If you read other recent posts on the subject, it’s not champagne and caviar for everyone spending a college tuition’s worth on preschool. In states where high costs are the norm, it’s more like being stuck renting and using old cars and going deeper in debt while praying for the day that your kid gets into public…

I’m not a celebrity but I went as grouchy curmudgeon who hates adults in costumes. It was the role I was born to play.

I LOVE THAT YOU REFERENCED THIS. Sir Terry knew what the fuck was up. I learned more about politics and economics (among other things) from Discworld than I did after four years in my fancy liberal arts university. The world is poorer without him.

Oddly enough I have heard of adding grape jelly as a secret ingredient to Italian tomato sauce to add a little sweetness to counter the acidity of the tomatoes, especially in combination with meatballs. I grew up in NY a few hours north of the city and have had more than a few occurrences of grape jelly in meatball…

Yes they do. They really, really do want that much caramel. I can barely look at caramel now, and I haven’t worked at a Starbucks since 2003.

Yeah, but a LOT of people think of Buddhism as an enlightened exception. This is a reminder that it really isn’t.

GESTAPO SOUP!

It’s very useful for traveling (which I do quite a lot of) but you have to learn how to read the reviews. Unless there are a lot of them (and I do look at the hidden ones), I don’t trust the gushing 5-stars. The 4-star reviews (or lack, thereof) usually tell the real story.

When my uncle wrecked the 16 year old truck my parents used to haul stuff like mulch or top soil, my mom decided she needed to replace it because she would need to haul things. So she replaced it with a new Tundra which was expensive and s gas guzzler (about 17 MPG). In the 5+ years she’s owned it, it was used one…

I have to agree, many moons ago I worked at McD’s, and yes while they will work every last penny of the minimum wage they pay you out of you (the motto is if you’re leaning you should be cleaning), that kind of bullshit would never ever happen in any store I worked in. Any time we felt a bit sick they would do their…

Or, depending on where this was, the girls were trafficked.

Don't give many craps about wine, but I actually love to smell the corks of tequila bottles, I'm the type who keeps empty bottles, and I'll just smell the cork for the hell of it sometimes.

He is dangerous. In one episode (the last one I watched) a young woman, high school maybe?... asked him how to handle a guy who would not stop calling her. His answer... “That’s a compliment! You should be flattered he keeps calling”... He is a dangerous man.

Yup, we’re definitely on the same page. Even with the discounted tuition—because it’s a standard benefit that is offered to university employees, so there’s no issues with inherent fairness.

My feeling about athletic scholarships as a whole is that they all need to go away. College is for getting an education, not playing a fucking game. You want to play games while going to school? Fine, but you don’t get financial benefits to attend school for playing said game. Only academic scholarships should be…

As many reservations as I have about unions, a large group of 18-22 year old kids with no world experience who are being used by an entertainment program to earn huge profits while providing paultry remitence to the talent in the form of scholarships and a few perks is the PERFECT example of a group that NEEDS the…

Yes indeedy!

Sort of. The Southern states (in particular Texas, which is large enough to be a market that textbook manufacturers can’t piss off too bad) have managed to vague up the causes of the war in the history textbooks until it’s a mush of “The Civil War had a variety of causes” BS that reads like a junior-high student who…

We had SO many customers get into a line with a lot of people, order a stupidly complicated drink, and then yell at us because THEY were late to yoga.