Jalopnik’s excellent Stef Schrader covered this story initially around 1:30 yesterday and it was cross posted to Splinter. I get the impression that Univision is trying to push Splinter as new Gawker and they may be trying to wind down the political stuff here on Jez.

Yes, that was the point, that the WSJ publishes harmful idiots on their opinion pages.

Another core piece to his argument I’ve heard is these protests are trying to change emotions. In the 60s they were changing laws. You cant change people’s emotions or you can but it’s difficult. As if any change is easy, once again it’s mental gymnastics to find any way to minimize dissent and protest. Another way to…

Exactly. I’ve been in various degrees of management in the industry for 14 years, and it’s not the first time this has happened. At the last restaurant I managed, corporate just jacked up the prices across the board by 50 cents, and barely anyone noticed. The Oceanaire isn’t exactly Dennys.

And why would an owner whine publicly on the receipt before the guest has a chance to tip his own employee better? Just shut the fuck up and be grateful no one notices happy hour prices going up 15 cents across the board to cover that rising tide, lifting all them boats. Stupid jerk.

Hey, it’s a proven scientific anecdote that if you give a poor working person more money they won’t spend it, they will just horde it or use it to invest in bitcoin. That’s the problem with poor people. They save all their money instead of giving it to rich people.

That was the issue raised-just quietly raise the prices but to pull this nonsense is bullshit.

I think you’re confusing “shyster” with “shylock”. While it is an insult, shyster is not a slur. Some people believe that it is derived from shylock, an antisemitic slur, but it is not.

I’m admittedly pretty ignorant about politics in Spain. Do they have a large anti-immigrant, islamophobic, nationalistic movement?

I mean, ISIS claims responsibility if someone trips so I’m not giving much weight to their claims just yet.

The only people with more experience with terrorism than those in Northern Ireland are the Spanish. Most of their experience comes at the hands of basque separatist groups though not Islamic extremists.

Why the pivot?

With the rampant fear of the Islamic State in the United States, it really is important to remember that far-right extremists have killed almost as many people in the US since 9/11 (more if you view the Pulse shooting as motivated by homophobia more than Islamic extremism) and domestic terrorism is homegrown:

Added Tinkle, “I was so scared I almost me’d in my pants.”

Was about to write the same thing. The news articles in WSJ are top shelf but they have for as long as I remember handed their Opini0n page over to the numbnuts and idiots. Jason Whitlock is simply another installment of this.

Ol’ bag Peggy!

Yeah, the purpose of the WSJ opinion page is basically to keep the most pernicious conservative myths alive by continually injecting them into the public sphere for anyone predisposed to believe them. You want a defense of trickle down economics? The WSJ has Grover Norquist on line one. Do you prefer your outright…

This is media corporate synergy. Rubert Murdoch/Fox own both Fox Sports and WSJ.

By the exacting standards of the Great Race Determiner Jason Whitlock, Kaepernick simply isn’t black enough.

I’d say it’s more jealousy because he thinks the afro is actually cotton candy.