Straight out bragging here. I buy boxes of full size candy at Costco and give them all out. I live on a corner in a really nice house and light up the yard with inflatable ghosts and spiders and pumpkins so everyone knows there is candy here. Lots of kids get driven to the neighborhood (we see the cars) and I have a…

I live in a lower-middle class neighborhood that is bordered by much poorer areas and every year at Halloween, those poorer, mostly black families come through to trick-or-treat. Sure, a lot of them don't have costumes. But maybe they can't afford them or don't have parents that care enough to help them out. Sure, a…

Getting someone to drive you to the "best" neighborhoods for candy is an american tradition. I did it, my parents did it, no doubt my grandparents did it. These are the rules of trick or treating. First, you hit the "best" neighborhoods and get as much candy as you can (and at least one of you is carrying an extra…

Celtic Studies nerd here... actually Hallowe'en has traditionally been a time of giving bread or treats to the less fortunate. In medieval Britain and Ireland, the poor would go souling, which is going house to house and offering songs or prayers for the dead of the household in exchange for food, or guising, where…

Yay!!! You're like a fairy godparent waving a wand and making all my dreams come true. I'm a real girl now!

People suck, but I am not surprised by this, because I have heard the very same thing from some of my neighbors. I live in a historic neighborhood (so the houses are old and close together) in the downtown of a city and Halloween is a HUGE deal there. Lots of people go all out on decorations (we do a whole graveyard…

Our neighborhood (solidly middle-middle class) is situated right on the edge of the suburbs. Past us, the landscape quickly turns to farms and intermittent trailer parks. We get loads of trick-or-treaters carpooled in from the outlying areas, because those kids don't have a neighborhood to t-o-t in. The first year we…

Of course, if anyone were to use welfare to buy candy for their kid, this person would be screaming about how they should be buying nutritious food instead.

But it just bugs me, because we already pay more than enough taxes toward actual social services.

The saddest part about that was that I figured out later that the blender doesn't twist off, it JUST LIFTS OFF. My old blender twisted off. This is my boyfriend's blender. I poured soup on my foot for no reason.

When you're putting something hot in the blender just remove the little plastic circle thingie in the middle of the lid and cover the hole with a dish towel.

I hear you. People are keeping the torch burning though.

Oh man the halcyon days of Showbiz before that asshole Chuck E Cheese got his greasy paws on the thing

Not to mention that the term Redskin was originally translated from a Native American term.

http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/redski…

I'll see your Strongbow, and raise you a Tatanka.

Dan Snyder's a jerk, and there's no doubt that relying on this "Chief Dodson" guy the way they did was clumsy and misguided on the team's part. But the fact is — all that aside — the overwhelming majority of Native Americans don't actually find the name offensive.

I can't tell you how many times I read that part wondering "Am I gonna have to read this whole thing again to find the sentence I missed that makes this make sense? Did it never make sense?"

If Daniel Snyder wanted someone who could withstand the scrutiny of playing both a Chief and an Indian, he should have hired Hank Azaria.