Yes, thank you. If you have only one thing to eat, a bowl could work ok. But if you have a piece of chicken, some broccoli and some rice, putting all that in a bowl together makes no sense. Putting it in three smaller bowls makes too many dishes to wash. Just get a dinner plate like a normal person.

My company does the same thing, and I always wonder if anyone whose lifestyle is not perfect tells the truth. Because if you admit you don’t eat any vegetables or never exercise or something, you can bet you are soon going to be getting some “help” via endless phone calls and email from the third-party group my…

Yep, and if a transman has a surgically-created penis—couldn’t he (theoretically) wave that around just as much as a transwoman who hadn’t had surgery? Let’s just keep anyone with a penis from using a public restroom, ever! THE PENISES, THEY FRIGHTEN US.

... or that all toddlers should be sent to Guantamo.

...and you have to hope they don’t have a gun tucked into the waistband of their pants, or in a pocket. People who like to own guns often like to carry guns.

Maybe put a little twist on it by telling them that not only do toddlers sometimes shoot themselves, but also family members, and you don’t want to see them killed by your two-year-old (once the kid is ambulatory and all).

You’re too kind. I want him in prison, with some very unpleasant but treatable disease... but, like many prisoners all over the country, he just doesn’t get his meds.

Our political leaders tend to be part of the global elite in terms of finances, and there is a strong philosophical/moral trend toward “if you are not rich, you deserve poverty, sickness and death because you COULD have been rich if you had worked and been smart. So screw the poors.” And yeah, it’s not even close to…

I am an old, and when I was a kid the “school nurse” was a full-time position. I don’t know if it was true at every single school across the country, but I think it was the norm. If you got sick during the day you were sent to the nurse’s office and she took your temperature or whatever and called your parents. My…

If you ever become poor, remember that Taco Bell is about the cheapest fast food around. And it might have a modicum of nutrition in it, at least in the chicken and refried beans. I mean, not enough to make you healthy but enough to keep you alive for an hour.

I just read the post about that Benghazi movie, and I couldn’t help but notice—Ben-gha-zi sounds almost exactly like Chi-pot-le. Which made me realize, isn’t it likely that Hillary is also responsible for the Chipotle disaster?

Maybe Whole Foods will move in with some of its special stores for poor people. You know, organic broccoli for $8 a pound instead of $10 a pound. It will help with the obesity problem also, because a family of four that has nothing but five pounds of broccoli to eat for a week slims down fast!

But it’s so much fun to imagine it to be real.

I was wondering about that. Like, in the history of sororities, has there never been a girl who has short hair or is fat? Is it just unlikely or is it UNTHINKABLE? I have never even known someone who was in one, so I have no idea.

Yeah, I don’t get the point of this at all. I don’t understand what sticking her own face where other people’s faces were is supposed to accomplish. Is it supposed to be a kind of “there but for the grace of God go I” moment? Because these tribes are “on the brink of extinction”? i would like it better if she put…

Yes but she doesn’t know about subject/verb agreement—that should have been “sign his or her name.” 20 points off.

I don’t see the connection. Fundamental attribution error seems to be making a mistake about what causes a person’s behavior, while I’m looking for the cognitive bias that makes it difficult for someone to acknowledge the contraditions in a person’s character one they’ve labeled that person as good or bad. The Halo…

Well, but I think that depends on how much they “need” you to be a certain thing to match their value system. If someone decides you’re bad because you’re a certain color or religion or whatever, that’s hard to sway because they’re very invested in maintaining their own worldview hierarchy of who’s good and who’s bad.…

Maybe it’s just the theory of cognitive dissonance. Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about people believing things that are contradicted by evidence.

I think there is a fancy name for this, but I can’t remember it. The theory has to do with labeling/categorizing and the human tendency to not allow for contradictions in people’s characters. If we believe someone is “a good person” (or whatever label we give that: an upstanding citizen, a loving father, whatever),…