That would be an interesting argument if it were true. While schools receive a lot of funding from local property taxes they also receive substantial state and federal funds that are appropriated based on how many students attend the school.

Yeah, but this completely misses the awesome side benefit of all of this which is that the super-wealthy can use that extra $200,000 a year in tax savings each year to pay for the portion of private-school tuition that my tax-funded dollars don’t cover. So really, it’s a win win (if by win win you mean two wins for…

I think you’ll be fine. You’re going to have a great time! The subway is easy to navigate and all the stations are color coded with icons so you don’t even need to be literate to use them.

Even without no new royal tomb discovery, Teotihuacan is one of the most amazing places I’ve ever visited. I really recommend people check it out. As a bonus, it’s just an hour outside of one of the most amazing and, in my opinion, underrated tourist destinations on the planet: Mexico City. I’m going back for my third…

I tell this to people all the time: If you’re really looking for the nexus of where “super easy to make” meets “wow, this looks so impressive!” then, shockingly, I direct you to a lobster dinner.

Is this Lifehacker article talking about them also marketed at kids? When it says that this drink is just as bad for “you” is that targeted at “you, a kid?” No, this is a blog marketed toward adults and my response was for readers of this blog, adults.

Ron Chernow did a pretty good job of discussing this incident as well as a number of other times the Washingtons took a firm stance to hunt down runaways. While it wasn’t the focus of the book, Chernow did a great job, in my opinion, of exploring the contradictions and mindset of Washington in regards to not only his…

Alternatively, it is ONLY as bad as other milkshakes. Clearly, nobody in their right mind thought this was a fruit smoothie (which, side note, also loaded with sugar) and nobody in their right mind went into this thinking it was a gourmet coffee drink. It is what it is.

Go for it. But throw some money at me if it gets optioned as a motion picture lol. Here would be an even more interesting aspect: If some super-computer or demi-god or whatever existed that could know the future to the level where they could do this, it would be pretty transparent that they were allocating you…

I think in my head I mean that the powers that be know the date you will die and allocate resources to you accordingly. Whether it’s a super-computer running statistical analysis or some demi-god who can see the future... I don’t know.

The fact that he died in 1920 made me think of something I had never really thought about before: My initial reaction, as horrible as it is, was to think “well, that was a waste. He took up space on a lifeboat and only lived 8 more years. Plenty of people could have been given space that would have lived 30-40 more…

This is timely because I am getting REALLY sick of the amount of laundry that I have been doing and it is becoming apparent that I own far, far, far too many pieces of clothing. It’s my own fault. But I would rather have 14 quality pieces that I can rotate and mix-and-match than the current mess where I run out of…

I always think that Anne Hathaway is one of the celebrities I would actually want to be friends with.

I handle this and unzipped flies the same way: I always ask “would you want me to tell you if your fly were down?” or “would you want me to tell you if you had something in your teeth?”

Regarding text messages this is what I want: I want to be able to assign all of my contacts a rating (G, PG-13, R, X works fine but whatever) and I want my phone to have the same level of contextual understanding that Gmail has had for years when reading my email and targeting ads at me so that when I’m about to send…

I think this honestly is going to be an awesome feature for traveling. I already think Instagram is one of the best tools for planning a trip and have found a lot of awesome restaurants and locations because of it, so the ability to organize and save them instead of just thinking “that’s an awesome ice cream shop,…

That’s like hearing about your kid getting pregnant and say “lesson here: don’t let your kids have sex.” Maybe the real lesson is to have a meaningful dialogue and to make sure that children are educated on how to be safe, instead of just being told “don’t do it and you’ll be fine.”

If all our military is already a factor of five better than anyone else in the world, then I don’t really see the need to further increase our military spending. In fact, it seems that we could decrease quite a bit while still holding more than a competitive edge. Of course, make that pitch to him and Trump will come…

And that’s awesome, if I want to always have a phone or laptop or tablet in the kitchen with me. And it’s fine if Paprika functions as-is and for free for the next 60 years and that’s fine if I don’t want to be able to write quick hand-written annotations. But I’m skeptical that it will be and do all those things. At…

Here’s what I wish: I wish I were able to give out student loans because, over the past 10 years, I would have really appreciated earning the 6.5% or whatever on my investment that I have been paying to my student loans. Like damn, I’ll give you a $10,000 student loan with a 10-year repayment for 5%. (Note: This is…