And at higher levels, a huge part of the jobs of deans/presidents/etc. is fundraising - because big grants equals a jump in profile and prestige, even if they don’t actually always help the aspects of the university most concerned with students (finaid, teaching positions, etc.)

When cheap labor is used, when lower level employees have their pay and benefits reduced or are laid off, when unions are broken, the budget relief only moves up to elevator. Prices aren’t lowered. The customer never sees the benefit. Management just gives themselves raises. It’s a transfer of wealth from the workers…

That’s the downside of public companies, they have different customers. A private company creates value by offering a service or product to a customer who gives them money. A public company creates value by offering value to investors who give them money.

Boomers say millenials need trophies to feel adequate, when it was the boomers that created job titles to accomplish the same thing.

Countepoint: Middle managers exist to apologize for your shit when you do your job to the specs you were given, not to the specs as they existed in senior management’s mind.

“Abolish the NRA.”

“Secretary Clinton: Can you explain and provide your solution to the crisis of gun violence in America? Please use 10 words or less.”

“Eat, shit, Apple: my life as a Gizmodo writer”

Bummer for all the people that use square & the headphone jack.

Great. Now I’m crying in a McDonald’s. And it's not for any of the usual reasons.

I say this every time, but the picture that broke the scandal wasn’t just a little harmless sexting. He sent an unsolicited dick pic to a college student who tweeted him to talk about politics and who was none too happy to find herself thrust into the national spotlight because Weiner turned out to be a sleaze.

Or, maybe monogamy just isn’t for some people, but our rigid social structures and expectations, especially for public figures, and even moreso for politicians, don’t allow people the leeway to explore their sexuality in healthy ways.

(Not saying they’re the best, but they’re very, very good.)

The World Doesn’t Give Fuck One About My Feelings - a novel by me.

The real question is, “What kind of stuff will I be able to deface and destroy in the staging room before the match starts?”

Zarya is probably be the only Russian athlete in the Olympics then.

1. Boat Building Simulator 2016

I don’t agree with this image. Anonymity doesn’t turn good people bad, it gives bad people freedom from social consequences.