I’m just going to say of course the osbournes would leave one of their own for dead for a dollar.

When our son was diagnosed with epilepsy, our neurologist was really adamant that we never, ever try to drive him ourselves if the rescue meds didn’t stop the seizure or if he was having trouble breathing. She said to call 911. It’s not overkill, it’s not dramatic. Call the ambulance. 

No staff? No assistants, or a housekeeper able to drive her given that it was an emergency?

And also, Public Service Announcement: if you think you’re having a heart attack or a serious asthma attack that might kill you, do not wake up your spouse and ask them to drive you to the hospital. CALL 911. The EMTs have the equipment to save your life if it comes to that, and your spouse does not, and especially…

Yeah, you can’t get upset with someone for not being able to drive when there was no notice it’d be necessary, but ffs just admit you can’t drive and hire someone or call 911 - don’t risk both your lives like that.  I’d seriously consider divorce if my spouse was that reckless with my safety.  

I know everyone loves him because of Princess Bride and Clueless, but Wallace Shawn has always seemed creepy to me. I believe Lauren Lane.

They’re also rich, so could easily rent a place for as long as is necessary even if they sold their one and only house. They aren’t quite like the last time I changed apartments and one lease ended on the 31st while the other didn’t start until the 5th and ended up crashing with some very kind but very unenthused…

another recent item in my brain, which is that one time Ellen drank three weed drinks and took two melatonin, and then had to drive her wife to the hospital for emergency appendix surgery

I thought Ellen and Portia famously had like a shit ton of property? I don’t understand why either would have to use Courtney Cox’s guest room.

I don’t know why people keep trying to make Musk out to be this evil antithesis to Gates. They’re really similar in that they both throw money around to “disrupt” industries and frequently just fuck things up before walking away with their fortunes intact (look into Gates’ push for charter schools and various other…

And many of them exert a tremendous amount of control even when they don't know what they're doing. Zuck made a huge donation to New Jersey public schools based on thinking he could unilaterally change teacher pay and unions. No one bothered to tell him that was in state law. His donation was ultimately a failure. 

LinkedIn is a cesspool of aspiring “Great Men.” 

The biggest joke. Part of their success and image relies on enough people believing they are both uniquely smart and uniquely good and that we should all aspire to be a 65 year old white male billionaire who is slightly more charitable than that other middle age white male billionaire or that other one. When…

Oh Gates made some decent products back when Microsoft was little more than a startup (they did compilers and such for some buisness computers). You start seeing M$ focusing more on crushing competition than innovating around the mid to late 80's.

I know, right? The hamster perspective on Board Meetings: “Too many people in hard shiny shoes. I need to find someone to carry me to these things before someone steps on me.”

I would totally read a book by a Great Hamster. 

Back in the late 1990s, books by “Great Men”, defined as people who headed companies that made a lot of money, and they were ALL men, were thick on the ground. Every company that did well had a man in charge who thought his company did well because HE was in charge, and so his words were all people needed to become…

Jane Addams did talk about how helping the poor gave purpose to her own life, but both her work and her writings show her dedication to helping others from a very young age, and her attitude toward the people she helped was incredibly different from the other people you mention in the article. Addams and her partner…

One casualty of my office-working days was a super snarky article from the Economist about the advice of “Great Men” like Cook, Gates, Jobs, Bezos, etc. I loved it so much that I laminated it and put it on my individual fridge in the hopes that my clueless agency head would read it and see himself. (He never did…

good luck getting a McFlurry all day, those ice cream machines are always offline