This is awesome: troops can't have bacon in muslim countries so they want bacon salt!!. Operation Bacon Salt to the rescue! It cracks me up.

Bacon salt is ideal on hard boiled eggs for a quick breakfast. Many thanks to that unnamed buffista who gave it to me.

meara, you can mix a great tinted moisturizer with a few drops of foundation into your own regular moisturizer. It's cheaper and works better than commercially prepared, and you can adjust based on how much coverage you need.

When I need a tinted moisturizer, I use a small amount of mineral foundation mixed into my moisturizer, and it is perfect.

Any thoughts on rejuvinating my Dior Show, Plei?

Jesse:

What's the stat for whitey?

White females no high school diploma $18,100
white females w/ high school diploma $25,100
white females w/ college degree $37,500
white females w/ grad or professional degree $40,000

White males no high school diploma $25,400
white males w/ high school diploma $34,200
white males w/ college degree $46,900
white males w/ grad or professional degree $50,100

For contrast:

Black females no high school diploma $20,200
Black females w/ high school diploma $21,500
Black females w/ college degree $36,500
black females w/ grad or professional degree $39,000

Black males no high school diploma $24,200
Black males w/ high school diploma $24,800
Black males w/ college degree $38,800
Black males w/ grad or professional degree $40,800

Hispanic females no high school diploma $16,000
Hispanic females w/ high school diploma $23,100
Hispanic females w/ college degree $36,300
Hispanic females w/ grad or professional degree $38,200

Hispanic males no high school diploma $21,700
Hispanic males w/ high school diploma $24,800
Hispanic males w/ college degree $46,400
Hispanic males w/ grad or professional degree $49,400

ita,

How uninspiring! As well as the white man's numbers, I'd like to see how a college education plays into that. I mean, if the high school graduate numbers include college grads and the difference is still only $600, why go into all that debt?

Hell, though. Even more significant in my mind, if you don't plan on going to college, and you are a black male, why bother finishing high school at all for that extra $600 when you can drop out and have two more years of work.

The difference w/ a college degree is significant (as seen above)

I can see that. The job options for being only a high school grad are going to be pretty similar to somebody who drops out. Some kind of labor or retail position.

David, yes and no. As you can see, with other groups (especially hispanic females, but also white females and males) there is a big difference between a high school grad and not.

What made me laugh is that sample sizes for Asian males without a high school diploma are too small to allow reliable reporting.

I'm noting all of the makeup recs. I want to even out skin tone and minimize some scarring. What would I use? And why, oh why can I never find a color match?

I gotta say I'm pretty appalled at the male-female differences in a lot of theses. Women with advanced degrees make ten thousand dollars less than men with advanced degrees. Ouch.

... wait, unless you're a black male with an advanced degree. Who makes nine thousand dollars less than a hispanic male. WTF? How's that work?

'suela, I'm not sure.

If it makes anyone feel better, it's not whitey that makes the most.

Asian males no high school diploma NO DATA
Asian males w/ high school diploma $26,500
Asian males w/ college degree $51,300
Asian males w/ grad or professional degree $54,100

It must be the types of work these groups are also going into. I wish the College Board had statistics by major. For example, I would guess that math majors and engineering majors make significantly more than English majors. And I know many more male math/engineering types than female. So that could account for some of the gender (and ethnicity) differences.

eta The full study is here in the sidebar called Education Pays. (though it should be called Higher Education Pays.

Well, as a white female with a english lit and theatre degree, it seems to qualify you for being well-ish paid secretary or working in the arts. Although, my friends with math and engineering degrees are stay at home moms... I am not sure if the effects the average.