I believe I know what happened to handled cookie cutters of yore: people like me. I have only ever been vaguely on board with the whole cookie-making thing. I want cookie-eating! As it happens, if you use the handle without also pressing down around the non-handle parts, your cookie-cutting is haphazard and the person…

Not even in the case of helping endangered species bring their numbers back up?

My mother — god bless her — bought an absolutely stunningly beautiful set of metal dishware when I was a kid. The bowls and coffee mugs are still in mint condition 15 years later because it only took one dinner for us to burn the shit out of our hands.

maybe they didn’t believe in birth control? who knows. you’re looking for logic where you will find none.

Also, if it is “their” “Peppermint Bark,” how can there be a “sugg.” of $14.00 but ooooooh “our price” is $12.59! Fred in accounting is like “we need to charge $14 for these 4.8 oz of generic chocolate we haphazardly sprinkled with candy cane rejects,” but Sherry in merchandising is like “FUCK THAT, FRED! GIVE THE…

That’s the thing. A lot of people genuinely don’t know that this is a terrible idea. My parents were very good with money (not rich at all, just knew how to live within their means) and taught me how to be responsible with it. When I would hear about something like a Title Loan and ask why we didn’t do that, my Dad…

Well, yes, but there are neighborhoods that don’t have banks or supermarkets, or people that live from paycheck to paycheck (down to the penny) and there are not good alternatives. There was a time in my life when I made so little money that I could not make the limit for a minimum deposit at a savings and loan, and I…

It’s how people must have felt in Germany following WWII. I see no difference between Hitler and Trump at all. I just hope and pray that the US electorate is savvy enough to draw the same conclusions. I’m scared they are not. So many people have told me that they like him because “he speaks his mind.”

There was a very recent This American Life that talked about wage garnishment (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…). The line that stuck out the most:

The idea of President Trump interacting with other world leaders is nauseating. What’s so weird is that he literally has no platform. He has absolutely nothing except overblown, ridiculously bigoted statements. What the fuck would he even DO in office? Why are people so infatuated with someone whose policy ideas are…

They’ve been in power for centuries. And they rage against challenges to their power. I don’t know. Maybe when they are finally no longer in control, and finally a minority, they, or at least their children, will chill the fuck out and just work with everyone else?

Agreed, but they’re proud of who they are! They don’t care if we think they’re awful. They think they’re right.

Scapegoats are popular in times of economic turmoil. When the populace sees no hope with the current system it is easy for a demoagogue like Trump to come in and play to people’s base instincts and fear. People are disenfranchised from the political establishment because of their corruption and graft and therefore we…

Fear mongering is super effective and super dangerous.

Addiction is a terrible, horrible thing no one should be idolizing. Seeing someone you love waste away and give up on everything is devastating. Anyone glamorizing additction as anything but tragic needs a reality check.

Were you scared? And excited? But also scared?

When I was applying for college in the 90s, I was under a lot of pressure. My parents expected me to go to a top school like Stanford - all kinds of straight A students got rejected from Stanford, so I was really pushing myself. I had all kinds of extra-curricular activities in addition to a demanding course load.…

Well, this one time in the ‘90s, my family went on vacation. We have a big family, and a winter storm knocked our power out, and somehow the person in charge of making sure we were all in the airport shuttle miscounted. So I got left home alone for a couple days. No biggie, I found some cash for snacks and pizza, but…

Foodie turf wars are hilarious. Definitely get the quinoa.

Amaranth is fucking gross. I was in the bulk aisle of WF getting some goddamn split peas for the soup I make, and there was some dude there with his girlfriend.