Alas, no. I know a lot of people who got screwed by deadbeat parents and the like. The policy seems to be to assume that all possible parents love you and want you to go to college and can and will donate every free cent to that goal, no matter what the reality of your actual family situation is.

There are a lot of reasons, but here's one that sometimes applies to me:

Interestingly, that's the same exact response I get when I tell people I loathe chicken. I'm pretty sure that hating the taste of alcohol is much more common and socially acceptable, though.

Says someone who has obviously never added spiced rum to their pumpkin pie.

My book learnin's (a.k.a. my BS in Business) tells me this is called a "loss leader". When you see a deal that makes you say, "how are they even making money off of that," they usually aren't. They're getting you to enter the store long enough to buy a bunch of other stuff that they will make money off of. See also:…

Given that I'm not a christian, I'd be very surprised if he showed up to voice any sort of opinion.

Fair.

I'd have to think about it, and it'd probably vary on a case-by-case basis. I'd most probably take it if it was roughly equivalent to a very good coupon that they might do just as a promotion - something like $5 off of a $10 item I had been thinking of trying. Or if it was a small amount. I'd probably feel weird about…

Oh, that's a completely valid way to look it at, and I'm not judging you in any way if you do. I'm just saying that it's iffy under my personal code of ethics, which I have no expectation of exactly matching anyone else's and therefore don't ask other people to live by.

I'm iffy on this.

But what kind of meditation is that graphic from? There's more than one kind of meditation, and the "clearing your mind of all thought" version does exist. I, personally, find it easier to achieve than the mindfulness version (though I doubt that's true for all that many people; a lot of people get caught by the old…

The headline is deceptive. What the study actually shows is that cramming doesn't work as well, not that it doesn't work at all. For those of us that can recall information fairly well after a single read-through (at least for a certain period of time), reading a chapter the night before a test or reading it two…

It pretty much isn't. None of my friends' kids (ages 6-ish to 14-ish) have been taught it in school. And this is school districts across a few different states.

(The word I was going for was "unintelligible".)

These things happen when you're running on three hours sleep and no coffee.

This. Despite still having to sign credit slips all the time, even my signature is almost completely intelligible at this point. You can pretty much count on being able to make out the R and h in my first name, and the J at the beginning of my last name. Getting anything other than "squiggly line going vaguely up and…

This is completely correct - which is, incidentally, one of the top 3 reasons why I never want to be a manager ever again. I'm terrible at letting go of the important or difficult things well enough to delegate them, which was ultimately bad for the company, my subordinates' growth, and my sanity. Better all around if…

I'm not a fan of this article, as it implies that emotions like frustration, depression, and anxiety are something you always have direct control over. While that may or may not be true for the average person (I'll let others debate that), it doesn't account for the very large number of people suffering from clinical…

I'm not a fan of this article, as it implies that emotions like frustration, depression, and anxiety are something you always have direct control over. While that may or may not be true for the average person (I'll let others debate that), it doesn't account for the very large number of people suffering from clinical…

I'm not a fan of this article, as it implies that emotions like frustration, depression, and anxiety are something you always have direct control over. While that may or may not be true for the average person (I'll let others debate that), it doesn't account for the very large number of people suffering from clinical…