Firearms are by no means an unimportant issue, but I wish we would talk just a little bit more about why we all seem to want to kill each other so much.

I saw a pretty lame comment by Sweets on another thread and almost told him he’d jumped the trolling shark, but it was so lame it didn’t even merit that.

Great for travelling in cooler climates. Hot ones, not so much.

I feel no need nor desire to do it, but reserve the right to change my mind in the future. Were I to try a new activity tomorrow, it would be something that looks fun to me (e.g., luging) or something that I believe would be useful to me (e.g., sewing.)

Quote from classmate in law school: “What the hell am I supposed to call a fireman? A fireperson?”

I need symmetry in my home decor and I figure it’s because I’m so asymmetrical.

I think Saving Private Ryan is really overrated and the people who try to convince me otherwise always say that it’s important because it depicts how brutal war really is. And I have to say “I have an imagination - I don’t need to SEE someone getting his head blown off on a beach to realize it would suck!” After the…

I messaged a friend who still lives in the area and asked if she remembered this girl. She did, so I asked “Do you know if she’s still an asshole?” Apparently Christina thinks her poop smells like cotton candy.

Gil Grisson said at least twice on CSI that symmetry is the heart of physical beauty (or something like that). And I’ve never since shaken the suspicion that the entire left side of my face and body being bigger than the right is the cause of the apparent fugly that I don’t see when I look in the mirror. I’m not…

My introduction to “some people are just fucking assholes.”

Sweet’s comment is either extra premium, A+ trolling given the topic at hand, or Sweet belongs in the special ed version of empathy class.

They didn’t call it the Golden Rule, but they really taught it to us in my elementary school and I really took it to heart. It was an emotional slap in the face the day in second grade when Christina Some Greek Last Name mocked me for something and when I said “Think about how it would feel if it were you,” she…

I know everyone thinks they’re special, but I am in many ways a statistical outlier. Not so much special as fucking weird. And I think deeply desiring that other people be more empathetic towards me has made me quite empathetic towards others. Also, being such a freak of nature I kind of have to be empathetic just to…

My father made me learn to drive on a stick. It was kind of like being expected to read Wuthering Heights before learning your ABCs.

I loved to ice skate when I was young. Didn’t do it for a long time, then moved to the upper Midwest where cold weather sports are huge. Said “oh boy, I’m gonna go ice skating again! It’s gonna be awesome!” But it turns out that the prospect of falling on the ice is far more frightening when you’re 40 than when you’re…

My mother told me I couldn’t have a bike because my father said it was too dangerous where we lived (on a dirt road in the boonies, which my older self realizes would actually have been a really good place to learn.) When it came up in my teens, my father insisted he never said any such thing.

I love their jackets and tanks. I won’t even lie. They look awesome on me and are good quality. I know the company sucks, but it’s so rare to find clothing (almost) worth the price.

I worked retail in college and there were certain transactions/requests I came to dread because things always went south. Two decades later, if I need to return something and am in a jaunty mood, I’ll sashay up to the counter and say “I need to return this. I lost the receipt and I want the refund in cash. Ha, just…

I was just recommending Athleta to a friend. I’ve really liked most everything I’ve bought from them.

Another translation of brahmachyara is non-excess and in western yoga it’s often defined as an emphasis on simple living and restraint from self-indulgence. So when I bought a $130 track jacket, I just about pissed my pants laughing when they handed it to me in that brahmachyara bag.