My old bartender buddy Bret, rest his soul, had a tip on tipping - always leave at least a buck. The bartender gets you a glass of water, a buck. A cup of coffee, a buck. A Coke, $1. One dollar isn’t going to change anyone’s life, but it says, “Hey fellow human doing a job, I see you and acknowledge your labor to…

Imagine if a single released by 13-year old John Lennon’s mum had been released...

When they chickened out with the real ending to Toy Story 3.

I’m old enough to remember when you could only play Super Mario Bros. on NES... or a Play Choice 10, and even if there was a third party game with the same title on multiple systems, the actual game was totally different (Shadowrun, Star Trek, etc). Those days sucked.

$5 says the car smelled of smoke when he rented it but because Hertz employees might actually inspect a vehicle being returned 50% of the time, it wasn’t recorded, so he got slapped with the fine.

I think the lesson here is that racism is SO pervasive, that even when people think they are well-intentioned and working against it, racism still presents itself because our entire society and every structure within it is racist.

No it’s not. Cast another actress who doesn’t look white. Wham. Done. You’re casting a role for a movie SPECIFICALLY about culture and ethnic heritage. If the role is for an Afro-Caribbean Latina, then cast someone of that heritage. You cannot tell me there isn’t someone in the industry who could play that part.

Why have trucks gotten so tall?

I don’t know about Ohio, but back home in Arkansas you were required to pay property tax on cars, and the county assigned an assessed value for it. Presumably that’s how Ohio would do it. Had zero to do with the condition or miles - they just had a single value assigned for the year, make, and model, and that’s what…

The entire “bootstraps” public policy thing is couched in the knowledge that people who realize they have no upward mobility and are stuck in their collective miserable existence will always elect people who promise to ensure someone else is more miserable.

My daughter got giardia from a public splash pad when she was 2. She had diarrhea for almost 2 weeks, which got so bad I had to just leave her in the tub and spray her down. That shit aint funny.

I’d been ordering Wendy’s #6 combo - spicy chicken sandwich - for at many, many years. That was just one of my two go-to fast food meals, the other being a quarter pounder with cheese combo from McDOnald’s.

The pragmatist in me says get hired at schools closer to where you live. Many public schools are experiencing terrible attrition rates as teachers retire but not being replaced, so they are desperate for people with experience. Just saying...

Read the recent From a Certain Point of View short story anthologies. They go there. Heck, Battlefront 2 went there.

This car would sell for $8,500 on BaT, easy. GTV6s are going for $15k+, with “projects” selling for what well-sorted cars were listed at about 5 years ago. Thanks Jeremy Clarkson, or maybe rust.

Is there any franchise more beloved that has a worse good:bad ratio than Indy? First film, easily among the top 20 movies ever made. Second film, mostly a pointless exercise in trying to gross out slasher-film obsessed 80s audiences. Third film, soft and doughy but generally fine, and truly excellent at certain points…

I play NMS to relax and destress. Wander, look at cool shit, attack a freighter, dig, explore, shoot bad aliens, go to bed.

“Still slow,” says the warrior with the ‘95 Civic EX automatic.

I wonder how many celebrities or even just notable people were involved in debutante ball or some other “traditional” southern tradition with racist underpinnings? Hell, until the early 90s our high school homecomings were usually Gone with the Wind-themed, with football players in blackface serving as slaves to…

Ghini in Albanian is mischief, so lamb or mischief if you’re into bilingual code switching.