Yeah. The other bullshit take is that signing the contract is “voluntary.” It isn’t voluntary if the only way she can do her job (playing tennis at the highest level) is to sign what is almost certainly a contract whose terms are non-negotiable.

At my old apartment there was no air conditioning and so my bedroom window pretty much had to be open at night in the summer. For one summer there were some really annoying upstairs neighbors who had people over most nights and the parties would break up at about 4 in the morning. There was very little detectable…

Probably, but I'm sure he thought not doing so would prevent retaliation. He didn't know that the prick was so corrupt that even presenting the bill was enough that revenge would be taken.

It was an insurance payout. They'll be paying higher insurance rates, but the city didn't lose $1.7M.

... General!

No doubt on the international students. I worked briefly at Johns Hopkins Hospital and they, for obvious reasons, served a lot of international patients. The ones who came with money were treated like royalty (and sometimes were) because they were paying huge amounts of money. One person grumbled about it until I…

Then I told my best friend Scott about it and he said, "Daaaaamn, that's a hella great deal!"

And on top of that, feeding six people, let alone eight, for $100 is very reasonable.

Exactly. It’s people who can’t handle the cognitive dissonance of believing that cops are incredibly dangerous, especially to non-white people, while still enjoying this week’s very special episode of The Rookie. Since they have to watch anything starring Castle, they also have to believe in the essential goodness of…

Does this shit-sipping bastard cop really think his actions would have been justified if they’d pulled over the right black man? For reportedly having a gun? Something that is absolutely legal in [white] America?

Lawsuits are required to be self-serving. That's exactly what the legal term "standing" means.

Given that he'll get delays every time he stiffs a lawyer who then quits, the case will never go to trial.

On the subject of Carl’s Jr, I gotta say that in the days of peace before the chicken sandwich wars I had their “big chicken sandwich” and thought it was really great. It was a huge slab of chicken breast that was perfectly coated and fried, juicy AF. Honestly, I can imagine them simply taking that sandwich, adding a…

The fact that the mother defended the teacher is depressing. While she shouldn’t be put into a position of identifying racism in a school, for her kids’ sake she should have the ability to do so and the courage to speak that truth.

Exactly! I haven’t seen anyone articulate a sensible reason for this rule. Softball/baseball are not full-contact sports where hair can potentially be a problem, so the only reason for the rule seems to be controlling the appearance of [black] players.

True, but apparently he got multiple texts about illegal activity out to fellow officers (not to mention years of a scam that should have been easily detected by supervisors) before anything happened.

As long as we keep honoring a slave owner on one side, I guess it’s acceptable to have an accomplished black woman on the other.

Changing the police from the inside has always been a fucking pipe dream. The police culture is completely broken. We need a nationwide 10-year plan to replace every police officer, starting with training officers who will have a new curriculum deemphasizing militaristic tactics and emphasizing nonviolent conflict…

The point of the rule is punishing black people for being black, full stop.

I suspect that to be the worst in this particular context a white dude would say some malignant shit about Leslie Jones.