Good for you for making time out of your busy schedules to cook real food. Bad on you for not realizing how completely tone deaf your post is. In fact, it’s a near perfect example of the ‘if I can do it, everyone can’ reasoning.

Depends on where you live. Usually it’s apples, bananas, and oranges that are the cheapest and can be found at convenience stores for a sizable mark up. The big problem is that they can go bad quickly. A person on a really tight budget might have to choose between spending $2.99 on a couple of pounds of oranges that…

Or that people can become disabled and are unable to work but still have a car, clothes, etc...that they bought when they were working. I have patients that can’t work but drive cars that they bought before they got sick. It makes no sense for them to get rid of the car, especially if it’s paid off, and rely on public…

I honestly think that people who say that don’t really want to talk about race. They want to talk about about the things that make them feel good about themselves like how they’re not racist and how they don’t see color. Anything that makes them feel bad or calls them out on not really hearing what people are saying…

Some people are lucky enough to have accounts that have minimal fees or to make enough to absorb some of the fees relatively painlessly. Or can access ATMs linked to their banks. Cards like this, which are already aimed at lower income people, just eat up everything. There’s no RushCard ATMs so, if you’re going to a…

Worse are black people who prey on other black people and then talk about supporting ‘the community’. No, dude, you’re just supporting yourself on the back of ‘the community’. RushCard looked scammy from the get go and I’m sure some people opted to use it rather than a credit union or smaller bank because it’s Russell…

So many people fail to understand anything outside of their own experience. I wonder if it ever dawned on her that stores like Costco and Sam’s Club have membership fees and are usually located in suburban areas that aren’t easily accessible for people who don’t drive. Probably not.

Because some people live in areas where businesses don’t take bank cards. I very rarely carry cash and I’m always surprised when a place is cash only.

This is the reality for a lot of people. We have a couple of kids killed here, all caught in the crossfire between rival drug dealers. It’s not just a gun issue, it’s a gang/drug issue as well.

It’s not just the guns. It’s the mindset that every problem must be solved with guns. Don’t like somebody, shoot at them. That has to change as well.

Agreed. The point of Op-Ed sections is to give writers a chance to give their opinions on topics - it’s even in the title of the section. They don’t have to be popular opinions. In some cases, they can be completely, totally wrongheaded and ridiculous. But it’s important to have those unpopular opinions out there, I…

You’re also paying residuals to all of the other actors. In fact, odds are they feel it more because, unlike Bill Cosby, they weren’t massive celebs prior to the Cosby Show. And, honestly, I think it does a disservice to the actors, creators, and writers - anyone who wasn’t Bill Cosby - to try to erase the Cosby Show…

It could also be an emotional come down - not a let down but just coming off of the built up emotions and sensations. The brain does weird stuff and weird times.

Not having an orgasm doesn’t mean that the sex was bad or bland. Just that it didn’t totally get you off. Which means it might be time to find out what does the trick and make that happen.

Good on you. I’ve gotten in trouble for reporting a care provider that was abusing her clients and, even though the facility ended up being closed, I also had my license threatened. Fear of lawsuits and bad press have made people wary and put more people at risk.

I think it’s fine to have a type. The problem is that being unwilling to step a little outside of that can keep you from meeting fun, interesting, and enjoyable people. And then there’s the people who aren’t just satisfied with having a type, they have to inform everyone else how and why other people fail to meet…

I don’t consider dating only your race to be racist unless this is paired with the belief that other races are inherently inferior or are somehow too different for you to be comfortable with. I think people in general tend to date the people they are most comfortable with and, for good or ill, that can mean not going…

Considering that mom plotted a murder with her 13 year old daughter, I’m sure the whole 18 year old boyfriend wasn’t really that big of a deal to her.

I think it’s rare that the family members of accused criminals don’t say something along the lines of ‘he/she was so normal’ or ‘he/she is a good person’. And an 18 year old with a 13 year old isn’t that unusual in some places. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is a whole other thing.

It’s a legitimate disorder. Specifically it’s a type of factitious disorder - a person derives attention from lying about and faking symptoms in either themselves or others. Factitious disorder imposed on another is how it’s listed in the DSM-5. So it’s real but it’s hard to diagnose because people with it are really…