Predatory capitalism and mutually destructive competition aren’t the only options.
Why do you people want to join a crowd?
I can’t believe he has kidney cancer that’s spread to his spine. 
Such a nice man. We haven’t known him long, but he’s one of those people you feel like you’ve known forever.
Warren Buffett, I’ve been keeping you on a pedestal since you entered my life in graduate school in the early 80s, but you are about to fall off of it tonight. Seriously, The Apprentice? You are better than that.
It’s official …my tongue has finally been bitten off
I am a man but I am frequently frustrated by how men tend to dismiss small important details…funny thing is my sister feels the same way about me.
If there’s a party to spoil, you’ll spoil it. I know I should feel sorry for your pain but that’s hard to do when you’re so determined to spread it around!
Why am I so afraid to leave this job I hate for a retirement we’ve planned for all our working lives? I must be crazy.
edit: bah. so frustrated with the bias
Thank you, CC, for putting up with my incessant round-the-clock babbling posts for the last few days…2 AM posts, 10 a,m posts, nit-picking posts, meta-talk posts, and stories-upon-stories. The truth is this: I have been numb all week. I have not felt like talking to anyone I personally know. I have not told anyone beyond DH and DD my news. CC has been a necessary diversion. Nine days ago my mother died. She was 90, had not been able to walk or talk or feed herself for more than a year (stroke), so in many ways it is the kindest thing for her. Still, the virus that took her came suddenly, during the big snow-storm in the South, and was a shock. . My mother (unlike me) found most of her joy in small, practical tasks. She always said she didn’t want to live past the age when she could be useful.
Safe journey dear Mama, wherever you are in the cosmos. I was to visit you next week, I’m so sorry I was late and the storm prevented me from getting to you in time last week. I know my sister was your angel and I’m so glad. I’m happy you left us peacefully, holding her hand, listening to your beloved choir music. I love you.
I feel like a day of reckoning is truly coming, where people are going to find out the cost of feeding into their gut emotions instead of thinking, so why do I still worry about them and the storm I think they are going to face?
You managed to do it again. Well, that will be the last time I explain myself about something you
already know but refuse to accept.
Dear son, your adviser missed your meeting , then said he’d come in, but never did. So frustrating. If you can’t finish the program, I really understand.
Why is it you’re the only client who consistently damages heavy duty AC/adapters on your notebook, spills softdrinks/coffee on your notebook, and then end up miffed when I break the bad news that you’ll be paying a lot to repair or to replace it?
And no…it’s not covered under manufacturer warranties because the damage was self-inflicted through personal carelessness.
Please, universe, let him get this job. It’s been so long since things have gone his way. And please let the ice melt soon in Portland so his other stuff can be taken care of.
Oh…It’s a good thing cursing is verboten on CC. I would be “weaving a tapestry of obscenities that that would still behanging in space over Lake Michigan…”
You…Blankety Blankety blank. Grrr
Is that your picture I see in the dictionary under “inconsiderate”?
Why do you have to lie?
Sigh
Thank you both for always taking the high ground in the face of the worst kind of prejudice, disrespect, and sheer unfounded nonsense. You made me proud.