I think being on the street is bad for your mental health even if you weren’t mentally ill to begin with. I am guessing that some of the people you help are just so consumed with their own situation that they didn’t notice you were a person.

Well, yeah, there was some pretty hardcore stuff in there. I was maybe a little older than you when I read it and as I remember there was forcible donkey sex. Not sure whether the woman forcibly seduced the donkey or vice-versa, but either way it sure did turn my little teenie head around.

Yes. All the way back to drunken rapist Rhett carrying Scarlett up the stairs (and of course many before that).

I have read a few different articles written by social-worker types who work in cities that got smart. They’ve proven that it’s cheaper to pay for people to be given housing and support services than to treat them in emergency rooms when they get sick and injured on the streets or put them in prison. Most will get…

I do too and I’m not sorry. I am always amazed when people sign their names to stuff like that, because even if you have no overt religion, isn’t there still something inside (even if it’s just basic human superstition) that says you’re just asking for it? Karma, the wrath of God, whatever. You’re just begging the…

I want to just relieve them of their privilege, homes, and bank accounts, drop them off in their own city without a dime to their names, and see how they do.

If those folks actually die on the sidewalk there, what happens? I assume it’s also illegal to die on the sidewalk in your neighboring city, but that’s a tougher ordinance to enforce.

I assume (and devoutly hope) that every city that passes such ordinances will someday be transferred brick by brick and asshole by asshole to the hottest spot in hell. But it’s always been confusing to me: in those places, is it legal to feed people who have homes? Can I set up a big grill in the park and pass out…

Wow. In high school I was considered weird because I was still a virgin at 17. And several of my friends got married the summer after graduation (then got divorced at 20 and married again at 22 or so). That may be a class thing; it was not a rich area and most people didn’t expect to go to college.

But they are not all going to do that and from your comment it seems you think they are? Some people do marry and never sleep with anyone else, whether that’s from being in monogamous love all their lives or exhaustion or despair.

I suggest you buy white carpet, furniture with white silk upholstery, and a coffee table with a sharp-cornered glass tabletop. Also get priceless breakable knick-knacks and store all of them at child height. Predict you will have a grandchild within a year.

Since we’re running out of letters anyway, they should probably be called Gen I.

18 and 18, not so very uncommon.

Are you a very young person? Because if you’ve been around people for many years, you’ll know that selfish is normal, for all of us, and it takes a lot of effort to be unselfish. Unselfish is better, but not really normal.

Liz Phair, Shitloads of Money?

In private or in front of the class in the candlelight?

And require their employees to follow it.

I’m sure the lions are willing to wait for a big tub of nachos instead (or some pumpkins). But when the lion’s paw goes around the guy’s neck, I can’t help thinking that if the claws were out they would probably sever his carotid artery.

Yeah, me too, I lost my heart after seeing the Christian the Lion video. The way Christian hugged his former owners...don’t know of any other animal that hugs.

That is one lion saying it to the other lion and the man is the snacks?