I mean, woot and all. But still. Fucking bigots.

Sixty point five fucking percent.

My Cuban classmate, on why he hasn't spent the $1000 to become a US citizen (and hence be able to vote):
"My mom was saving up money to either get us citizenship or get liposuction. She went with the liposuction."

Does anybody know anything about this phrase know from, which is used to mean know about? For example, I now sometimes hear (or, more often, read) someone say something like, "I don't know from basketball," or "He doesn't know from science" when they mean, "I don't know about basketball," or "He doesn't know about science." (Have I already posted ( Read more... )

I bought lamb shanks today. I've never made lamb before, so I'm feeling quite adventurous. I do love Greek restaurants. Let's hope this turns out well.

We had a linguistics-themed Halloween party on Sunday. (Yes, neeerrrrrrd.) I wore patterned clothing and attached root vegetables to myself to be root and pattern morphology. (It's actually a way cooler phenomenon than that link would indicate; I just can't find a better link.)
We carved pumpkins. Mine has a Wug on one side and says "Wug." ( Read more... )

Okay, so in this breakdown of US household incomes, we learn that the median household income in the US is around $50,000, and a household income of at least $100k puts you in the top 19.26% of households. I think it's fair to say that the top fifth of earners would be rich. If you have to make $250,000 to be rich, then only the top 1.5% of ( Read more... )

Not to belabor the point, but this came up in my Hungarian class today. Somebody referred to a family making $250,000 as middle class. I objected that $250k = very rich. One other person in my class thought that would make you upper middle class, and one other person agreed with me and said you could buy anything you wanted with $250k. (Well, I ( Read more... )

I bought my wedding dress today!

But it's interesting to learn just how much of a waste the money we send to the TSA is/