Ain’t that the truth. It really only takes one really bad experience with your private insurer to be ready to blow the whole system up. In our case, it was

But of course it’s considered unacceptably elitist for a liberal to suggest that people voted for Trump because they are dumb.

A related, mild annoyance is when you get waited on by multiple people. Sometimes one person asks if you want drinks, then another takes your real order. Sometimes the second person still starts off where the first person did.

Do we think that nobody in that room or the media team didn’t notice that he got the name wrong?

But as a straight dude, I cannot for the life of me think of an example where any sort of policy or act has given me the slightest bad-faith reason to scream about oppression

What was good about the way they handled the technical breakdown is that they didn’t make Warren verbalize that she couldn’t hear the question, which would have made her look bad. The network took ownership and stopped the madness.

No, wait, I’d like to change my comment, if I may. This kind of knee-jerk immaturity serves no one. And obviously it’s more like Chuck Wad, am I not right.

More like Chunk Turd amirite.

hildog? seriously a halfway decent president? seriously?

I mean, you could literally say that about anything bad Trump does, couldn’t you.

White supremacists by their world view lack empathy, remorse, and they see those they hate as less then nothing. Yet he wants leniency.

It’s fairly common in New York, especially if the place does small plates or has a prix fixe option.

Had to go to a classical music concert in Boston and didn’t know the area.  It was the middle of winter with three feet of snow piled up everywhere, so roving about was pretty much out of the question. The only thing open late within sight of the hotel was a Cheesecake Factory, and the wait for a table was an hour and…

I mean, pop music has always been terrible, you can find offensively dumb hit songs from every year in the history of the record biz.

This is supposed to be the big contract where they do something to narrow the gap between adjuncts and full-timers. They made a lot of noise about “$7K or strike” for a while (meaning that they intended to double the minimum pay per course.)

he sounds like one of those guys who doesn’t wear socks

I teach college, and I’ve started giving trigger warnings about material that is perhaps unexpectedly dark. (One piece I teach in my intro class features suicide, another sexual assault.) I mention it orally at the end of class on, say, a Tuesday, and then we watch the thing on Thursday.

Hm, if these third-party delivery guys are so numerous and constantly present, wouldn’t it make sense to just have their own delivery guy? Is there some GrubHub rule that (in the suburbs) you CAN’T use your own guy?

The war for clicks debases us all, there can be no winners.

Yeah, looking at the vid it does look like she is the one who fucked up. They haven’t really started to turn yet and she is pointed into his path.