Their rubric for creating your almighty credit score doesn’t make any sense. They're supposed to assess your risk of defaulting on loans, then penalize when you successfully pay off a loan. They’re supposed to assess your ability to properly manage your money, then penalize you for not having enough debt.

Living within your means apparently makes you a liability.

Our president has a great capacity for not giving a shit. He doesn’t give a shit about you. He doesn’t give a shit what you think.

The thing I realized through the emergence of Nashville Strong is that we’re not special. Neither are the people in Boston or anywhere else where that tagline becomes used after a tragedy. I realize this sounds callous. It sounds like I’m being a contrarian and an asshole and picking on people that are going through a terrible ordeal.

But I’m not.

This is actually a good thing.

Homeownership is a lot of work. This is no surprise. I knew that as soon as I finished signing that towering pile of papers that every small problem would be my responsibility. I just never figured one of those problems would be a dog from the trailer park shitting in my front lawn.

A word that gets repeated too many times loses its meaning. Say tree nonstop for five minutes. You’ll start to feel like you’re having a stroke. And whenever these buzzwords catch on in the cultural zeitgeist, they’re repeated until they lose all their flavor.