My mom and sister-in-law always cheated to lose if they were beating my brother. He would be depressed for days when he lost.

I am very sorry for your loss.

Actually, the projectionist should have stayed the first few minutes just to make sure that the movie was in focus and the sound was good. It annoys the crap out of me that they never do anymore.

Have you heard Wanda Sykes routine on this? I don’t have time to find a link (sorry) but the bad paraphrase goes “Well, you should care if someone is purple. It means they’re choking to death!”

Tracy, I enjoyed the article but I think you (and Christine Porath) are wrong about one aspect of being a dick at work. I once worked for an incredibly abusive employer. It was a partnership, and I worked for the mean one. The other two were the quiet mean one and the loud mean one. People do not believe some of the…

I was written up for laughing too loud once. I was working for a Big 6 accounting firm at the time, and it was tax season. My boss told me that if I was laughing, I wasn’t working. And also that my laughing distracted everyone from their work and made them feel bad for actually working. They also wrote me up for…

A wise woman told me that Jesus didn’t say that you had to stick around and let people continue to hurt you. It’s perfectly acceptable to forgive them (that is, not carry around the hatred for all time) while living very far away from them and having nothing to do with them.

Repentance requires an act of contrition in many Christian faiths. I’ve heard nothing about him even apologizing to those he harmed. Or being punished for his behavior.

Jesus is not against basketball... A little blast from the past.

In pre-internet days, I once got written up at work for laughing too loud. It was “distracting” to “people who actually wanted to work.” The next day, one of my colleagues told me that hearing me laugh always made her able to stand work because it reminded her that they can’t suck all the joy out of living.

The issue about ratting out your neighbor is that, in my experience, no one knows their neighbors here in L.A. I’ve lived in the same house for 24 years. I know the neighbors to my left to be friends with, and the neighbors across the street by name and chat with them when I walk the dog. I never see any of the other…

If I had been running the business and for some reason couldn’t enter $20, I would have given everyone back their pennies when they paid so they would know we weren’t thieves. It made me wonder what other things they did.

I don’t know that I would call the restaurant to complain about pennies but I stopped going to the gas station where you would pay $20 and they would code the pump with $19.99. The first time, I was in a hurry. The second time, I went in and made them give me my change and never went back. 1,000 customers may only net…

My mother was raised in an abusive home. She always said that the best way to be a good parent was to simply not do all the things to your kids that you hated that your parents did to you.

The dresses are the best part of the movie. The costuming really holds up over time, whereas many of the other parts of the movie do not. However, the movie is a million times less problematic than the book. I remember loving this book when I read it at age 11. Many years later, I read it again and was really, really…

I find this comment really, really funny because (as on old) I miss the days when straight guys would wear short shorts, bright colors and take pains with their appearance. Think Starsky and Hutch, or young Tom Selleck.

Only a layman here, but as I understood it, the differences between the brains of the two genders are always less than the differences across a single gender. That is, there is substantially more variation between all men, or all women, than between the averaged scores of the two groups.

Are they promoting shirts tucked in at the belly button and loose the rest of the way around for everyone? It makes the model look drunk to me.

It’s not so simple as that. My mom had dementia. She had been married four times, including the last marriage to my Dad which lasted fifty years. She became unstuck in time. She would often be confused about how old she was and who she was married to. She would be telling me about one of her former husbands as if they…

Also, suicide can be contagious. We need to be extra alert to everyone’s mental health when a friend or family member has committed suicide.