Someone, somewhere has to stand up.

We know that the Republicans plan on undoing every single law, executive order, and regulation of the Obama administration - and we know they have the votes and disrespect for tradition necessary to accomplish such a thing. It will be as though it never existed, from a domestic perspective. How can he be so passive,…

I really do think the tradition of outgoing presidents ensuring a peaceful, steady and stable transfer of power is vitally important

So, one time I got an email from a celebrity who turned out to be a huge dick. Got an email out of the blue one day from Absalom Kumalo, the Prince of Nigeria. Whoa, right?! Turns out, his father the King had just died that morning, and there was a massive coup happening there, and he needed my help getting his family…

I grew up in New England, learned to drive there (drove in plenty of snow), but moved to the south when I was a teenager. Fast forward a little more than 20 years, I’m on a road trip with my wife and infant daughter from New Mexico to Colorado. Figured, I’ve driven in snow before. I’m a New Englander. I grew up with…

That’s a fair point. I didn’t consider that.

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.