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Amid the protests that have shut down more than one New York bridge, we take time to celebrate our rizz, explain why the term “tipflation” won’t catch on, and invent an entirely new word. Also on tap:

* Word of the year

* What happens when the right to free speech clashes with your right to get to work?

* Philadelphia pro-Palestinian protest gets ugly

* Columbia School for Social Workers are not sending their best

* The ambient anger over tipping

* Europe brings tipping to the New World, leaves it behind like trash

* That time Nancy bribed the guy performing her daughters’ baptism

* The lameness of Hot Topic

* Nancy kneejerks! Sarah slut shames (but only because she loves sluts)!

* Is The Golden Bachelor sadistic?

* Has a man ever lied and told you he loved you?

* “Who’s the boss?! Who’s the boss?!”

* Buffaloes are sexy