Australia offers up ‘best job’: lounge in paradise Position: Island caretaker. Duties: Lazing around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for six months. Jan. 13, 2009 44 Entertainment & Arts Would-be bride, 107, seeks first husband A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry...
seemed like it might be coherent enough to give me a better idea of what is happening to Bob, but hilariously, even though they are both self-published books on occult topics written by white men with a ballpark similarity in appearance, they are not the same person. I will setMessages f...
I read to him from Telnaes’sfarewell-to the-Postdispatch: “As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job.” And from historian Timothy Snyder’s bookOn Tyranny, which Ime...
For a word that’s been around since 1631, it sure has done a good job of escaping understanding. But by consulting another dictionary, one might finally understand what all the hype is about. Dictionary.com defines fiduciary this way: “a person to whom property or power is e...
Putnam, a yachtsman, asked the naval architectural firm of Sparkman & Stephens to design the hull. Roderick Stephens, known, with his older brother Olin, for winning the 1937 America’s Cup, took on the job. He came up with a welded hull that fit snugly under the chassis of a standard...
There’s a life-cycle to Brussels journalists: 15 years of slave labour, and then, hmmm, look at this person, babe town, then, oh shite, KIDS! COMMISSION PRESS JOB NOW! Aaaand things are much better. We have purchased proper light fixtures from Bolia. Speaking of babies, Irish baby sh...
“I had just recently gotten a job at city hall, as a civil servant underneath the tutelage of one Noah Mason. His illustrious history was one thing that attracted me to the job. He was planning on taking me and a few other boys out to here for the festival, but it seems destiny ha...
Another fun game might be something like “pronoun warrior/superhero” where you or the trans person tell the kid their pronouns and it is the “pronoun hero’s” job to make sure everyone use the right ones. They are allowed to step in and say something like “BAM! Use -insert pronoun...
one needs to be a very good writer because otherwise the readers will be tempted to say, “Shitty parents, stranger touched me, drugs during college, terrible job, why am I reading this when I can clearly write my own memoir because everyone in the benighted Generation X more or less live...
Look, our job as parents is to prepare our kids for the real world. In the real world, there are consequences. You, as the parent, are responsible for the consequence, not the behavior. Is It ODD or Conduct Disorder?You may be reading this and thinking, “Yeah, but even fail-proof...