Thanks for pointing that out, and I’m glad for the workers. However, Disney has neatly shifted that blessing from their own, obscenely full coffers to my pocket. Bit not pleased about that.

Just when we were all lucky that he was staying silent while we’re all locked down... Now we’re in for it

I saved a 3-year-old from drowning at the Jersey shore last year.

Your story has made me cry happy tears. Thank you for the story, thank you for helping your mom leave him, and thank you for the scholarships you fund. I think this is one of the best things I’ve ever read on Jez.

Every time one of these articles come I say the same thing: individual Catholic dioceses, found guilty of negligence that facilitated abuse, declared bankruptcy rather than coughing up money for abuse victims so they could have silly things like therapy. The drastic decision to declare bankruptcy isn’t made in a…

The reason to alter our patterns of behavior is to slow the spread of the disease so health care systems can catch up; thereby helping to protect people who are more vulnerable than yourself.

I’m so sorry that you’re going through this. Please consider that any trip you make to the hospital could be handled with precautions. Call his oncology care team and please alert them, they should be able to help with transport or have you go in for imaging at a time when there are very few patients. My own husband…

I’m pretty sure the fact that she’s a woman has everything to do with why she’s not in the lead right now. The only thing U.S. voters hate more than women is smart women.

I love Lizzy Warrren. She is smart, thoughtful, and passionate. The only reason she is not running away with this thing is that we —as a country— fucking suck at doing the right thing.

It’s unfortunate, but you’re right. I have two teenagers and although it doesn’t happen that much, I will, every so often, overhear one of their friends say it, or see it on a friend’s social media. When I was in elementary and middle school (late 70's and 80's) we would say it, and to us, it only meant uncool. I had…

I was gonna say...I’m a PA and do runs a lot during the day and Staples is one of the few reliable places to find a public restroom.

The complete lack... no, the willing abnegation... of agency in some of these is astounding. “God decides this stuff...” so you shouldn’t bother doing anything. The Bible says so, so everything will be fine. The man in charge says everything is ok, so why bother thinking otherwise?

Yeah. I have. What's your point?

Sorry but...

I agree that things need to change. I think the point is, instead of bitching about how bad things are, stop complaining and do something. When we couldn't find jobs, we made them. We didn't complain, give up, or cry, we sold shit out of our garages until we had full blown businesses and hired our friends etc. …

Precisely. Where do people get off saying they should have their student loans "forgiven". What you are saying with that is that you should have a free education and be free of the responsibility for the decisions you made.

…and we all paid our fucking student loan bills, quietly without bitching (too much) about it.

Boomers caused both bubbles. They are the ones controlling the money supply and the interest rates and they are the ones that decided that investments should be made into various industries. And they are the ones that will soon retire and have the power to suck this country dry.

The soldiers who went to war in the Middle East from 1992-2008 absolutely were Gen Xers. Only in the last two years or so have any Millennials been old enough. (Going with the 1990+ birth range; definitions vary, but that's the one I've always used.)

And GenX said the same about the generation before them, and those before them. Seriously. We're ALL at fault here. Nobody is innocent.