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The sad thing is that I don't want Target to be doomed. I used to love that store. However, it feels like they have entered the flailure spiral. Lose money. Cut quality. Lose more money because no one wants crummy stuff. Cut more. Leave your remaining fans disappointed. Cry about your collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The sad thing is that I don't want Target to be doomed. I used to love that store. However, it feels like they have entered the flailure spiral. Lose money. Cut quality. Lose more money because no one wants crummy stuff. Cut more. Leave your remaining fans disappointed. Cry about your collapse.
The sad thing for me is that I can ally with strangers but never my own family. My family members broke the rules. Family comes first. Always. They were so in love with the orange man, that they decided he should come first. Once you break faith like that, there's no coming back again.
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The sad thing for me is that I can ally with strangers but never my own family. My family members broke the rules. Family comes first. Always. They were so in love with the orange man, that they decided he should come first. Once you break faith like that, there's no coming back again.
When people on the Left ask how they can be allies with people who "hate" them, my answer is that I don't take an interest in the contents of my ally's brain. It is sufficient that we agree on one goal and are willing to work together to reach it. Once that goal is reached, we're done.
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When people on the Left ask how they can be allies with people who "hate" them, my answer is that I don't take an interest in the contents of my ally's brain. It is sufficient that we agree on one goal and are willing to work together to reach it. Once that goal is reached, we're done.
Every time I hear Trump speak, I am reminded of a friend who passed away after a struggle with early onset Alzheimers. The last time I spoke to them was about 2 years after diagnosis and we had a surreal conversation where they free associated. They were gone less than a year later.
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Every time I hear Trump speak, I am reminded of a friend who passed away after a struggle with early onset Alzheimers. The last time I spoke to them was about 2 years after diagnosis and we had a surreal conversation where they free associated. They were gone less than a year later.
My hot take is that based on my cousins’ defense of him… my grandfather was a controlling abuser and I am probably very lucky that my mom was smart enough to get away and lucky enough to be thousands of miles out of his reach thanks to my dad moving to California.
June 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My hot take is that based on my cousins’ defense of him… my grandfather was a controlling abuser and I am probably very lucky that my mom was smart enough to get away and lucky enough to be thousands of miles out of his reach thanks to my dad moving to California.
Get ready for classical singers to start trying to monetize telling students what they want to hear, making false promises and turning their students into their worst selves. This happens in every recession and I am seeing it happening now.
June 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Get ready for classical singers to start trying to monetize telling students what they want to hear, making false promises and turning their students into their worst selves. This happens in every recession and I am seeing it happening now.
I had been planning to dump Amazon Prime. Today, I did it. There's more money back into my bank account and less from Bezos. Sorry Amazon, maybe next time you will value your customers more than a man who wants to be a king.
April 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I had been planning to dump Amazon Prime. Today, I did it. There's more money back into my bank account and less from Bezos. Sorry Amazon, maybe next time you will value your customers more than a man who wants to be a king.
Who would have thought that the SpongeBob Musical would hit this hard? All are welcome in Bikini Bottom.
April 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Who would have thought that the SpongeBob Musical would hit this hard? All are welcome in Bikini Bottom.
Every year, my students want to pick songs for NATS Auditions that do not fit the category requirements. Then I try to explain the rules and I realize that my students are correct that this makes no sense at all.
April 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Every year, my students want to pick songs for NATS Auditions that do not fit the category requirements. Then I try to explain the rules and I realize that my students are correct that this makes no sense at all.
It is such a vibe that every public figure I ever said was awful has now turned out to be demonstrably awful- Musk, Newsom, too many influencers to even list. You just have to stop and put away your feelings. Don't feel. Think. Ask questions. They all show you who they are. When they do, believe it.
April 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It is such a vibe that every public figure I ever said was awful has now turned out to be demonstrably awful- Musk, Newsom, too many influencers to even list. You just have to stop and put away your feelings. Don't feel. Think. Ask questions. They all show you who they are. When they do, believe it.
Trump does not represent all Americans in the same way that Israel does not represent all Jewish people. People are not monoliths or stereotypes. If you meet someone who is 100% in agreement with any group, then you're talking to a cult member. Normal folks are more complicated than that.
April 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump does not represent all Americans in the same way that Israel does not represent all Jewish people. People are not monoliths or stereotypes. If you meet someone who is 100% in agreement with any group, then you're talking to a cult member. Normal folks are more complicated than that.
I just want everyone to know that I have officially won this year's giving things up competition. No Sephora, no Target and no Amazon for 40 days? Done. I win Lent.
April 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I just want everyone to know that I have officially won this year's giving things up competition. No Sephora, no Target and no Amazon for 40 days? Done. I win Lent.
So... I have books dating back to at least 2008, maybe earlier, detailing how luxury goods are made in China and other Asian countries then sent to Europe for finishing. Yes, all of them, at least for the past two decades or so. If you wanted to know, then you knew.
April 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So... I have books dating back to at least 2008, maybe earlier, detailing how luxury goods are made in China and other Asian countries then sent to Europe for finishing. Yes, all of them, at least for the past two decades or so. If you wanted to know, then you knew.
