I’m an veteran elected union official and I regrettably have to agree with this.  Behavior like this is generally not addressed in collective bargaining agreements and even a well-meaning union rep is unlikely to be a maximally effective advocate.  Get a damn lawyer, end of story.

Thanks for putting this out there. By some perverse coincidence, today is the one year anniversary of my cousin’s suicide after being “accused of a crime.” In actuality, he was the victim of a sick, cruel “prank.” (Ironically, we’re pretty sure it was a cop who did it, but that’s a whole different thing.)

I clearly have some sort of weird, Castlevania-specific form of PTSD, because despite the fact that you explicitly describe what happens in the video and it’s in the video title itself, there were several moments in there where your friend did something and I reflexively winced and said, “Well, he’s fucked now.”

Jesus Christ, not SAVE. I fucking hate SAVE. Any result you get from that thing comes with an automatic asterisk, because USCIS’s IT infrastructure is so old, there is actually no truly centralized system for SAVE to poll from to get accurate immigration status data. Part of the problem is that, being an immigration…

Honest question: why do you say that Mueller gave him a pass? While the full extent of his findings are still being dragged into the light, I don’t think we can say that he didn’t conduct a thorough and complete investigation. I have no reason not to believe that he could not find conclusive proof of collusion. I…

If nothing else, the president of the AFL-CIO criticizing an employee for not making himself available for an interrogation by someone essentially acting as an agent of management without properly prepared representation and negotiated terms is SUCH an unbelievably bad fucking look. Did nobody read that letter before…

And maybe also don’t blow a 3-1 series lead? I mean, it was a questionable call, but there was so much choking going on there, I have a hard time digging deep into my pity reserve for Vegas here.

I still don't understand how Pope Thrower is an 11 seed. It's like the committee had a Cinderella picked out right from the start. 

Don’t want to oversell it, maybe? It’s also the lead in for a 21 movie money shot, which left me, an adult man in his mid-30s with degrees and a mortgage and shit, momentarily slackjawed followed by this weird combination of giddy and kind of wanting to cry?

Well, if nothing else I hope I’m in the minority watching this, because I’m pretty sure that “Avengers assemble” sequence is going to detonate the theater off a primed audience when it lands on opening night.

Yeah, but which two Indiana Jones movies? Because if it's Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, well, I might just be the newest Q follower. 

Who cares if the dog can ride in the car? The real question is, can the BEAR ride in the car? That's a buy/don't buy decision-maker right there.

This is fucking awful, but:

Unlikely. We like him more than most of the Bills roster at this point. 

My understanding was that the mailers were sent to a targeted group of likely GOP voters, though? If they were attempting to run a disinformation campaign, wouldn't they logically direct it at people they expected to, y'know, vote for the opposing candidate?

For what it’s worth, she’s also just a huge bitch in general, at least to people who she considers her social inferiors. “I’m married to a famous hockey player!” is also kind of her platform for, uh, life in general. She leans into it HARD when she thinks it’ll help her, and not in a nice way. Like, yes, I *do* know…

I was in the exact same situation. Sick day on Monday after I sprained my ankle doing yardwork over the weekend got me through Spidey and on to DQ. Embarrassment of gaming riches.

...sigh.

What would the House have to do with the SCOTUS nomination, though? I'm confused. 

Until I threatened to put her in a discount old folks home at the earliest opportunity if she didn’t stop, my mother made a point of telling the story of how fucking inconsolable I was at the end of that game to every girl I was dating the first time she met her. She thought it was adorable, but I got the dual thrill…