When I was born, my father stopped drinking and my mother started drinking. No one ever told me why.

The only whining I hear about transportation are the poor techies who have commute 30 minutes from San Francisco in their car. Cry me a river!

My last car died from a blown head gasket three days before I got my layoff notice. I was out of work for eight months and took out a bank loan to pay the rent while starting a new job. You want to chip in for getting me a car?

Probably doesn't help that getting to and from work is a two-hour bus trip each way. I'm pretty sitting for 12 hours straight. I started taking 15-minute walks during my breaks and lunch to loosen up my back muscles.

I must be doing something wrong if the only thing I'm abusing is the ice pack on my sore back from sitting in front of a computer all day long.

For every Capitalist CEO who gets fired for incompetence, there are dozens of entrenched Capitalist CEOs who deserve to be shot.

According to legend at one Fortune 500 company I worked at in Silicon Valley, a data center administrator ran an Internet Service Provider (ISP) when dial-up was still king by using the spare server and bandwidth capacity. This gig went on for a number of years until someone in the corporate office noticed that the data center was far more active than it should have been and ordered an audit. The administrator skipped town and retired to Mexico as a millionaire before the audit got completed. Not wishing to draw public attention to this oversight, the ISP went away and the data center got a new administrator.

According to a recent study, there's no connection between a CEO's performance and pay. The last Fortune 500 company I worked for laid me off along with 10% of the workforce so the CEO could give himself a 66% raise for having a lousy fiscal year from selling fewer techie widgets than expected. Neither the board nor Wall Street punished him for his mismanagement. He bought another vacation home to keep up with all the other CEO Jones.

That's not Capitalism, that's Marxism.

I just started a job at a hospital. The fastest route to the hospital in the morning is a two-hour bus trip (four connections). Not being a major tech employer, its the last stop for the buses and shuttles after winding through all the nearby tech companies. The fastest route home in the afternoon is a one-hour trip via two buses, a commuter train and a light rail train. Taking the train is an extra five bucks per day that I'm not sure if I want to do on a regular basis.

Not much difference between a Marxist CEO and a Capitalist CEO when it comes to perks. CEO's are more equal than the rest of humanity.

A four-hour drive by car (359.5 km), according to Google. I'm curious to know if taking a plane is more energy efficient than a car or train.

Paperwork in triplicate is the only thing that counts in government.

The presidential debate would be less insane if civics and debate were required courses. Most Americans are clueless to how the government is supposed to work, and aren't capable of disecting a serious argument to separate the lies from the truth. Political pundits have reduced the presidential debates to another form of entertainment for the masses who want to be told to think because forming, analyzing and defending their own opinion hard work.

You don't seriously expect people to read beyond the article title before jumping into the comments?

If the signal wasn't scrambled, all those naked blue-colored girls I saw on a TV as a teenager may actually be naked blue-colored girls... from SPACE!