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I continue to be amazed and inspired by these kids.

I am completely baffled as to why Meghan Markle would want to marry into the royal family. It’s a total Little Mermaid situation. Meghan has to give up everything. She has to give up her career, she has to move to a completely different country, she has to change her citizenship, she has to change her religion, and

Weren’t some of his first words to Jenn “So, you’re a pastry chef?” Implying that, because she was a woman she would obviously not be a “real” chef.

Or, as my mom used to say “For every person willing to put out, there’s always someone willing to put in.”

Oh yeah. I was ready to bust down the door to the cockpit and yell at the pilot “Dude, land this fucking plane.” My pilot theorized that the pilot flying the plane had probably never served in the military because once you’ve landed a fighter jet on a ship that’s bobbing in the ocean, landing a regular plane in

I’m a horrible flyer and I was on one of these planes. The weather was so bad they were diverting everyone to another airport but our pilot insisted on trying to land. He’d go into land and abort because it was too dangerous. He did this six times. All the while it was like a giant had ahold of our plane and was

I don’t know about his restaurants but his screaming at chefs is definitely nongender specific. He screams at anyone who fucks up, male or female. In fact, if you fuck up, you kind of want him screaming at you because it means that he still has hope for you as a chef. If he just sighs or shrugs or walks away

Yep but the racists do like my grandfather did. Vote Democratic locally, vote Republican nationally. Voting Democratic locally is necessary if you want clean streets and lids on your garbage cans. You do not want to live in a district with a Republican alderman. Shit just won’t get done.

My grandmother used to waitress at a restaurant that Capone frequented. Apparently, he was a great tipper and much beloved in the neighborhood because he would pass out dollar coins to kids. Whenever there was some news report on Capone my grandmother would always cluck and make noises that he wasn’t that bad of a

An addition to the If You End Your Day Watching Sportscenter list: Anything by Mariana Zapata. They all feature elite athletes, sometimes it’s the man, sometimes it’s the woman. She also uses a variety of sports as background and does a good job of inserting sports knowledge that satisfies readers with no knowledge

I worked with a woman who claimed God spoke to her. She would pepper her conversations with the various tidbits that God had said to her. One time I did say to her “You realize that if you claimed your invisible friend Ted was speaking to you, you’d be on serious medication right now, don’t you? But because you say

lets make fun of people who don’t know arcane knowledge about a subject that, on the grand scheme of things doesn’t really matter.

It’s streaming on Netflix.

Supposedly, Trump has made people sign NDAs. This is not standard as shown by the books written after people leave the White House. Whether the NDAs That were signed are enforceable is something that will probably be worked out in court because there are laws about transparency in government and if someone files a

I don’t know. It’s not like Obama had that much political experience before he became President. He’d only been an elected official for ten years before becoming President and most of that was in the Illinois State Senate. He’d only been a senator for a year (his first national elective position) before deciding to

I used to work for an attorney who helped people buy super expensive things like art, jewelry, planes, etc. He was involved in the Elizabeth Taylor auction that was held after her death. Let me tell you something, Richard Burton knew how to buy gifts. He gifted her with some amazing pieces of jewelry and art (the

No, in this area copyrights and trademarks are the same. The United States is what is known as a “common law” country. Which means that the first person to use the intellectual property (IP) is the first person to own it. No papers need to be filed with the government whether it’s a copyright or a trademark. You

It’s in biochemistry. She’ll be fine.

I don’t really have a dog in this fight but you’re conflating trademark with copyright issues and there is a difference. Swift’s lawsuit is a copyright issue. Under copyright law, you cannot copyright phrases. They are not deemed unique enough to deserve protection. That is what Swift’s lawyers are arguing. It