“We made ehhhhhht” is playing in the background of my mind probably half the time.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought of this.

This doesn’t make sense to me. How was it road rage? He decided to throw beer bottles at them, and then beat Ms. Hassanen to death? Where did road rage come in: it wasn’t as though they were in another car.

“...told the NYT that he everyone seemed more mature and “had kind of a professional attitude” as they stepped onto the riverboat...”

The employer’s nuts IMO. The point of being in the office is to interact with coworkers and use the resources. Why make her be in the office when they’re not there?

I also think it’s important to emphasize Alina was recruited and hired under the premise that her work hours would be more “flexible” and that the office wasn’t being utilized by the owners regularly either. According to Alina, the push to use the office 9 to 5 was fairly recent and was not an outlined expectation.

I followed the whole story because I have worked with Cupcakes and Cashmere in the past and was curious. Basically, Alina was offered the job and was told that she could have flexible hours and locations. It’s pretty common when working on personal blogs. Then Emily decided that she was not ok with her not bring in…

She works for an Internet blog, not a brick-and-mortar blog.

You can always tell someone who has read these books. Everyone I know who has read them imagined how good Turkish Delight must be (regardless of what it actually tastes like). :)

It’s not about cash, dude.

She was saying how she doesn’t need to know more about the black experience to write about black work, since she wasn’t alive in Medieval Scotland or turn-of-the-last-century Russia and she understood MacBeth and Cherry Orchard just fine.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD “WACK” IS SPELLED “WACK” NOT “WHACK.” WTF VOGUE?!?! “Wack” is an adjective, “whack” is a verb. Ugh I’m so mad.

I am so tired of this idiotic “most violence affecting the black community comes from black community” non-argument from disingenuous racists. The vast majority of ALL violence is intra-racial; that statistic is utterly meaningless because it applies to virtually everyone, everywhere. Most violence affecting the white…

*reads article, sees list of pretty shitty/racist things said by critic*

YES.

This makes me so happy, I’ve always been Team Yoko. She was a prolific artist in her own right (the sfmoma showing of her work a while back was fantastic!) and The Beatles would have broken up anyway.

It’s not the color, it’s the name White Pride. There’s a very specific meaning to that, and it’s not a nice one. And people aren’t outraged, they’re just sorta amused and pointing out that this was a poor word choice.

There is no “toxic things women/men do”, just things people do and those things can be done by either gender for any number of reasons. It’s not helpful to define problems by gender since that doesn’t usually address the problem. The best way to deal with any problem in a relationship is to have a stable sense of self…

My ex husband is similar. Less drunk, but chock full of anger and resentment towards myself and our daughter. He even wants a chance at adopting his grand daughter, because “he didn’t have a chance to bring her up (my daughter) with morals and principles, and he wants a chance to show what sort of child he could…