I wouldn’t call it an undesirable place, but we have a lot of retired liberal Californians where I live.

Common Core is really messing up our children’s math skills.

Well, yeah, if you do it the old way, but it comes out to 198 electors if you do it the new common core way.

*whispers* (America is a republic that has never since its founding adhered to the principle of one person one vote. People didn’t even get to vote on Senators until the 17th Amendment in 1913.)

A significant portion of the population where I live is comprised of retired Californians. They’re effing up the housing market here for working families.

Your math is a little off.

Does that mean he used to play for the Pelicans or Zombie Hornets?

That’s discrimination against like 80% of the electorate.

Nice tie. Oklahoma has a pretty solid track record of electing the fringe of the fringe religious nuts as state representatives. Especially in backwoods areas like the one he represents. These are the type of folks who have had multiple divorces but oppose same sex marriage because of the ‘sanctity of marriage’ or…

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the “don’t wear anything that identifies you as American” thing, and it runs pretty counter to all the experiences I’ve had. Generally try to avoid talking politics and religion, but most people I’ve met were accepting, friendly, and curious about the States. It seems like…

Can confirm. Met some really cool and interesting people in bars in Europe and Japan. A little alcohol can help with the language barrier as well. Lowered inhibitions mean you’re less likely to worry about proper pronunciation and sentence structure. From my experience, people seem to appreciate it if you make an…

Where I grew up, there were a lot of farms with guinea fowl. Most people kept them because 1) they keep the bug/pest population down and 2) they make a hell of a racket when anyone approaches the farm. Rarely did anyone eat them, and you’d get funny looks if you asked about it. Granted, I grew up in a part of the US…

Maybe it’s a lazy way of looking at it, but I don’t mind paying in a little extra and waiting on a refund. I know I won’t have to pay anything on tax day, it’s not enough that it’s going to make or break my budget, and in reality it’s not enough to really make investing worthwhile. In college I normally used the…

Bonuses and tax refunds go directly into the travel fund.

So, that prosperity gospel stuff really does work?

There are passages in the old testament that say it’s a sin for a man to lie with a man. There are also passages that say tattoos are a sin, pork and shellfish are forbidden, polygamy is a-ok, etc. Here’s a fun one from the old testament: if a man’s brother dies before having children, it’s the man’s duty to…

ha, stain...

Not sure how accurate this map is. I’ve bought booze in several of those red counties.

Don’t: Run a Marathon

Judging from the picture at the top, I think this was meant for women. Also, women probably shouldn’t do this either.