I can't be the only service worker who got regularly hit up to join MLMs. The worst were the regular customers who'd gotten sucked in and were working everyone they knew, trying to recruit their own downline. I thought you were a decent person, buddy, until you pulled that.

When I'm asked if I've found Jesus, I reply, "What? Have you lost him AGAIN?"

One of the drawbacks of being young is that it makes you an absolute magnet for kooks, cranks, and the generally annoying. Young people tend to be inexperienced and socialized to be polite to their elders. So they make an ideal captive audience to harangue and harass. I'm at the age now that I can quell kooks with…

So, does this mean Haribo Gummy Bears should be part of a pre-colonoscopy prep?

Costco's All American Chocolate Cake. The cake weighs something like eight pounds. It feed at least fifteen people easily. The icing/filling is a rich deep chocolate flavor and it is garnished with flakes of bittersweet chocolate. The only drawback is that you need a crowd to finish it...it's just that rich.

I haven't. The problem with the ultra-strong and three-ply toilet papers is that they tend to plug up in older low-flow toilets. I haven't had to play plumber since switching to Kirkland tp. It's well worth not having to clear toilet blockages.

Um, you know that non-Costco members can purchase directly from Costco.com and pay only a 5% surcharge, right? There's no need to use Amazon as the middleman.

Wrong. The problem with poor customer service in this country is caused by the devaluing of the jobs and thus of the workers. Service work - that is, service work that primarily involves working with other people - is the at the bottom of the jobs caste, and people's attitudes towards service workers reflect this. The…

Even as the Sultan has portrayed himself as a friend of the West for decades, and has participated in all the decadent "pleasures" his own laws condemn.

Is a 24 year old an adult, and thus responsible for her choices, or is she not? Why are you intent on infantilizing a grownup. She went to DC planning to hook up with the President. She was an idiot. He was an idiot, a creep, a bounder. They deserved each other and they both earned the shame and humiliation after…

This is the point if you're into gardening. I put in a substantial amount of effort and expense to create a beautifully landscaped private oasis. It's where I escape to every evening after I get home from work. It's peaceful, it's pretty. Fragrant, too. It's my hobby and my refuge from the world. And when I'm feeling…

Also being able to work less physically-demanding jobs. Most service jobs entail near-constant standing, usually on concrete floors. After a few decades of that, you'll be lucky if you are still physically functional by the time you hit your late 50s.

It looks to me as if this process works up to a certain point in the aging process, after which it reverses. Think about all the uber-cranky old farts you're (unfortunately) exposed to. As they get older, they become more childish. We have elderly Tea Partiers throwing public tantrums like a bunch of three year olds.

I like these very well. I even use these for my outdoor movie nights. They provide plenty of sound to cover a 13 x 17 square foot patio lined with chairs. But Amazon has these on another listing right now for $85.00 with Prime. Also, Amazon tends to run them on sale periodically for as low as $60.00.

This is where paying a visit to the nearest police station is helpful. Get the local crime statistics from them. Buy a cop a cup of coffee and ask his or her opinion of the neighborhood. They're usually happy to oblige. Ask the same questions of small merchants in the area. Churches, too.

It's not much different from what those of us who graduated college in the early 1980s went through. Cratered economy, housing bubble, double-digit mortgage interest rates, delayed career launches, balloon mortgages, and lenders switching terms at closing, forcing buyers to decide between taking an even worse screwing…

McDonalds used to cook fresh-cut french fries in beef tallow. It's what accounted for their famous flavor. For the past forty years or so, they switched to frozen french fries that have beef flavor compounds sprayed on them, and cook them in vegetable oil.

And here's why the media of that era seized on the story, and why so many people were interested:

I looked into the Kingston before I bought a pocket wifi hub. The Kingston is far more expensive, it has shorter battery life and limited format support. For a fraction of its price I can use my existing storage with the hub and not worry about file formats or file size. Frankly, if it hadn't been for its price, I…

The major drawback of cloud storage is that your files are only available when you have internet access with decent bandwidth. There are so many situations when that isn't the case for me, so it just isn't useful for me to pursue.