As parents, we all want what is best for our kids. For Tracy Lewis of Washington, DC, that meant selling Girl Scout cookies at her job as a retail service manager for Bon Appetit, which provides various food services on the American University's campus.

It seems like no big deal, right? Selling some inexpensive cookies to people who are under no obligation to buy them seems harmless. Or does it? First of all, a rule is a rule. If she wasn't allowed to sell food, it was probably for a good reason. She works in food service and maybe there were contractual obligations her employer needs to meet and she was violating them.

But moreover, it's never as simple as saying that buying was voluntary. Of course it is. But if someone tells you their kid is selling cookies, who DOESN'T feel obligated to buy?

Sniff! I love hearing stories like this, and they usually pop up right when I’m starting to feel particularly grim about humanity (or airlines!). In order to make sure a man got to his dying mom’s side in time to say goodbye, United Airlines did something that usually makes us all mad but, this time, was a really good deed: they delayed an entire flight.

Kerry Drake’s mom had been ill for years with rheumatoid arthritis, and had been especially ill for a few months. When Drake got the phone call that she had taken a sudden turn for the worse, he immediately booked a flight on United from San Francisco to Lubbock, Texas, where his mom lay dying in the hospital. He only had 40 minutes to make a connection in Houston; otherwise, he’d miss the last flight to Lubbock (surely there’s a country song in there somewhere).

Talk about penny wise and pound foolish. A woman was arrested in Florida after pulling a gun on workers in a Walmart -- because they wouldn't honor her one-dollar coupon. I know extreme couponers get nutty, but this is ridiculous. It reportedly all started when 61-year-old Walmart shopper Mary Frances Alday tried to use the one-dollar off coupon that she'd downloaded online. As anyone who has ever shopped knows, these store coupons can be a hair-pullingly frustrating endeavor. But Alday didn't pull her hair -- she reportedly pulled a gun.

Banning plastic bags from grocery stores in recent years seems to be the hot new trend for progressive enclaves like Los Angeles and Seattle that, you know, care about the environment. Because apparently using plastic bags to carry your food purchases home is the equivalent of clubbing baby seals. Or something.

Anyway, we’ve known for a while that reusable grocery bags can make you ill (it seems that not everyone knows you’re supposed to wash them after carrying your raw chicken home in them), but now a new unintended consequence has come up -- shoplifting.

Since news broke that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has banned telecommuting for its employees, the uproar has been dominated almost entirely by one voice: the moms. How dare Mayer, a mother of a small baby, cut working moms off at the knees like this, we've asked. Over. And over. And over again.

It's a valid argument, but Moms, as much as you're going to hate hearing this, it's not the one that we need to be making against the shortsightedness of companies like Yahoo that would think to cut work at home options. Marissa Mayer's new plan isn't just bad for the parents on staff. It's bad for the American economy.

That's the message we need to be screaming at the tops of our lungs.

If you've never had a bad boss, count yourself lucky. Most of us have had to deal with some serious creeps over the years. Twyla DeVito just got fired by one. The bartender called the cops on a drunk who was climbing in his car to drive off into the night, and her boss decided to can her for it.

Yeah, you read that right. A bartender was fired for protecting average citizens from a drunk driver. How does that happen, you ask?

A Michigan hospital is facing a lawsuit filed by one of its own nurses today in what sounds like a troubling cases of racism compounded by ineptitude. Tonya Battle says the father of a patient in the neonatal intensive care unit demanded "no black nurses" treat his baby at the Hurley Medical Center. Sick?

It gets worse. Battle's lawsuit alleges the facility took the racist man's side.

The State of the Union Address 2013 was on tonight, but if you missed it, have no fear -- I’m here to recap it for you. It can be hard to keep everything the president says straight, especially when he says things that directly contradict with other things he’s said or done in the past. So just for fun, let’s take some of his best lines of the night and match them up against his record, shall we?

There were too many shady statements to mention them all here or I’d bore you as silly as if you had actually watched the speech. For the sake of brevity, let’s just go over the top 13 things he said that made me snicker, guffaw, or face-palm.