I get the history here, I get why Italians are sensitive about this. Back before Italians were “white”, Christopher Columbus was not the national figure he has become. Italian-Americans lionized a two-dimensional caricature of him in their struggle for representation in the origin myth of America. Just like many…

A little early for this, but it’s the bit by Brown I remember best:

“The township’s loitering statute says there are areas of the township where loitering is prohibited. In those areas, the statute says “officers can question anyone they believe is loitering and ask them to leave.””

Their management has been a complete and utter disaster. Some of the best writers leave immediately, kinja is broken beyond repair, and they nix the only politics vertical in a constitutional crisis without notice or comment. Cool.

I see Hamno is already doing freelance work for The Guardian:

No, burying money gives a 0% return. 1.69% may be less than inflation, but it is still greater than 0. 

OK, so you want a quick way to make the type of thin taqueria salsa you would have with homemade chips right before eating an ungodly number of Al Pastor tacos.

a guy at work told me how awesomely funny shane gillis is and that he never ever misses one of his podcasts.  this is how i knew shane gillis was garbage.

My favorite is Green Mountain Gringo Salsa but I’m guessing that was out of the price range?

These taste tests with just your husband and your kids seem... uh... less than definitive.

Uh, that wasn’t Seth Simons that Che went after. That was another guy with a similar sounding first name. Close, though.

This is a good theme song because it names all of the characters and conveys the show’s theme. 

Who decides what something is supposed to be? The only correct answer is, the law. And there is nothing in the law that defines a “side-hustle”.

Also, people who are fundamentally ignorant of how to actually calculate the value of their work. When you add up stuff like 0.58 USD per mile driven, the cost of unemployment insurance, the cost of paid sick days, the cost of employment taxes, the cost of medical insurance, and everything else that you pay yourself…

Any job, part-time, full-time, side hustle or not, should payout to minimum wage or above.

Exactly. Just like game developers, journalists, grad students, etc... companies can keep on treating human beings like crap just because there are always a dozen other people waiting.

Literally the only people who claim this is supposed to be a “side-hustle” are Uber, Lyft and their defenders because that distinction is important to them labeling their employees as independent contractors. The vast majority of drivers on these apps are absolutely working full-time.

I think part of the reason Uber and Lyft are able to keep soldiering on is that there’s a seemingly inexhaustible supply of hard-up folks that are willing to give it a try, often in spite of the horror stories they’ve heard.  You’ve got to think that that supply of labor will dry up sooner than later. 

I honestly think people have nearly forgotten what the world was like before ~2015. Yes, George Bush is a bad man who did terrible things and caused the unnecessary deaths of many thousands of people. He was also in power during a vastly different time in world history, when trust in institutions was significantly…

I really want to ask THESE SPECIFIC TWITTER USERS a single question about Tony Blair.