I don’t know, I was not a fan of having a rare name as a little kid, so I went by a more standard nickname. But I was over any angst about it by my teens and now as an adult I actually quite like it. To be fair my name was a family one so it’s not like my parents just picked something completely random. I think as…

Had they never met a Luke/Lucas? It’s got the same “giver of light” meaning with less satanic implications.

Haha, glad my stereotype holds up! If I have to own a car and can’t get to most international destinations on a direct flight, it’s not a city as far as I’m concerned.

Probably because that fact doesn’t necessarily absolve Walmart of responsibility and even maybe implies they mismanaged his schedule. Why exactly did he have to drive 12 hours for his next job? Is it because Walmart sent him to point B on his prior job and then didn’t schedule enough time in between to get to point A…

Nothing wrong with liking a mid-sized city at all! As long as your honest about your preferences. And not comparing the general cost of living to bigger cities. ;)

Did he perchance live in the Minneapolis area? I live in Chicago and have gone to Minneapolis for work a couple times. So many people in Minneapolis are way too into Minneapolis, when it’s really just a large town for people who don’t really enjoy cities.*

First rule of reading the WSJ - never read the opinions/editorials. Michael Saltsman is the “research” direct of Employment Policy Institute. Which just so happens to be a conservative employment “research” non-profit. I’m putting “research” in scare-quotes because somehow the EPI’s conclusions rarely coincide with…

Maybe you just don’t pay attention? Or maybe I’m just more aware because I live in Chicago and he’s still a big deal, but I know off the top of my head that Jordan’s donated a substantial amount of money to the Boys & Girls Club of America, the NAACP, the Special Olympics, the Institute for Community Police Relations,…

Welp, I was not aware of that incident. Fair enough, I will happily join you on #teamnobody.

It’s definitely bad behavior, but unless it’s a persistent behavior, I’m more inclined to view retaliation dickery as a momentary lapse in judgement and less as some sort of indicator of a deep character flaw. If there were similar stories about Hamm saying this type of shit to non-terrible people, I’d read more…

I’d 100% agree with you if he said that to someone who wasn’t Kathy Griffin. But considering how obnoxious, boundary-crossing, and up-her-own-ass she is, I’m feeling pretty comfortable assuming it was more retaliation dickery than out-of-the-blue dickery. I’ve definitely experience the urge to say some extremely petty…

I volunteer with a tutoring program for lower-income students in my neighborhood. We do “life skills” modules with the student and “what is your dad/mom’s name” and “how do you spell his/her name” are both part of that curriculum until 2nd grade. Based on my experience with that it’s about a 50/50 split whether the…

Pretty sure he let his passport expire while abroad, which can be a big bureaucratic mess.

No, it’s really not. Compassion is not related to acceptance or forgiveness. For example, I have a very small amount of compassion for Trump related to his most likely shitty childhood and his brother’s alcoholism-related death. Because those are objectively terrible things to experience. That doesn’t mean I think…

Most asshole behavior really doesn’t get labeled as mental illness. A cycle of sudden sharp increases in assholish behavior plus evidence of delusions is going to get labeled as a mental illness because it’s symptomatic. Yes, sometimes people armchair diagnose standard shitty behavior as a mental illness or even use…

Is it really adding stigma to a mental illness if his behavior is a textbook symptom? Aggressive behavior, poor impulse control and delusions are really not uncommon symptoms during manic episodes. Also, it’s kind of shitty to imply that he doesn’t deserve sympathy just because he has access to resources. First,…

This seems like a weird “hot take”, since there’s pretty much no evidence that he’ll be able to pull that off. I guess he could take credit for the trend of increasing jobs numbers that started under the Obama administration. But that presupposes that he doesn’t try to fiddle with the current domestic economic…

Well, they indicate that he’s had some depressive episodes. But yeah those aren’t proof of any specific disorder outside depression.

He raps about going off lexapro in Life of Pablo, which was released earlier this year. Not that verses should be taken 100% as factual, but he has a tendancy to be fairly autobiographical with his lyrics. So, some type of mood disorder is not a bad guess.

I had forgotten that that article was why I finally canceled my subscription. What a mess.