There is no transgender ban, at least not yet. The chairman of the joints chief of staff said there would be no policy change until an official directive was sent out through the White House and the Department of Defense on how the policy would be enacted. That is Trump’s highest-ranking military officer telling him…

I get it. The mental gymnastics these people have to perform is incredible. Like one of the old white bosses said the other week about Trump: “He’s probably not an easy guy to work for, he expects high quality and high performance, and these idiots who kiss his ass probably aren’t used to doing work.” All the blame on…

Just rage to your friends, family, in the comments section on Jezebel... It’s wise for you to keep the politics out of work. All my bosses love Trump and praise him and think he’s some sort of savior (all old, white men, of course). But honestly...they’re good, compassionate people. Yes, it’s hard for me to believe…

I often find that sometimes a good facial expression is enough. Looking at him like “you are completely insane, no one thinks that” can actually be enough, and sometimes, backing it up with a simple “your position is indefensible” is often really functional. Cold, calm, and low in tone. I have also used “that position…

Thanks for the kind words. :)

That sounds reasonable. It sounds like he may have got the message from your reaction anyway.

It’s hard to know how to navigate this stuff at work. My last job (which fired me while on leave for chronic migraines) used to have monthly staff meetings. The second half was always updates on people’s personal lives. Annoying since I had work to do and DGAF about kids potty training. More than once this veered into…

10/10, would buy.

Truth.

Me too! Where you been all my Gawker life?

Yeah, and Bernie was some sort of political genius/saint/socialist God who was going to come down and save the Left, despite the fact he didn’t have appeal among many key demographics, like black voters, and he didn’t try to do much about it. or the fact that his record in congress is pretty unimpressive. Or the fact…

LW1: My advice would be to inflict pain when creepygramps does that until he learns to stop, but that’s just me.

I just want to say I am tired of how much shit this woman has gotten from the left too. I have an aquaitance and he LOVES LOVES to shit on her continously whenever we talk about politics. He has a complete inability to move on. He always brings up the election and losing was her fault and Bernie would have won and…

This needs to be the top comment.

Four sessions of acupuncture didn’t do anything for my lower back pain.

Interesting, things I hadn’t thought of. Thanks for sharing.

Laws would have to change, because no venue in the US is going to want the liability that comes with setting up a “drunk tank.”

There are good acupuncturists and some that are not so good. Before giving up, maybe try someone else. If you are in NYC, I highly recommend Ben Diamond. He helped me with excruciating pain when Vicodin did nothing.

I’m willing to bet it’s a liability issue - no venue wants to provide triage for a kid who ends up dying from alcohol poisoning.

Your post clears things up substantially. I thought that sounded like a disturbing number of people to have so intoxicated that they needed to be hospitalized. This country seems to send people who need mental help straight to prison and people who need a phone call home (at worst) to the hospital. Crazy.