I have to tell you, many police officers are good people, who do get decent (but not enough) training, and do want to protect and serve.

Too many are not, and are allowed to run roughshod with no checks and no punishment, and it tarnishes all the good ones. The fact that you’re surprised at the appropriate and calm…

I’ve been thinking about it, and I think that especially with sexual crimes against children, our minds cringe against believing it’s really happening. We want so much to believe it’s not true that we work REALLY hard to convince ourselves it isn’t. Because if it is, it’s awful and we have to deal with that.…

Get out, Blackmun. “Do what you have to do” is not acceptable guidance when you hear that there is a predator doctor in one of your organizations.

Teens are great! I have one! Very well-meaning, tries very hard, has rocks where his brains will eventually be. This is pretty standard.

The great thing about comment threads is that anyone can read and participate in them! And when someone’s making an ass of themselves, repeatedly, and flinging terms around, and making sweeping general statements that I disagree with pretty strongly, I will do so. But thanks for the suggestion.

She also needs to stop using “mansplaining” like that. I’m a fellow woman voter and a fellow politically active volunteer and this lady makes me want to slam my head into something hard, repeatedly. She’s one of those ones that gets held up by the opposition as an example of why they act the way they do.

Oh please. If there’s one area where women aren’t discounted, it’s the vote count. Politicians and parties are ACUTELY aware that women vote more than men, especially in the midterms, and nobody’s throwing anything away when it comes to those votes. Even the GOP is uneasily realizing that the number of women who (for…

I’ve got relatives in his district who mostly skew towards the more progressive side of things, and they absolutely adore him. I’ve read up on him since hearing about him from them, and I really like him a lot. He seems solid and genuine. I liked the speech and thought it was great, especially once he got over the…

I’m guessing every word of this is depressingly true. And the ones that don’t post here on Kinja are regulars over in the Washington Post comments, and they don’t even try to hide, because they love riling up the regular commenters and getting them frothing at the mouth and calling them “Boris” and all the rest. Even…

I’ll need a list of action items and the top five key takeaways. List out the value-adds for your group and compensating controls for your risks. Then send it out to the leads, cc the team and loop in all the stakeholders!

Dammit! When we have them in the office I escape the meetings as much as possible, and clearly, it shows.

I thought it was funny!

I did too, but mine was less succinct. Out of this whole disgusting mess, THAT is what actually pissed me off the most.

I think you just gave me a seizure.

I’ve never heard that one, thank god. I work with consultants often enough, so I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.

I have a hard stop at three, so we’ll need to put a pin in that and come back to it.

Oh honey, no. Do NOT yank out the “I was mocked online which happens to everyone when they write personally, especially women” line when you’re getting rightfully and righteously dragged for absolutely egregious and un-disclosed paid promotion in your soul-baring and adjectivally excessive masturbatory exercise for…

They are so incredibly full of SHIT.

Yeah, no. Not at all. Not wanting to do a scene with someone who had been involved in a historically less-careful-about-disease and condom use part of the industry is not at ALL comparable to homophobia OR racism. She has clear boundaries. She has never been unclear about them. She simply maintained them in this case.…

Burn. It. All. Down.