Several writers have already called out the article “If You Have Savings In Your 20s, You’re Doing Something Wrong” from Elite Daily for offering really stupid financial advice to young people. Since I like to pile on, I’m going to add my own criticisms.

The writer’s main point seems to be that your 20s are a time for running around and having ( Read more... )

Oh God, we watched the worst, most boring movie the other weekend: Under the Skin. It got good reviews but a lot of viewers sounded divided on it and I was firmly in the camp that the movie was no good. It starred Scarlett Johansson as an alien who drove around in a van picking up men, bringing them home and killing them, possibly as some sort of ( Read more... )

“Someone Like You” by Adele. When this song came out, I kept reading all these articles written in the tone of America’s Spokesperson with headlines like “Why Adele Makes Us Cry” and I didn’t get it. This song does not make me feel sad, just annoyed and a little creeped out. Adele shows up at her ex’s home to tell him that for her, it isn’t over. ( Read more... )

Did you read about those winners who wrote an online essay for Vox about voluntarily living life as if they were in the Victorian era? They write with fountain pens under the light of an oil lamp. She wears corsets and he wears wool workout clothes. They ride those huge unicycles around town.

These people sound insufferable and I am so glad I do ( Read more... )

I dreamed I had some work to do at our house in Elsmere to get it ready for rental. So I walked to the house, which is usually a 15- or 20-minute drive. I realized I didn’t bring any clear trash bags so I could dispose of the yard waste after weeding, so I stole some from some kind of work site. It also started snowing so I was looking around for a ( Read more... )

I don’t know if the movie version of Civil War will follow the comic version as I don’t know what everyone will be fighting over. The miniseries from 2006 basically concerned the conflict over whether people with superpowers should register with the government ( Read more... )

I don’t think Kim Davis should go to jail for refusing to grant marriage licenses to anyone in Kentucky as a protest against gay marriage because that would be basically handing her a set of nails and two pieces of wood and directing her to the nearest hillside. I do think she should be impeached or however we would treat an elected official who ( Read more... )

You go back to the office with such good intentions. Vacation recharged you fully so you say you’re going to buckle down. No perusing any websites for you. For now, at least, it will be edit, edit, edit. You’ll be in good shape and on top of everything ( Read more... )

This summer, I am that little kid who will only go inside if his parents call his name down the block and all the streetlights come on and he has exhausted his last appeal ( Read more... )

They sure did. It was 1978 and the Avengers had just defeated the nigh-omnipotent Korvac, using just about every member they ever had, with help from Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and the old Guardians of the Galaxy team. Government liaison Henry Peter Gyrich, legendary for being unyielding, argued it was too hard for the feds to keep track of dozens ( Read more... )