A lot of places do, especially places popular with foreigners who can feign ignorance of the American tipping culture. I was at a crowded hotel bar a few weeks ago, standing room only, I got our drinks at the bar, kept leaving money for the bartender, got the bill (we ran a tab) and added 20% but they had already…

You always have the best jpegs and gifs. You don’t work in library science or data management or something like that, do you?

All the photos really are perfect. Maybe Carson’s next book could be a coffee table collection called Awkward Carson Book Signing Photos. How America continues to be the most powerful nation on earth baffles me, and I’m a 12th-generation American.

The dome head is in, take it from this guy who took the plunge years ago. If you have gray hair, like my husband and I do, you look a lot younger if your head is nicely shaped and you get rid of the hair. In my building half the men have shaved heads. And think of all the money we’re saving on barber bills!

I’m a pretty faithful reader of I Thee Dread but somehow I missed your mother’s invaluable contribution to the comments section. She sounds wonderful. I’d love to meet her if she ever comes to New York to visit you!

Clinic escort. You’re a braver person than I. I used to walk by a clinic every so often, just me, a guy, alone, and I used to get harassed. I used to yell back at them, “I’m not here to get an abortion, you morons. I’m just trying to get to the subway.”

It’s a holiday in Cambodia.

We sold my parents’ place, a small ranch on a lot of property, as-is, when my father died. We didn’t get much money for it but the people who we eventually sold it to were from the area and were priced out otherwise so why not, pay it forward.

I read somewhere that if you watch HH or HHI and place bets (which one will they choose?!?!?) always go for the one that’s furnished. Why? Because they’re already living there, and that’s their crap, staged of course. “I don’t like the color of the bathroom…” Of course you don’t, but with the money you got from…

Oh, it’s pretty bad, but if you already live here and you read between the lines you realize it’s a very tiny subset of the 8.2 million of us. Not to mention that there’s another 8 or 9 million more in the commutable metro area. Not all of us can be digitable media influencers with a boy/girlfriend with a quirky…

Don’t read The Hunt. It’s been a parody of itself and its readers since the column started.

For what job would the application ask about interacting positively with members of minority groups? And do they give the same application to actual members of minority groups? Because I don’t think it’s wise to have different applications for different groups of applicants…

But luckily everything traditionally served at Thanksgiving is almost better as leftovers!

Logan’s Run, possibly the most 70s movie of the entire decade.

That building must have really interesting interior spaces. And you don’t know what that added structure on the top is planned to be? Might it be public or somewhat public space of some kind, like the tenants could hold fundraisers or something? I suppose the one-story structure would be office space, but that homage…

Au contraire. There is no one so eccentric as the elderly Manhattan lifers clinging to rent-controlled apartments, often with some kind of city government pension that they’ve been collecting for decades, who do a lot of “independent research” at their local library branches. I can introduce you to a few. They’re…

So the building was a pleasant, handsome tan and green and is (speaking of) going to be chocolate/poo brown? Don’t you prefer the tan and green?

Well into the 1980s traditional mens’ suits used to be a jacket and two pairs of pants, because you’d wear that same suit a lot and the pants would get more wear and tear.

It’s the present progressive tense that really gives it away that you’re dealing with a person who does not have English as a first language. It must be drilled into foreign learners who don’t realize how rarely it is used in conversational English. “I am going to work five days per week.” (“I work five days a week.”)…

Believe me, no one hates it more than responsible dog owners. This practice gives us a bad rap AND most dogs are obsessed with other dogs’ excrement so walking through a poo minefield with your dog is like playing the worst videogame ever.