One good thing that this bill would do is that, going forward, it ties the minimum wage to median wages. So while it doesn’t do anything to change the fact that $15 is going to be less whenever this is hypothetically passed than it is now, it will eliminate (or at least help address) that issue going forward.

Your comment makes it sound like you believe nothing is changing until 2025. I’m just giving a little more context about how it actually works for anybody who’s curious, because Splinter gave none. No need to get rude over it.

It would be a gradual roll-out by year, which is pretty normal whenever they raise the minimum wage by more than a little bit at a time. It allows employers to slowly adapt to the new trend rather than, say, panicking and firing half their workers because they have to suddenly pay twice as much in wages.

This law, if enacted, would tie minimum wage to median workers’ pay. It also gets rid of employers’ ability to pay tipped employees, teenagers, and people with disabilities wages below the minimum.

Nothing wrong with liking ridiculous spectacle! I just have a hard time understanding how Cats’ particular brand of ridiculous spectacle translates from stage to screen. It’s all oriented toward live theater.

I mean, personally I don’t think the punishment’s going to be worse, mostly because . . . the Democrats are pretty much running up against the limits of their practical power here. You don’t have a ton of options when you control .5 of 3 branches of government, and most of what you do have is for show, not any actual…

This isn’t a “Nancy Pelosi is playing 3D chess” argument. There’s no grand master plan here. It’s just basic political messaging.

Yeah, I have no issues with Pelosi criticism in general—I think she’s quite a bit better at her job than the left generally acknowledges, but she still fucks up plenty, and nothing makes her exempt from criticism when she does. But I just want that criticism to come from somebody who . . . displays the barest minimum…

Allegedly, he’s focused on the electoral college—he believes that winning the presidential election will come down to whether or not he manages to turn out the same bigots in Rust Belt states that handed him an electoral college win the first time. He could be right, I don’t know. But it’s also a strategy that hurt…

I mean . . . yeah, she should be embarrassed about that. Dowd baited her into answering a dumb question that she shouldn’t have answered.

If you actually listened to the statements made by Dems . . . they weren’t particularly watered down. (Here’s Swalwell, for example, clearly reiterating the many ways Trump has been racist, and clearly calling it out for what it is.) Pelosi’s framing them as watered-down now is a gambit: she’s painting the Democrats…

If his racism hasn’t turned you off yet, nothing will turn you off.

I don’t think the writers here need to like Pelosi by any means, but I wish they would at least make a basic attempt to understand what she’s trying to do. What she was doing here is Congressional strategy 101; if you’re going to report on politics, then you at least need to understand why it was happening.

The goal here wasn’t to placate Republicans. It was to get them on record as refusing to condemn Trump’s racism, then run attack ads on it in the suburban swing districts in 2020 to pick off moderate Republicans and (hopefully) hold the swing seats they currently do. Trump’s racism plays great in solidly red areas,…

The choice to make it into a movie is bizarre. It has no plot! Its main appeal as a piece of theatre is its sheer spectacle—and seeing grown-ass adults act like cats for a couple hours—and I don’t see how either of those things translate to film.

This is going to be a disaster, and I’m so ready for it. (Except for the part where it threatens to derail my attraction to, and deep respect for, Idris Elba.)

It also draws a bunch of media attention to Pelosi just as she a) keeps a story that’s (debatably) not great for Trump going for another day or two, b) gives the Democrats a chance to look united after a fractious week (note they all voted down the motion to strike her comments), and c) makes a very public show of…

If you’ll check the examples in Matt Fuller’s tweet, it absolutely hasn’t been the first time during Trump’s presidency this rule’s come up. (More delightfully, another of the included examples suggests that somebody quoted Kanye’s “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” on the House floor back in 2005.)

Honestly, both are a problem, which is why the show has been a target from psychologists/psychiatrists from the beginning. It traffics in a lot of unhealthy tropes—like the idea that people will be sorry when you’re gone—that suicidal people tend to idealize. But the scene in question is especially bad for kids…

I’ve seen most of them, although I haven’t felt anything more than “mild enjoyment” for any of them. But a) like with Avatar, they feel like something you “have” to see in order to form an opinion on them, b) they do invoke fond feelings for most of the originals while watching them, and c) it’s always fun to sit…