Why would they bother when Trump is going to sink the whole country?

Well, duh.

My wife lost an inch, then had to have a vertebrae fused in her neck and she got the inch back.

Pissed off my daughter as she had just outgrown my wife, only for my wife to pass her and force her to do it again.

They measured my height the last few times I was in for a physical.

I think it’s because I’ve reached the age where they want to see if I’ve started to shrink.

The problems creep up when the market crash leads to businesses failing. Then you find yourself going from living paycheck to paycheck to not even having that lousy job.

There’s always room to fall. If there isn’t, someone will dig a hole for you to go into.

I’ve been lucky in my career, but I do worry about those who may not be as lucky.

60 minutes: “…this one goes up to 11.”

“Come on, officer, I couldn’t do that even if I was sober!”

It’s called “advertising”

It’s not a mansion that happens to be owned by the governor. It’s the Governor’s Mansion. It’s owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Governor's_Residence

Hey kiddo, it’s Dad.

I just want to say that you’ve got this! You’re so much stronger than you realize. You are so beautiful and special. Don’t think about the people who let you down. Some of them may come back to you, some may not, but that’s on them, not you.

I wish like hell I could make all the hurt go away, but it just isn’t possible. I want to be able to protect you from all the pain in the world and make everything safe for you. It’s my job and it’s terrible that I can’t do it. However, all I can do is remind you that you are loved and you will get through this.

Also, do what the other reply said and make sure you get updated vaccination records for your cat so you can take it with you. I can’t take in another animal right now.

I’d point out that taking responsibility for your actions doesn’t necessarily mean fixing them on your own.

It’s often more difficult (and more adult) to acknowledge that you’ve dug a hole for yourself that you can’t escape from on your own and ask for help.

Saying this as the parent of young adult children that are adulting well, but still need to ask for help. Also as the old adult child of my parents who must still force himself to ask them for help.

One big sign is when you stop demanding to be treated like an adult and just start being one.

Being an adult is just a decision you make one day.

Years ago my older brother was on the phone complaining to me because our mom found out he bought a motorcycle and was mad at him and my dad (who helped him pick it out).

He wanted to know why my mom thought she could treat him like a child.

I pointed out that when he decided to get a motorcycle and kept it secret from our mom, he was acting like a child and enabling her to treat him like one.

I have no interest in ever owning a motorcycle. However, if I ever did, it would never occur to me to keep it secret from anybody, because I’m an adult in charge of my own life. Everyone else can have opinions, but I get to decide whose opinions matter to me.

The usual MAGA approach: lie and tell people the problem doesn’t exist, while making the problem worse.

More like:

Lie and insist there’s a problem that in reality doesn’t exist, then implement a solution to the “problem”, which causes a real problem that didn’t exist before, but does now. Then you get to lie and tell people the problem you created doesn’t exist, while making the problem worse.

She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

She has the job because she’s on their side.

But my hate is a pure, well-reasoned hate. An all-consuming hate that doesn’t care about race or gender or socioeconomic background. It is a hate directed at assholes.

How do you expect me to stop hating MAGAs when I can’t even stop hating myself?

Great marketing if their goal was to make sure I remember them as a company to avoid.

Last night I saw a cybertruck with a company logo on it for MHX Designs.

Seems like a stunningly bad choice for marketing a company that has anything to do with designing anything.

Looks like they do home improvements, but I wouldn’t trust them to work on an outhouse if they thought the cybertruck was worth the purchase price.

Be careful being. Sometimes the pessimistic view is that you will grow old. Don’t be like me and plan for a massive coronary to end your suffering at age 50.

Turns out my family has disturbingly good genes, and there’s a chance I’m stuck for a long time yet.

There’s a nuclear power plant on the route between our house and our parents’ houses. When we were driving by it we told our kids that it was a cloud maker.

Technically not wrong.

I just bought a toaster oven for $99 + tax.

I don’t know how smart it is yet, because it’s only toasted once.