sounds like the chef should be a co-owner or something like that. sorry, if you can’t afford to pay them a living wage, you have to let them earn a stake some other way. the owners surely aren’t required to draw a salary. do something similar for workers you can’t pay fairly.

a good man...in tradition with a family plan

bravo! i hope they were thinking “our punishment must err on the severe side, because the legal system erred on the lenient side”. they don’t have power over the legal system, but it just so happens they have some disciplinary authority of their own. yay!

we’re not bombing them to freedom hard enough.

Naomi Klein thinks not :(

and yet that’s the only way to beat them. it’s supremely worth understanding her mindset, for the purpose of defeating it. you’d rather Wish her away.

i’m passionate about this issue too, but i retain the ability to preach to those “outside the choir”. i bet i could convince Leslie what you say: that “rapist” doesn’t only mean a violent kidnapping stranger. could you? too many activists lose their ability to convince those who disagree with them. the best activists…

terminology is all mixed up here.

I remember being in 3rd grade (or so) during the Dukakis-Bush election. The teacher put a picture of both on a bulletin board. She thankfully gave no information (or spin) on either one, and made the class vote.

I could change his mind. could you? someone should CALMLY, QUIETLY, RESPECTFULLY tell him “Your words are powerful - and aren’t they an excellent description of what the victim suffered?”

either she’s still alive, or they discovered reanimation...

legalize weed

that graphic novel about “...what provokes a person to commit evil acts” must be high quality, now that we know he REALLY knew his subject matter. if he wasn’t a murderer, it would probably be another derivitive uninspired work of crap. but now he’s a murderer, the critics should give this book another look!

deny entry?!?! what if an innocent person is trying to find a safe hiding place!

if you want to fight, leave the old man alone and go at Chris Hedges. You say Carter doubled down. Hedges tripled down.

his personal life drama is an unfortunate distraction from his amazing progressive work as a congressman

the joke’s on them: all the spectators knew how the glasses got there. they were fully cognizant of, and admiring the layered brilliance of, this work of performance art.