As a 36 year old who had been married one year(ish) and divorced pretty quickly, I don’t believe this is a “millennial problem”. I would say that the access to information and the availability and avenues presented to make both marriage and divorce “easier” has contributed. This along with the mentality of certain… Read more

This hurts my brain SO MUCH. Forget mentioning that a lot of young people (myself included) feel rushed into marriage as one of the only ways to get student loans, good health insurance or other things! Oh, people in the 70s got to go to college cheap, get married and move right into nice houses and good jobs with… Read more

Teleportation is the best, but in order to work, it has to come with a few extra super-powers. It doesn’t work on its own. Read more

And I’ll entertain arguments that being able to freeze time would come in handy, but I’m concerned overuse would cause you to age appreciably faster than friends and family. Read more

This is a compelling argument. And, I’m inclined to agree if we’re talking about which power provides the most utility. Read more

i would never report to my job on the bridge. i would just hang out at the holodeck ALL THE TIME. i never understood why there wasn’t a line or sign-in sheet for the holodeck. i would imagine it would have a line longer than a Times Square Starbucks restroom in December. Read more

When I think about having a superpower, part of the calculus is always, “How am I going to get rich from this?” Read more

Every time I’m hungover and waiting to get on a flight, teleportation is a cruel thought that crosses my mind. Nothing worse than lines, TSA and bumpy turbulence with the grogginess, anxiety and nausea of a hangover. Read more

Foodspin got me into cooking good things, so every week I try to think of a new multi-hour cooking project to do during the day on the weekend. What should I cook this week?
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Pro Peep Tip: Open up the box, leave them exposed for a day or so and they get a little stale, which is somehow 10x better. Read more

Yes. Read more

I stayed quiet on your terrible butter crock opinion, but I can’t hold my tongue anymore.
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I was going to suggest jumbling all the letters up and making an anagram, but that didn’t yield a whole lot of potential goodness when I chucked it into the internet anagram server. Read more

When we were talking about it, I said to my now-wife “if you, for ANY REASON AT ALL, want to keep your last name, you should keep it. If you don’t feel any kind of way about it, then, all other things being equal, I would like it if you took mine. BUT IF YOU FOR ANY REASON AT ALL WANT TO KEEP YOURS, you should do it.”… Read more

In Japan (and possibly other Asian cultures) the tradition is for the more prominent family name to be taken. So if I am a male and I marry a woman who's father runs a local business I will most likely take her family name. An additional fun nugget, in Japan women are traditionally in charge of a family's finances and… Read more

At least you’re thinking about the implications. I didn’t change mine out of pure laziness (I was older so didn’t want the hassle of changing everything). My kids took the hubby’s name because it is 4 letters. Read more

When my cousin was dating her Indian boyfriend we realized just how Jewish her last name was. We thought about portmanteaus: Hirschwall or Aggerberg. No matter how you slice it, Hirschberg makes a name sound Jewish. Read more

I have a co-worker who’s mother was a She Smith who married a He Smith, and my coworker married another Smith herself. Despite my petitioning her to go by She Smith-Smith Smith, she did not.
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