Breaking News: Mike Milbury is an asshole.

Does the Cracker Institue for Fuckshit pay you every time you use the phrase “praise her work”, an obtuse framing that suits your own purpose (which you think is to righteously fight against the veneration of a pop star but is actually to disguise your disdain for a black woman doing objectively good/impressive…

Next year she should ask applicants to write about misogynoir, apparently.

Hahahahaha I wondered how the “All Beyonce does is shake her ass” crowd would find a way to hate on this.

Mother of god, that was a tough read.

From TNR:

Yea but as the author pointed out - This movie is sold as being about as an adaptation of the book which treats Skloot as a side character and the writing the book as a subplot to guide the narrative, but the movie shifted focus to the white writer and her ‘journey’. It’s just another example of taking main black…

Have you ever noticed that some people just seemed hard-wired to be stressed out?

Most companies do give 3-5 days of bereavement, but most companies also give vacation time, and some give personal time (in lieu of sick time). Who the fuck are we to judge a coworker who takes 3 weeks off for the loss of a loved one, and how petty do you have to be to think “did anyone audit her time card?”

And if…

All women who have children pay this professional cost. That is another reason why what you did was awesome. Someone has to be the trailblazer.

That is insensitive. “3 weeks is pushing it”? Shall we quantify grief and put a specific limit on how long kurizmatik’s coworker gets to deal with the tragic and untimely loss of a sibling? Do you get to take longer if it’s a child or a spouse than a sibling? How about a cousin? What’s the amount of time that’s not…

Michael Felger is a jackass. Most of the time, I let his jackassery slide, because who the hell really cares about his opinions, but this particular bit of poorly thought out bile has stuck with me since I heard it.

yeah they’re the worst. it’s essentially harmless (i don’t see them as being that different from entertainment writers), but they have a certain self-righteousness that is pretty ridiculous. they actually think what they do matters.

Had a coworker throw a shit fit that another coworker took 3 weeks off when her younger sister died unexpectedly. His defense was, well when my Grandfather died at age 91 on a Thursday I was back to work on Monday. Pissed me right off. People grieve in different ways. His grandfather was 91, lived a full life and he…

It’s the same mindset that causes idiots to voluntarily not use their vacation days because they have such a better work ethic than you, bro.

I dispute his claim about turning the best double plays over the last 11 years.

Capitalism really does a number on some people.

I took 3 months of unpaid paternity leave when my son was born in 2007, and it was probably the most important 3 months of my life.

... because they want to get people with that raw, unformed raping talent and mold it into the Indiana model?

As soon as Kadyrov tried to claim the reason these reports are false because no gay people exist in Chechnya it became obvious that this is absolutely real, that statement was basically a confession. There is no reasonable doubt here.