There's an excellent Ted Talk on why people who manage nonprofits should be on a similar payscale to those who are at for-profit businesses. I don't usually watch or recommend Ted Talks but this one made some interesting points. I do think things are different if you're discussing an organization staffed primarily…

Have you watched "Ally McBeal" at all?

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Can anyone give me a satisfactory explanation for why she has to keep buying more shoes? Does she need to go into rehab because this is an addiction? I'm a woman and I dress with a certain amount of flair and I don't have forty or more pairs of shoes. It's fine to love fashion but when it starts to jeopardize your…

Yeah. I'm in the nonprofit sector and there have been multiple discussions regarding why one has to practically take a vow of poverty to work at a job which does good in the world. Many of them still require a college degree which you'll never be able to pay off on the pittance you make and your…

One of the best relationships on the show was Charlotte and Harry. Actually, the moment I remember most from the show is when she walked in and he was relaxing on the white sofa. I don't understand why anyone would want to own a sofa at all let alone a white one.

No, but he was an excellent public speaker and he turned the economy around. He might have been a better person all the way around if his doctors hadn't see-sawed him between morphine and atropine. But there are all kinds of theories on that.

I see what you did there and I like it.

Carrie was so much prettier the first three seasons before someone told her to hit the gym and she got that stringy sort of Madonna look. In the season 4 and 5 pictures, she looks so much older. And why did Miranda have a mullet for so long? Not even a cool Joan Jett cut either but an "I'm growing out a pixie cut I…

They do have family members who are still alive and might want a little time to grieve before the capitalistic vultures move in.

Because it looks like they had it in the can already and decided to release it now because of the buzz caused by their deaths. They're assuming the topicality will result in more eyeballs even if those eyeballs are red and awash in still falling tears.

I'd like to say this is awful but, considering all the truly wretched things going on in the world, this isn't a grain of sand on the beach. Cynical, money-grubbing, unworthy even of Scrooge though? Yes. I will say that. Or in the words of the great Rahm Emanuel "Never let a good crisis (tragedy) go to waste."

I used to check the album out from the library and listen to it over and over. This will surprise nobody but Sondheim is a genius. OMG "Ladies Who Lunch". But it's not a quaint notion for women who are 35 or 40 as evidenced by women I have worked with plus that scene in "Sleepless in Seattle".

I used to love and hate getting books for Christmas. Love because books and hate because as soon as you open it you want to read it, but parents keep saying "Great Aunt Edith came all this way to see you so the least you could do is blah blah blah." #curmudgeon

Actually, nuance does exist. On a newspaper's website, below an article about energy drinks, one commenter called an advocate for the beverages a "moron". I expanded on this by describing the first commenter as a "moron so hyped up on energy drinks that he's unable to focus long enough to properly use punctuation."…

Now you've reminded me of that whole "Buffy and Spike hook up repeatedly and she's justifiably embarrassed" thing. I still don't get that.

I'm a white person who's never seen an episode of The Wire and I live with a white person who hasn't either. Then again, I hadn't seen an episode of Ally McBeal until yesterday. From 1995 until about 2003, I lived way out in the sticks where there was no TV reception and we refused to pay for cable. I occasionally…

That title isn't worse than "Scrotal Recall". Scrotal Recall was recommended to me by a goodly number of women even before they changed the name of the show to "Lovesick". I still haven't checked it out yet though.

I have been revisiting "The Rockford Files" on Netflix. I watched many of the episodes when they were originally broadcast but there were a lot I missed. James Garner was 46 when the series started and the character kind of reflects that: He's had some life experience, he's learned from it, and he'd rather use his…

Why'd you have to go there, man? Now I can't even go try Angry Orchard.