Shitty unions exist, just as shitty governments exist. And for similar reasons. I’m sorry yours let you down. And I know that while it is illegal to fire an employee for becoming disabled, it’s a hard case for the employee to make.

A good union will negotiate a better company policy. Contracts can cover anything and everything about your working conditions, if your union can back is demand up with a strike or if management is willing to trade your right to recycle cans or receive gift cards for something else.

The union contract is part of “company policy,” and it can cover a lot more than just wages. And yes, it is possible to fire a unionized worker for cause, but you'd better believe the process isn't this arbitrary.

...and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why unions were invented.

Yes, I do sometimes have a hard time finding music written from a woman’s perspective, performed and produced by women...oh wait, Mr. Iovine, is that not what you meant?

Great boots, made in America by people earning decent wages.

I have some sympathy for Amy. If my movie had made $110M, I would expect people who worked in my health club to know who I fucking was.

“Swervin’ in my Lane,” by Robert Earl Keen. Seriously country, seriously funny, seriously true: “...You’re just too dim to know, that when you’re swervin’ on life’s highway, you’re running someone off the road.”

In Rhode Island, where Anthony Bourdain spent his youth, telling someone he looks like the result “if Ed Hardy fucked a juggalo” is a conversational love-tap. If people aren’t insulting you, they don’t like you.

Looks as if the article has been updated.

$780 a month? Indefinite alcohol ban? Tested on men? There is nothing about this story that doesn't make me smack my forehead.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen counter staff count money with their gloves on, then go right back to preparing food. No, dude — money is about as sanitary as a baby’s diaper.

Your way makes more sense, sadly.

Hi, Chrissie: Your thighs look like...thighs. Enjoy.

I have read kids’ books that are MORE racist than Pippi in the South Seas, but it is a colonialist fantasy of a white guy (SPOILER: Pippi’s dad) automatically becoming king of the brown people who are happy happy happy to have him. The original book isn't problematic and is hella girl positive, so I just wouldn't…

It's populated by the children of the people who founded 4chan.

Housing costs in the San Francisco Bay Area are staggering. Like, $3,800/month for a two bedroom apartment. I suspect that has more to do with the kids living at home than the high cost of weddings.

Well, you know Prince probably has a lot to be penitential about.

I’m sorry, but purple was our thang before teh gays and Tinky Winky took it over.

As an Anglican, I'm pretty fucking angry it isn't purple. Let's put Christ back into the Advent penitential season, people.