I don’t like this vote either, but what are the realistic chances that Trump’s alternate candidate for CIA director would be any better? His last pick, Pompeo, is a homophobic war hawk who is also comfortable with torture. Tom Cotton, the rumored alternate candidate, is an even more horrifying possibility. Warner has…

I hear both. The Yanny is obviously the high end, but there’s a “Laurel” on the low. All this proves is that anyone who hears Laurel only is officially an old.

OK, but this is a plotline straight out of Orange is the New Black, right?

Most restaurants don’t even bother with the signature these days, not that they offered much protection. I never pay a restaurant with a debit card, on the off-chance that the server or someone else in the place is skimming cards.

Them: “The all-digital future will be great! No one needs physical media anymore! Get with the program, olds!”

Me: “You won’t own a damn thing you purchase (not that we did with physical media either; dem EULAs), and eventually, companies will start selling your childhood back to you via subscription services.”

Them:…

I’m currently knee deep in my PhD and have been trying to find purpose in a pretty narcissistic, lonely career path that requires an unbelievable amount of self-promotion and networking while also producing excellent research and working hard. I originally looked to self care and wellness to try and lift myself up,…

I find this fascinating, but she completely loses me on smoking. (She talked about this in more detail in Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/barbara-ehrenreich-says-smoking-bans-are-a-war-on-the-working-class.html) My dad started smoking as a working-class teenager. He died a torturous death at 55 of…

Yep. As a WaPo oped said last year, whenever the Clintons have been faced with an ethical dilemma, they took the money.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk, and Ben Carson each embody the problems of having only a science background with no wider knowledge of the liberal arts as well as the fallacy of being smart in one thing gives your opinion and views weight in all topics.

And that’s exactly what this is about. People are subtly attributing Facebook’s privacy breaches to Mark Zuckerberg’s youth, relative inexperience, and supposed social ineptitude - as if Facebook was not a company that employs thousands of people with different levels of experience and specialty areas (including a…

I also hear people feeling sad about the precarious condition of Sears and JC Penny, and some who still mourn the loss of Monkey Ward (and I will admit looking forward to the Christmas catalogs when I was a little kid), but most people don’t think about how many small-town local general stores the Big Catalogs put out…

We have a workrule - DEMANDED BY MANAGEMENT - That requires any box over 25 lbs be lifted by a designated laborer with:

THIS is a reasonable argument. About fucking time.

If he was brought back after mediation, that means the company jumped the gun and fucked up.

I’ve been part of a Union negotiating team for three contract cycles, and a dues-paying member for 15 years.

Some U2 fans will probably do the first three tracks off The Joshua Tree (Streets, I Still Haven’t Found..., With or Without You). I’ll change it up and say Even Better Than the Real Thing, One and Until the End of the World from Achtung Baby.

Remember how Blockbuster was so conservative they wouldn’t even stock The Last Temptation of Christ? And the rumors that major movie studios would screen films for Blockbuster representatives before they were even released and cut out anything that Blockbuster thought was too offensive? Yeah, I’m not weeping over…

I’m not a... what’s that word... fragile snowflake?

He doesn’t understand the difference beteeen the capital L and lower case l in liberalism. The ideology matters, not the name the party gives itself. This is where idiots reveal themselves, usually jumping over themselves to try and say Nazis were leftists because *derp* socialist party.

That’s just how unions are structured, United Auto Workers organize nurses and university employees.