I’m in a govt employee union. We have never been offered 110% of what we asked for up front. I think you just made that up or used a specific isolated incident and are now acting as if it represents the norm.

Are you really unaware of the things people will do in order to have sex?

Which is why Theo should get paid. You don’t get to steal someones ideas simply because it would be radical

Former dumb-ass white boy here, now a slightly less dumb-ass white man.

So like the Grand Marquis in the US

Sounds like a reasonable response. Use that word, catch some hands (or slams)

same here

All that “economic anxiety” was fabricated by the GOP to begin with. The Obama recovery was chugging along quite nicely. Sure it wasn’t like the heady days of the 90's, but rather a more sustainable level of growth that could be maintained over the long term. But that wasn’t good enough for people who came of age…

Which in turn will make some form of universal health care more and more attractive to a growing segment of the population. So at least there's that. 

Expecting people to make the most rational and well thought out decisions while a cop is pointing a gun and screaming at them is silly.

Cops use the “I feared for my life” excuse for shooting people on a regular basis. Too bad they don’t see how that logic applies to the person they are threatening with a gun.

You don’t have to tell them anything. Do you really think the cashier even cares?

Surprise silly, I’m 44 and I grew up poor. I produced my first kid when I was in high school and went to work to pay child support instead of following my dream to play football in college (which know what I know now about TBI was probably for the best). I was shut out of many opportunities in life because of of…

Just because that’s the way it has been doesn’t mean that the only way it can be. Things won’t change unless people decide to change it. Some of us actually do want to work towards a more fair and equitable world. Crazy, I know.

Perhaps the reason that you have never met one is because when a person with a family finds out about the salary they give up on what might have been their dream to work in government and do something that they think might have made an actual difference.

You don’t see how making these jobs feasible for people who don’t have wealthy parents to subsidize their living expenses would make Congress function any better. Right now it’s an echo chamber of mostly wealthy people surrounded by staffers who also mostly come from wealthy families. I can easily see how allowing…

Seems like there might be a loophole. While the University isn’t allowed to take down a Confederate monument, it could be argued there is nothing in the law that requires the university to replace a monument that was taken down by someone else. Even if it was unauthorized.

I mean, budgets are tight and replacing a…

Curious as to why the Registrar was there if this is a private dorm and not part of the school.

I don’t think Acela passes through queens. It uses the North-East Corridor which are the most congested rails in the nation.

TThey didn’t know that when they began the chase.

I know a cop that tried to be a shining light of integrity in a town that is known to have racist cops (Clark, NJ). They forced him out.