LOL. I’m with you. Step one for dealing with debilitating long-term illness and decline: Suck-start shotgun.

Yep. Unless my parents die suddenly - and together - I fully expect their Bay Area house, bought in 1976 for +/- $50,000 and now worth well over a million, to evaporate into an assisted living facility or daily care at some point in the next decade. That sucks, but on the plus side, hopefully that means I won’t have…

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Ha!

I do a budget every month of bills (mandatory and optional, like the gym) and that’s the money that’s in the checking account. I over-budget for some things (e.g., $300 every month for the vet, even though most months I don’t go to the vet, $200 for doctor copays and prescriptions, even though we don’t spend nearly…

For the jerks in your life: http://www.kyforky.com/send-jerk-lump-kentucky-coal-2/

I receive health insurance through my employer (a university) so I haven’t had much call to look into the ACA. But recently my spouse and I went online to check out health coverage for her as an alternative to her PPO (it’s a long story, there was some accounting chicanery going on, we thought she was going to get…

I didn’t read the article because I don’t care about fancy diets, but what the fuck is that gorgeous chunk of wonder meat in the picture? I wanna eat it and marry the leftovers.

A party at work? Yes.

In Tennessee that’s probably grounds for immediate dismissal.

Personally I’ve found that it’s really helped my lower back. I used to have nagging muscle pain from old sprains and sports injuries, and it’s basically gone. Like other people have said, use perfect form and start slow. Hell, stay slow. Nothing says you need to go nuts.  

I’ve been doing deadlifts with a personal trainer for about a year now. PT started out as shoulder rehab, but it’s become about all around fitness. I really like doing them. Hoping to hit 1 rep pr of 315 by January, which was my goal when starting out. I don’t really have any ambition for it beyond that. Side note:…

My President let me down when he appointed Rahm to be White House chief of staff...

Yeah, but you aren’t agreeing with Trump, who wants more bombs even if our allies are footing more of the bill for their own defense.

White women always vote Republican. All this election showed was that having a woman on the ballot isn’t going to change that.

For real. It only hits 10,000 men a year, a tiny fraction of the population. Why is it my wife’s problem when someone’s balls decide to kill them?

This is a great list! Because I’ll be in Boston until Wednesday night, I need to do something different from my usual Peking duck, which takes a few days. I’m trying to think of what I can buy the night before at Kroger and then do on the grill.

It’s no mystery. It’s Kentucky. Neighbors regularly fuck each other up over trivial shit. It’s on the local news all the time.

Senility is a bitch.

If you really need to take a huge shit, but don’t need to take it for at least 24-36 hours, then eat Papa J’s.