I say this as a former Army officer, but war is too cheap now. With drones, cruise missiles, and near impenetrable tanks, it’s just dollars down the hole. As Robert E. Lee said “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” We’ve made war cheap and cheapened lives in the end.

ATL LOLZ FTW

I totally dropped the ball on this. With our first one, we let her sleep with us a couple times, and it turned into nearly 3 years of co-sleeping. It was the worst. She would wear disney princess dresses all the time, even to sleep. Taffeta is hot as hell in the summer. When we found out we were having another, we…

False - rollercoasters are actually the safest means of mass transit.  There were 500 fatalities associated with airplanes in 2018, vs 25 through 1972-1997.

Part of it is the old saw that politics stop at the water’s edge. While Ds & Rs may be at each other’s throats in DC, when they’re abroad they’re all American and put on a unified front.

How is Johnny Depp not on this list? Dude stopped acting after Edward Scissorhands and is just varying levels of over the top.  He may have acted at some point in the past, but now he’s just the same eccentric person in every movie. 

Not only should you resign cordially and professionally, you should have a transition plan ready to go. Make sure it details all your open projects & status, all important internal and external customer/ supplier contacts, and any lingering issues that you won’t be able to close in your notice window. This will help…

I’ve been fortunate enough to know some very rich people, even related to a couple. The vast majority have very restrained tastes. They have couches and clothes just like everyone, but the material, fit, & quality is way better than what you get at Target or Lay-z-boy. It looks similar, but a closer look or a touch…

I travel to China from the US East Coast frequently.  Alteril is a god send.  A couple nights with those and I’m on track to whichever time zone I’m in.  The only downside I have is the really weird dreams Alteril gives me.  I literally wake up saying “what the fuck was that?!?!?”

It’s going to be interesting in a couple months when they resume taping to see how other people mimic his play style.  After Austin won big, people started hoping around the board hunting the daily doubles.  I think James’s method is better if you know your stuff and have the buzzer timing down.

I live in a small city (250k people) in Pennsylvania.  Trump came for a rally last year and stuck us with a $50k bill for police/fire service.  This is not news if you’ve watched his career.

The quickest way to stem illegal immigration isn’t a larger wall, but cut off the reason to come here. We made public corporations sign off they don’t cook the books after Enron through Sarbanes-Oxley, we need the same thing with E-verify. Make all public CEOs personally attest that neither they, nor their…

I remember Rush Limbaugh complaining during the Clinton presidency about how much we were going to miss the separation of powers as the congress allowed Clinton to do more and more unilaterally.  It’s odd how that resonates today.

We do profit sharing at our company. The owner let the employees know their checks took a $200 hit last quarter thanks to the impact of Trump’s tariff as we buy a lot from China. Most of the employees are MAGA hat wearers, so the stunned look in their eyes was hilarious.

The other point for LW2, it’s human nature to always assume you’re in the worst possible time. Things always look better in the rear view mirror. That same mirror tends to block out stuff like Jim Crow, the actual Holocaust, trench warfare, Spanish Flu, Black Death, ect., ect., ect.

Local law enforcement leadership uniforms have always driven me nuts. I was in the Army, and while most field grade officers could cover their chest with ribbons, they would usually just put the ones that meant something to them on for day to day wear.

Handkerchief carrier here. I’ve used it for toilet paper in a public toilet in China once and never been so grateful.

And it’s an infraction if you provide butter.  Coach will get a show cause for mayo.

I travel to China 2-3 times a year on business and I’m almost to the point where I prefer dim sum or soup for breakfast over the big ol’ American breakfast I’m used to.  Char siu sounds delicious right now.

This is the issue exactly. Since colleges know they will get their money from the students regardless of what they charge & the government knows they will get their money because you can’t get rid of loan debt anymore, there are no cost controls. The only ones who suffer are the students.