That’s true, but the only other options I see are to take about a dime per book from a service that will buy the collection in whole, or to throw the lot in the trash.

Let us assume that Couple A invest a total of $70,000 in their daughter’s 529, but they do it at the rate of $14,000 a year for the first five years of her life. Couple B decides to superfund and puts in the whole $70,000 in the beginning.

And don’t fall into the trap of convincing yourself that collections will make money in the future.

I think you nailed it better than any commenter I’ve come across yet. Given that it’s a part of real life, I see no reason why it shouldn’t be part of fiction - generally speaking. The problem is as you described - most of the time, it’s just done wrong. It’s almost always lazy storytelling, a shortcut to motivate a…

I don’t own a corkscrew because I’m waiting for someone to come out with one that connects to wi-fi so I can open bottles of wine from anywhere I happen to be.

We have for over 200 years and it’s not going to change now.

But there is once you start engaging in simple counterfactuals, such as, what if the roles were reversed?

538 people conspiring together to decide the president is about as un-democratic an electoral process as one could imagine

If you’ve got good knife skills you’ll definitely use it less, but it still comes in really handy in certain situations. There’s an Asian cucumber dish I make for family events that everyone requests I bring. Basically this, but not exactly. For my needs, it requires julienning five English cucumbers. Now, I can do…

True, but I still haven’t forgiven him for trying to poison the Albanian Ambassador when he was running that French restaurant a few years ago. He set U.S.-Albanian relations back decades!

Agreed on all counts. Although I have a story about jalapeños that basically makes them a non-starter for me. But more power to ya.

I have to be honest, I saw an image going around on Facebook last week about “Scottish Twitter” and one of the users said, in response to a drive-through worker asking if they wanted a drink holder for their eight drinks, “no, i’m an octopus, ye fuckin’ reprobate” - or something akin to that. But the “fuckin’…

So I’m guessing he’s not the kind of guy who would approve of topping a burger with a doughnut, or boneless buffalo wings, or macaroni & cheese. All of which I’ve seen, none of which I’ve tried, because I’m not a fuckin’ reprobate.

And that’s why anyone who says that Stein ruined the election are wrong.

I’m strongly liberal, proudly and happily voted for Hillary, and I can’t stand Jill Stein personally (mainly because she’s a doctor who is willing to sow seeds of doubt about vaccines), but I applaud her efforts here.

How did she ever think she’d be President?

Holy shit, I absolutely want to run a D&D campaign with a cleric who worships the god of nuts and racism now.

This. Changes. Everything.

Whats-his-name on RedZone basically kept apologizing for showing that game. Kept saying things like, “well, you know we [have to] show you everything from around the NFL...”

As a grammar nazi, you’re a member of the alt-write.