Cream, some peppermint extract, and a bit of cocoa. I know. Work. Your liver will love the absence of all the hydrogenated oils and processed sugars though. You're welcome AKP's liver!

"and no one took it seriously" or at least you hope.

Although they may be scarce or don't exist in your particular area, if the local school has a foundation or scholarship program would be a worthwhile cause to help student from the community. Also, many local school groups (FFA, FCCLA, etc) hold fundraisers and charity drives this time of year.

I always think it's best to give to charities that you have a personal connection with. Not just a cause you believe in but an organization where you have volunteered or know someone who works there or has benefited from that charity's work. None of the charities I give to will be any that someone here has heard of…

Well, he IS a colossal dick

And he can't later say he meant "with a noose because of his approval rating" because that would mean he doesn't know that would be "hanged" and it's own huge PR disaster (but probably only on NPR)

Yeah. I think he's for real and he's posting variations to see what works.

A degree isn't just a piece of paper. If nothing else, it says that you can learn and that you can commit. A degree rounds out your education. Sure you can be self taught (I was an expert level developer before going to college), but college taught me things I was not spending the time to learn by self educating…

" I'm saying creativity flourishes best when unimpeded by fear."

I've lost track of how many stories I've heard where the writers' room is basically being used as a boys' club where women are expected to shut up and put up with a never-ending flow of chauvinism, particularly in comedy, but yeah, I guess the real problem is that women don't see just how hi-fucking-larious their male…

I can't really speculate but based on what she said about wanting to discuss the NSA, my guess is she has intellectual interests other than feminism that drive her choices and she decided to deal with working for a guy who was kind of a dick in order to do work she found interesting. Just because he's an asshole…

This from a man who posted on televisionwithoutpity.com that Rick Cleveland didn't deserve his Emmy because he (Sorkin) did most of the writing for the episode. And went on to post in great detail the breakdown of writing duties on The West Wing and how he did most of the work but union rules force him to give others…

Generally that's true, but when it's a case of sexism in the workplace (or racism, homophobia etc.) it's different. When a female writer is punished for expressing opposition to a sexist storyline, it needs to be said.

But nothing that she said would really be cause for anyone to "fear" anything. I mean it's not like Sorkin isn't standing behind what he wrote. It's not like she snitched on who came up with the idea or anything. Unless you're reading something drastically different than I am the things to take away from her tweets…

As usual, the problem is never the problem. The problem is TALKING about the problem.

Or we could just pay everyone a living wage. We could fucking do that, too.

Up until the early 1980's, corporations paid their employees a fair wage by maintaining a sane CEO to lowest paid employee ratio. When upper management started diverting money from their subordinates to themselves, the age of obscene over compensation began.

I currently manage a family-owned small business, my Aunt is the boss, and we try to pay our few employees a living wage. A large corporate store moved in a few blocks from us, and just before they opened the manager came down and told my Aunt that they were going to put us out of business. Here we are 6 years…

I've never experienced worse customer service than on United flights. A little ironic being snapped at by a scowl-faced flight attendant immediately after they wax lyrical at you about "flying the friendly skies" for 15 minutes.

Whoopi needs to become Guinan permanently.