(I mean, I get it: It takes so very little effort to imagine a better, more-supportive world than this one. But that’s just it: A bus that picks up every 30 minutes near this woman’s home and then drives by her kid’s day care is hardly the stuff of Tomorrowland.)

Maybe the realization many of these guys have come to is that A.) holding political office absolutely sucks and B.) running for political office is a great way to make money.

7:00AM: You’ve already lost me: Shouldn’t there be efficient, comfortable mass transit serving this woman’s neighborhood?

At all? That’s putting it a little strongly. But, in the main, no: Once you have people financially depending on you, you cannot, in fact, chase your dreams. That’s being irresponsible. Immature, even. Add in a mildly disabling medical condition and then you really can’t play games like this. Them’s the breaks.

It’s an odd thing: I have two groups of friends, some of them are chronically un/underemployed humanities doctorates. They’ve made huge life sacrifices to pursue the work they love and it seems pretty unlikely they’ll ever be financially rewarded for it.

Y’know who’s even more liberal than the Assemblies of God? Motherfucking. Anyone.

It’s okay. I prefer this:

Ori and the Blind Forest is not an exclusive: It’s on PC.

Thorin, your colleague Albert Burneko over on Adequate Man already did the definitive run-down (or, if you prefer, takedown) of Xbox One:

Virtual Reality: No, It Really Hasn’t Improved At All!

Don’t leave out Huma Abedin! Not quite as firework-y as the other two but still a basic showing of a competent woman versus...those guys.

Sex is terrible. Seriously, why would anyone have sex? I mean maybe 25 or 50 years sex was okay, but I think today sex is just so over. Nobody should have sex. I’m going to go hang out with those severely autistic people who are obsessed with train schedules. I think they’re the ones who really know where it’s at.

For this purpose, I prefer this:

Viva Las Vegas

There’s a whole genre of misheard lyrics. The lady in my life apparently thought ZZ Top’s iconic song was “People Love Bagels” for a many, many years.

By Atheismo, YES this is such a thing.

Or you could just watch ONE movie...

Just gonna sit this out and pitch pennies until the sequel or remake of The Last Starfighter comes out. . .

Re, the Hawaiian shirt/bottomless coffee guy: Yeah, I don’t know what it is with people looking for love and thinking the barista or counterperson or whoever is their hot opportunity but. . . no. I would bet dollars to donuts that no one, anywhere, ever, has successfully asked a barista out on a date. Not that there’s…

Or you could just obey the law. That would also be a choice that you could make.