You have more faith than me. I fear that they will try to pander to the Trump voting bloc and align their choices with his to appeal to his mass of angry, white voters for re-election purposes.

How does that make it better? It means no one can control him.

Can we leave pierogi out of this? :(

I’m originally from that part of PA and while I wouldn’t call the area diverse, I’ve never heard of anything about some kind of heavy KKK presence. Obviously judge your safety for yourself. I think they do some planned coordinated night sky watching events, so maybe you could go to one of those where there would be a…

Your casual reference to Darius Kasparaitis probably means we should be best friends.

I did not know about this, but now I’m excited to have a place to see a cat when I’m having a bad day! :)

I scrolled down specifically to see whether anyone else enjoyed Rough Guide. I really liked it when I was traveling as a student, and felt like it skewed younger than Fodor’s or Lonely Planet. I still prefer trying to find a Rough Guide if I’m going to a new city/country, just because it gives me ideas that I don’t…

I think it just goes in as a useful feature if you are using the battery in an emergency situation.

I think it just goes in as a useful feature if you are using the battery in an emergency situation.

I realized how bad secondhand stress can be in my freshman year of college when my roommate was a highly expressive worrier, who constantly vented her stress onto me. Most of her anxieties were about how her horse was adjusting to a new stable and the fact that she couldn’t spend enough time with it...

A good friend works for the State Department and had to learn French for a posting. It was the 6 month course, and it’s very intense. Essentially, the entire work day spent learning the language, followed by home studying, all to pass a series of oral exams to be sufficiently fluent for communicating with locals at…

My first assumption for why they wouldn’t stock it: it might be an item that they determined has a higher probability for being shoplifted.

I am also part of the tuxedo cat club. Von Kitty charms every visitor I receive.

If I was a boy I was going to be named Samson, per my dad's wishes (mom picked my older brother's name and so it was dad's turn). My last name starts with an S, so it would have been alliterative, too. My mom was so relieved that I was a girl.

My dad kinda did this for my mom back in the 70s. Backstory: she was from a very poor family and had moved around a ton from crappy rental homes her whole life. My dad took my mom to the plot of land he had picked out, and played it off as "What do you think about someday having a house together here? Let's talk…

He probably was inspired by the use of incendiary pigs in ancient warfare. The Romans covered pigs in some kind of flammable tar, lit them on fire and somehow directed them toward some enemy to spook the horses and elephants. It was apparently very effective.