Oil & Gas jargon is also the worst because it’s all holdover words and job titles from like 100 years ago in Texas.

I quit asking, but not for the reasons in this article. I quit asking because I gave up trying to get more than single-syllable replies out of teenage boys.

After the 2008/09 financial crisis I was so pissed I quit my BoA and Chase accounts and moved to a community credit union and I will never, ever, ever, ever open an account at a for-profit bank again.

Jeez I’m usually on board with this site, but the sarcastic congratulations here seems a little unfair...

Implicit here are the dubious notions that it is possible to cure violence with further violence,

I used to drink half a dozen cans of Diet Cokea day from college into my late 20s but then I gave up all soda for Lent one year and when it was over I just never drink soda again. I’ve been 10 years now soda-free.

NPR’s Invisabilia podcast

I thought the ban wasn’t even about choking at all (lots of foods can be choked on: hard candy, meat with bones, etc.), but because the original 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act was trying to prevent food from being sold with dangerous, undisclosed fillers like sawdust and then later novelties like Kinder Eggs just got…

But In-n-Out is also in Texas...

I was expecting to read something-something yogurt...

Hey! Ashley Feinberg is America’s greatest investigative journalist and I refuse to believe otherwise!!

This is the classic HamNo-ing that I didn’t realize I’d been missing in my life.

This makes me miss the Ask A Clean Person column on Deadspin even more.

This is terrible advice. If I’ve learned anything from witnessing a round of corporate layoffs and seeing who is left afterward it’s that no workplace is a meritocracy and good networking and being liked is almost more important than competence.

I actually, for a moment, thought that was a Star Trek uniform.

I actually, for a moment, thought that was a Star Trek uniform.

Or, ya know, people with disabilities. You have no idea how many alternate shoe lace products I’ve gone through for my kid with cerebral palsy? Velcro, zip ties, hair bands, Zubits magnetic closures... The list goes on...

Or, ya know, people with disabilities. You have no idea how many alternate shoe lace products I’ve gone through for…

I’m so glad you're here and The Concourse gets to be New Gawker.

The Oklahoma City Memorial and Museum does just fine more than 2 decades later and it’s mostly funded by the annual OKC Memorial Marathon.

I really, really like my credit union.

My company Christmas party is more what us younger employees refer to as “prom for old people.” Think black ties and sequined gowns in a giant rented museum ballroom. It’s weird. At least there’s good catering and bars of booze.