My brother-in-law had it and he got Alzheimer’s.  It was supposed to cover about five years but he mercifully died after a little more than a year in a care home.  It’s worth it IF you don’t get one of the bad ones that refuses to pay out.  My brother-in-law’s did pay out, and both my parents are in a nice…

Me too...I survived five rounds of layoffs but with each round, more and more work got piled on the people who were left, with absolutely NO slack in the system for anyone to get a stomach bug (for example) or anything like that. That’s how I ended up going to work sick one day. In 26 years I had only had a handful of…

The Music Lovers (1971) was one of the most depressing movies I ever saw. Halfway through I thought “Even if I were Glenda Jackson in this movie, it’s not THAT bad to be despised and hated by one’s mother AND one’s husband...she could maybe run off to the American West and be Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke?”  

I’m sick of seeing “turned him into police.”

I think a lot of us women like to wear sandals to show off our nail polish.  I personally don’t get professional pedicures but I take good care of my feet and get compliments sometimes

At soul food restaurants, men *will* be asked to take their hats off.  Who’s gonna die on that hill?  It would be mortifying to be with a man who refused in a situation like that because Lifehacker said so.  

According to the book _Nature’s Best Hope_, another thing you can do is set up ground-cover areas under trees and/or blocked off with landscaping rocks or bricks, and let the leaves fall and remain naturally to decompose in those areas.  Then as the tree’s canopy expands, you can increase the area of ground cover that…

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I have a whole-house water-pressure regulator.  I have my whole-house water turned to the lowest it will still come out of the 2nd floor shower (old house) so my shower is automatically a low-flow shower.  I am told whole-house water pressure should be between 50 and 70 psi ... I think...   anyway if your sink drips…

Missouri Democrats are holding a “Hawlin’ Hawley” virtual 5k

I’ve heard at least one confused man saying he’s going to vote “no” because he thinks “yes” means increased taxes.  

Do people in Asia where most people wear masks, do they take them off to eat in restaurants indoors?  Just curious.  I would think that’s where a lot of transmission happens, but what do they do in Japan indoors in restaurants?  Thanks

That’s Midwesterners for you.  I put it down to the days when farms were big and spread out, so the four houses of four adjacent farms would be right together in the “four corners” area so as to render neighborly aid.  I pulled that out of my ass, but in an empty movie theatre they’ll all congregate in the center as…

I used to write for a “Grumpy old person” cartoon and always had them do this.  

My Dad’s cousin really did find a big bag of money! It was during the Great Depression. He signed up for some kind of WPA job cleaning up abandoned houses. 60-odd years later, my Dad was out fishing and ran into that cousin and said “I just wanna know one thing. How much money was in that bag?”  Cousin:  “Joe, there…

As it happens, I had sex ed in 1973 in South Carolina and no, I didn’t have these falsehoods.  The religious right got organized in the 80's and brought some of these topics with their agenda. No, we didn’t have anything about gay sex (that I remember) or emergency contraception (it hadn’t been invented yet I don’t…

The only thing worse than a do-gooder is a journalist trying to come up with an “edgy” angle to stand out from the pack and get more rage-clicks.  

Now that I think about it, I almost made that mistake when the pandemic first started. I was thinking some really dark thoughts about what I would do if a certain person died...and I was more absent-minded than usual. I wasn’t looking as carefully as I should have and a woman was walking her dog and I was going to…

At the risk of sounding like an incel, you’re probably good-looking and don’t know what it’s like to go around looking ordinary :-)   

I think this is especially true of vehicles planning on turning right on red.  MAKE SURE they see you!  SO often they don’t look to their right.