Show me one old person capable of working that kind of technology. Most of them can’t even send a text message, let alone trigger a squib.

I grew up in a very boring, very safe Massachusetts town. The one thing every teenager in the region knew about our cops was that they were terrible because they were bored (the height of excitement was someone caught shoplifting at the mall). If you were 16-17 behind the wheel of a car, you were getting pulled over…

Yeah, those 8 things struck me as not much more than asking the cops to behave better. You’re not going to get much result out of a list like that if you still let them dress up in full combat gear and play soldier in our streets. It’s like, you can put up a sign in the gym telling people to wipe down the equipment…

Most elected positions on the local level don’t pay a good full-time salary. Far from it. People who serve on school boards aren’t relying on the pay as their primary income. They seek office to serve their community, to forward their own agenda, and/or as a stepping stone to higher office. There is no perfect…

The mayor and a police union rep should be on the board, but they should be offset by representatives from the community who are focused solely on the issue of police oversight and accountability. It’s too important to be part of someone’s multitasking.

I sold about 20 boxes to an LCS for next to nothing when I moved from Massachusetts. Sold another dozen or so to another LCS in NH for slightly better money. To be fair, most of my collection was widely available DC/Marvel from the 90s and 00s, the kind of stuff that you can find in $0.50 bins everywhere. I still have…

Exactly. Stop expecting him to change. He’s not going to. It’s like the Rock’s “powerful message” from the other day where kept asking “Where are you?” to an unspoken president. Misplaced effort. There is nothing that will ever be said to Trump that will make him a better person. He’s rotten. The only hope is to vote…

1. Better cops - Improved screening for mental health and behavioral issues, review of past affiliations (white supremacist groups, for example), and an end to favoritism given to ex-military that automatically moves them to the top of the list.

Would you really want his mouth anywhere near your dick? Double wrap, my friend. Double wrap.

I collected print comics from 1989 to 2011. After lugging a few dozen long boxes from Massachusetts to New Jersey to Maine, I finally realized that I‘m a “reader” not a “collector,” divested of most of my collection, and switched to digital. Much easier on the back.

Now how about rethinking pricing and distribution of digital comics? It’s not 1992 anymore. The direct market shouldn’t have a strangle hold on your business model.

Negotiating bathroom breaks is the best, isn’t it? I was once told it would be ok to bill a client two minutes for a piss break. The unspoken suggestion was that a shit would take too long, so I should make sure to take care of that before I came in or after I left for the day. Good times.

Well, I’ve recently been made a manager at my current job, which is the second best job I’ve ever had (first was teaching college, but it wasn’t financially sustainable). My primary motivation is to be better to the people I manage than some of the other bosses I’ve had were to me. Also, if I can use my position to get…

Both places had one other thing in common: poor management. Managers with no interpersonal skills and no vision running a completely fucked operation with unrealistic goals and no human consideration, guided by nothing but a policy handbook and a number they expect you to hit. Both places managed through Performance…

The first was a call center for a major test prep company. The other was document editing at a government consulting firm. Both were insanely high-volume environments that used metrics to leverage employees against each other. The type of place that says “We expect you to hit X billable hours in a year” and when you…

Go back and read what I wrote. I specifically said “many white people.”

I once met a guy who claimed to be a Springsteen fan but who “hated it when Bruce gets political.” I was like “You’re not really a lyrics guy, are you?”

I’ve had two jobs that tracked every minute of my time. They were the two worst jobs I’ve had and both lead to significant stress and psychological breakdown and both are the only times I’ve been fired. The jobs I’ve had where I’m not tracked, the quality of my work and feedback on performance reviews have been…

I say leave the Confederacy homeless. And treat it as well as we treat any other homeless in this country.

You’d think a company that owns the global beer market could scrape together more than the equivalent of $40k a year for what is essentially a 24-hour/7-days a week job. Works out to be ~$4.63 an hour. I mean, how much free beer are we talking? And can I resell any of it?