They should all the wear the required shirts but wear them inside out.

Pre-internet days I heard a lovely story about a family who lost one of their sons when he was in his very early twenties. They had him cremated and the ashes stored in those little beakers with the screw tops. Anyone who came to his memorial could take one as long as they promised to send his parents a letter telling…

What depresses me about these photos is not one suit appears to be correctly tailored to fit. You can’t buy a suit off the rack - alterations are included in the purchase price. Also, they are never called out on this.

Smoking was also a spiritual practice of an indigenous people later oppressed by colonialism. I’ve never heard of anyone trying to ban it for that reason.

Even people who have read it apparently didn’t read it very closely and miss the part where the hero is very definitely not white, but it only comes up halfway through the book when he is talking about putting on makeup to go out for a night on the town.

When I leave a job, this is the song I send everyone. Can’t find a post of her actually playing it live, so this will have to do. I don’t post much but I loved Millihelen and I’m sorry to see it go.

It’s not possible to effectively water a lawn with a handheld hose. The water needs to hit the same spot for 10 minutes. People who use a handheld hose always have the water turned on too hard and never are thorough enough. When the water is on too hard, it just washes across the surface instead of sinking in an inch…

Spite and Malice is a great card game!

Good piece!

As I heard the story, she required reconstructive surgery on her genitals, and the jury awarded more money (determined by polling afterwards) because the McDonalds attorney argued that they shouldn’t have to pay for it because she was so old she didn’t need genitals anymore.

She gets to pretend to be a martyr, you mean. With so many mistakenly lauding her as a hero, she isn’t a martyr. Until now, she’s paid no price for her actions and receive a lot of positive attention. Let the judge keep her in jail and she stop giving press conferences and I will begin considering that she is a martyr…

If she were a martyr, she would have quietly resigned from her position. The fact that many mistakenly laud her as a hero for her actions automatically means she’s not a martyr.

I don’t understand why “most slaves were well treated” is even a defense. Let’s pretend, for example, that a slave was treated as well as I treat my dog. I love my dog. He eats when I choose, what I choose and how often I choose. He gets what medical care I decide he needs. He sleeps where I choose. He gets what…

Required:

My favorite true crime show will always be The New Detectives. I miss that show. Instead of focusing on the victims, the show focused on new developments in forensic science that helped catch and convict criminals.

Ken was my Barbie’s butler.

When I was in college long, long ago, I took a criminology class. One of the things we learned was that crimes that were formerly labeled as “double suicides” were now being labeled as “murder suicides” as they most often occurred with old, sick husbands and much younger wives, and the murdered wives almost always had…

My last office was so cold that I brought in a space heater, had a sweater and wore fingerless gloves so I could type. All the guys in IT (half of whom were over 6 feet and hefty) also were always complaining about the cold. But they never fixed it. We had so many space heaters going that we blew a fuse and after that…

At this point in the election cycle, most serious Republicans are not paying attention yet. There’s little point in getting behind a nominee before the Iowa caucus/New Hampshire primary. If Trump does well there, I’ll be surprised. Sure, media loves Trump because he’s a nutjob who’ll say anything, which makes for…

It’s also great over ice cream.