I totally remember reading that "open letter" a while ago and thinking "oh, good for you - you're *such* a good person." Because that's all it is - "look at me and how good I am, and loving and accepting." Narcissism, narcissism, narcissism.

It's pretty great - I still go through the trouble of filling out the sections on my student loan payments, charity donations, etc... and it always recommends the standard return for me. <shrug> I'll take it! The worst year was when I was laid off, got unemployment for about a month & a half, then got hired by a new…

I think it would be slightly more equivalent to our touchiness about the Holocaust. Could you imagine a blogger encouraging a Holocaust diet? It's making light of people - ordinary civilians - suffering. So the US is pretty touchy when it comes to that, and I'd argue that we don't criticize the US entering WWII, ever…

We're a small but thoughtful and considerate club :) I bet alien invasions are considered an "act of God" and not covered. Seriously, do these cities/countries ever truly recover?

Delayed response, but you can definitely report those profiles to Twitter. I'm not sure how the response rate is for personal identity fraud - I reported it for my company once (someone created a profile with my company's name, but it was clearly a bot), and they removed it within 24 hours.

Right?!?! They're just local businessmen and women trying to make a living. Now if the stands were run by Verizon & their boxes of cell phones went flying, maybe I'd be less sympathetic...

People just don't ask strangers to take their photos anymore. I'm not sure if we're missing out or not...

I know it doesn't mean a lot... but I'm sending an internet hug your way. For you and your sons.

Amen. I actually get itchy watching disaster/superhero movies, when property gets destroyed. Like in car chases, when they crash into/drive over random cars, I can't help but think "I hope that poor schlob's insurance covers that." Or when whole buildings are getting destroyed, who is paying for that destruction, huh?…

That is such a good point. All white people who aren't vehemently, constantly speaking out against this behavior are part of the problem. Our Twitter feeds should be a comment every 10-15 minutes decrying these white kids and repudiating their actions. We're just not condemning them enough.

Yeah I know, but I haven't plugged into iTunes in... a year maybe? My personal laptop is decrepit and iTunes runs slow and with major bugs on it, and I don't want to use my work one. First world, lazy problems, I know.

... except I need at least 1.4 GB of storage free to install it. So ironically, another update that's just going to sit in my notifications.

Oh yeah, it's like a disaster zone, post-tornado/hurricane... that was then abandoned for years to rats and addicts.

I picture them trying to crawl through ducts Mission: Impossible style. It's the only thing that makes this photo remotely un-vomit-y.

I'm assuming they carried their skis with them the whole weekend, vertically...

Let's not diminish the efforts of white cultural leaders admonishing us youngin's to dress ourselves better, to earn the respect of the community.

Um... depression *can* be directly related. Not everyone with depression loses weight, as you yourself mentioned in your parentheses. It manifests differently in different people/circumstances, and the fact that you personally associate depression with weight loss doesn't negate actual science. Here are quotes from…

"10 minutes" to get a car did seem too generous - I think the author had an NYC/cab mindset. Any airport where you have to take a shuttle to the rental car (or your own car, if you've parked in a lot not right next door) is going to add on significant travel time.

No, they didn't. According to the Philly train schedule, if you get in at 8 am, you can catch a train between 8:09-8:13 am depending on the terminal. If you get in at 12:15 pm (one of the other times they picked), trains leave between 12:39-12:43 pm. I calculated the average - using 529's chosen arrival times, &…

Google maps - they calculated using your maximum wait time for a bus/train. I don't know about Seattle/Portland, but Philly's number is way off as a result.