decided to retire on her SS income of about $1000 a month. She’s in her late sixties but is healthy and has full mobility. What she doesn’t have is a single dime of savings. I’m mid-career and am just starting to get my feet under me financially. I have a child and a ton of student loan debt. I’m afraid…

I did something similar (organizationally) to the sink under our master bathroom. I even threw unnecessary items away! I love throwing stuff away.

Hard to enjoy those assets when they’ve been frozen by a federal prosecutor.

PEPFAR isn’t just an African program. It’s also doing amazing work in the Caribbean. I met with USAID officials in Jamaica last week and they are terrified by the impending budget cuts. It’s especially alarming giving the rising sex-tourism industry. HIV/AIDS doesn’t give two shits about political borders. The…

Not to mention that just because you have a licence to carry doesn’t mean you are actually a responsible gun owner. Two years ago a teacher in a Philly school left her weapon in the bathroom. Two children found and returned it to the office for her. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-teacher-left-gun-in-bathroom-element…

Absolutely. It just takes a little bit more planning.

If you don’t have kids, leave now. It’s only going to get worse.

Cities themselves are never great. You have to find the right neighborhood in the city. Nobody lives in a “city”. They live in the few blocks surrounding where they live and work.

Yes, that’s what they can do though. They don’t want the government to work so obstructing is a legitimate tactic. If, on the other hand, you want government to work for the people obstruction isn’t a winning tactic.

The lesson I learned from that whole mess is that ASP desperately needs the heavy hand of a conventional network to reign in her kookiness. I loved GG and Bunheads but I can bring myself to watch MMM because of how terrible the GG reboot was.

It’s because every restaurant marginally better than Applebee’s is in such high demand on Valentine’s Day that they all are doing three full services with regular staffing. It’s one thing for department stores to hire additional staff for the Christmas season but quite another to hire additional servers and kitchen…

We’re hysterical because we cry, they’re logical because they solve emotional problems with violence...

Books have become a ridiculous expense for us, too. We’re trying bi weekly trips to the library now.

Not to mention Uncle Joe has videos of him giving crazy unwanted sexual attention to women. He is not the man for the job...actually, at this point, I don’t think there is a man for this job.

Beautiful...

It’s not optimism. I’m just not going to mourn the passing of Toys R Us. I’m waiting for the day that Amazon and Alibaba are the only two games in town and start raising prices and the people revolt and burn the whole thing down.

I think you can acknowledge that you liked these things as a kid while also realizing that kids don’t have the best sense of what’s right or good.

Yeah, it’s a real bummer that a whole generation won’t experience the magical feeling of purchasing garbage consumer goods made by children a world away in poverty conditions. It’s really sad that they won’t scream and cry until their parents spend their hard earned wages on a piece of plastic that they won’t care…

While as a child I loved going to toy stores, as a parent I can’t fathom how they existed as long as they did. Literally nothing short of a gun to my head would compel me to bring my child into a toy store.

The red onion is traditional but the chop on those onions in the picture is terrible.