Loki at the doggie Easter cookie hunt. He was a very good boy and found three cookies, met lots of dogs and ate horse poo.
April 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Loki at the doggie Easter cookie hunt. He was a very good boy and found three cookies, met lots of dogs and ate horse poo.
My highest business expense is mileage. This is the case even when I have other large expenses. For any singer, I would strongly advise adding up potential expenses BEFORE negotiating a fee. More often than not, we end up underwater because the fee looks great... until you deduct expenses.
April 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
My highest business expense is mileage. This is the case even when I have other large expenses. For any singer, I would strongly advise adding up potential expenses BEFORE negotiating a fee. More often than not, we end up underwater because the fee looks great... until you deduct expenses.
The Gen X experience is growing up with the protections that the Greatest Generation fought for only to see it all ripped away in real time. Then everyone called us slackers when we were angry that the future we were promised no longer existed no matter how smart we were or how hard we worked.
April 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Gen X experience is growing up with the protections that the Greatest Generation fought for only to see it all ripped away in real time. Then everyone called us slackers when we were angry that the future we were promised no longer existed no matter how smart we were or how hard we worked.
I also strongly recommend that you ask yourself who is insisting that this is all 4D chess and why they might be making those claims. I see a lot of it coming from the same folks who follow people like Russell Brand- the left people who somehow went around the bend to the far right.
April 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I also strongly recommend that you ask yourself who is insisting that this is all 4D chess and why they might be making those claims. I see a lot of it coming from the same folks who follow people like Russell Brand- the left people who somehow went around the bend to the far right.
Folks, most rich people and those big tech companies run on speculation. Their wealth is all based on stock. They run on loans with stock as the collateral. A stock market drop and recession means they will also go down with the ship. This is not a master plan. This is incompetence.
April 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Folks, most rich people and those big tech companies run on speculation. Their wealth is all based on stock. They run on loans with stock as the collateral. A stock market drop and recession means they will also go down with the ship. This is not a master plan. This is incompetence.
I am sure that wealthy pundits in designer clothes telling people they should be okay with losing their retirement is going to work out great. It will be just like in 1789 when they said "Let them eat cake" and everyone thought that was great advice and not at all out of touch.
April 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I am sure that wealthy pundits in designer clothes telling people they should be okay with losing their retirement is going to work out great. It will be just like in 1789 when they said "Let them eat cake" and everyone thought that was great advice and not at all out of touch.
If you are an artist working in a state supported art form within a fascist regime, yes, you are a collaborator. Your job is to act as a propagandist- selling the regime as cultural and worthy. You do not get to profit through the suffering of others then cry about how people are mean about it.
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you are an artist working in a state supported art form within a fascist regime, yes, you are a collaborator. Your job is to act as a propagandist- selling the regime as cultural and worthy. You do not get to profit through the suffering of others then cry about how people are mean about it.
No one, not even the most clever rulers, can play 4D chess. The world does not work that way. There are too many variables. What we are seeing is not some genius plan with an end game. What we are seeing is exactly what happens when you put inexperienced and incompetent people in charge.
April 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
No one, not even the most clever rulers, can play 4D chess. The world does not work that way. There are too many variables. What we are seeing is not some genius plan with an end game. What we are seeing is exactly what happens when you put inexperienced and incompetent people in charge.
The whole vibe of the late 90s was this idea of money... someday. Spend as much as you want today because you'll make it all back plus profit tomorrow. So, everyone was willing to pay more for everything- homes, stocks, education... and if you will pay more, then they can charge more... and they did
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The whole vibe of the late 90s was this idea of money... someday. Spend as much as you want today because you'll make it all back plus profit tomorrow. So, everyone was willing to pay more for everything- homes, stocks, education... and if you will pay more, then they can charge more... and they did
So, we saved for college but our college costs were nowhere close to as insane as they are now. I do get why you would just say "Screw it" and then have the vacation and the new car because you're going into debt anyway. What's another $10K on top of the six figures you will have to pay?
March 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So, we saved for college but our college costs were nowhere close to as insane as they are now. I do get why you would just say "Screw it" and then have the vacation and the new car because you're going into debt anyway. What's another $10K on top of the six figures you will have to pay?
I knew some rich kids who had all the things- the summer vacation in Europe, the new car and all of that. Most of us, however, had crappy used cars or no car at all and it was all about paying for college. You expected to attend a state school and to spend as little as possible.
March 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I knew some rich kids who had all the things- the summer vacation in Europe, the new car and all of that. Most of us, however, had crappy used cars or no car at all and it was all about paying for college. You expected to attend a state school and to spend as little as possible.
AP tests were starting to be a thing when I was in high school but they were not required for getting into a college program. You took APs because it allowed you to avoid spending more money on a college class (note- AP exams suck) and to pursue the goal of graduating college early to save money.
March 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
AP tests were starting to be a thing when I was in high school but they were not required for getting into a college program. You took APs because it allowed you to avoid spending more money on a college class (note- AP exams suck) and to pursue the goal of graduating college early to save money.