Good Idea: Paid telecommuting options should be expanded for new parents (particularly women) so that employers cannot use an experience differential to justify a pay gap.

Is it impossible to be successful if you have kids early in life? No. And she’s not saying that. The reality is that it’s just much, much harder. I say that as someone who had kids early.

Pleeeease? We’re really not any worse than L.A., we’re just surrounded by racist, gun toting hicks.

You’re not kidding. Frank Luntz (a devotee of Clotaire Rapaille and Republican strategist) advised candidates in 2006 on how to use language to win the elections. Here’s a little sample:

I cannot star that comment enough. (And then there are the flags. The people who hate the U.S. government and want to drown it in their bathtubs seem to really love American flags.)

I read that as he released banana peels to usurp the fed and before I clicked was like “how many banana peels has he been hoarding for this bold moment” and also like “well shit that might actually work. Who would want to walk out when likely to pratfall by a banana peel, then maybe laugh, then maybe again with…

Let in Puerto Rico as a replacement, and we don’t even have to update the flag.

Please keep Houston, we’re shitty, but not that shitty, plus I know you still want all that cool NASA stuff. We could even bring Austin with us. And no need to bring the crazy exburbs.

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight here! This is the War Room!”

Wait, that's not legal already?

Let all the empty states tell all the states with tons of people what to do, because states’ rights and freedom.

Man, I want that here. All I’d have to do is convince 2/3s of the province that murder is good, and there we go. The people who operate those duct-cleaning vans that hurt my ears would be going doooooown. And the parcel guy that doesn't even ring the bell. And everybody that doesn't clean the snow off their cars. And…

Well, for some people irony and climate change are schemes for liberals to exploit all of that sweet, sweet research money.

That’s state government. State goverment is perfectly fine, a noble profession. It’s only the federal gov that’s vile and corrupt and wants to rob us of our guns, i mean jobs, i mean bodily fluids or whatever we’re pissed about this week.

Yeah, I grew up in Texas and he was AG when I was going to college in Austin. I don’t recall him going bananas till he ran for governor though. Maybe I didn’t pay enough attention to his AG politics.

The Governor mimics his younger self during civics class.

tbf he’s been there for a year and was the state AG for ages.

I HATE THE GOVERNMENT AND EVERYTHING IT STANDS FOR AND I’MMA OVERTHROW IT. Career choice: Governor (??)

Motherfucker I just moved from Louisiana where Bobby Jindal was raining ruination and conservative fuckery down on everything, and now I’ve got to deal with this Jade Helm tin foil behatted jackass?

Thank you. Almost nobody brings up the lack of representation of Bears at the Academy awards. Did you know that, as it stands, there have been over 1700 acting nominations in the history of the awards and only 23 have gone to Bears(Meryl Streep, Claude Rains).