It’s not that they can’t pay for tuition, its that they feel that they shouldn’t have to if there’s an easy (well easy for people with access to the lawyers/advisors to help put this scheme into motion) way not to.

This seems a lot worse than the college admissions scandal, which was, at its core, a crude and provable example of the myriad ways the wealthy are advantaged when it comes to getting their kids into college. I don’t have problems with rich kids getting merit scholarships (although I do have some problems with the many…

Then get a fucking ID scanner. If they really are that worried, they should have one anyways. In most states, your legal duty as a place that serves alcohol is to check and confirm that someone has a validly issued government ID. A legit and functioning ID scanner would typically meet that duty. 

Their initial act of trespassing and theft wouldn’t justify you damaging their property.

So pretty much she consumed his life force and is some kind of immortal energy vampire right? 

He did the right thing in resigning. Had he not, he would have been an albatross on the Democrats back every time he was even remotely tangential to a similar issue. The Kavanaugh hearings were already a farce, but can you imagine how much of a farce they would have been with Franken on Judiciary?

No it’s not. Unless you live in a state that has expanded the concept of “Due Process” (I’m not sure such a state exists, but I also don’t have time to look at all 50 state constitutions to confirm), your rights to “Due Process” are pretty much confined to the 5th and 14th amendments and any Supreme Court decisions…

Exactly. If it were just Tweeden, they would have rightfully written it off as a right-wing hit job. It unfortunately wasn’t just Tweeden and, while I don’t like Republicans weaponizing #MeToo for their own political ends while they are never going to do so in their own house, we should do the right thing. And yes, I…

I do this a lot but THIS. It’s possible to believe that the first and most prominent accuser was likely doing accusing bad faith because she was a right-wing troll, even if his behavior towards her despite this article is problematic AND to believe that the other women who subsequently came out who worked with Franken…

I guess, but its such an odd thing to see on your receipt that it’s probably more noticeable to the average diner than a small price hike on the menu, especially a corporate-owned chain restaurant, and especially one that is in the business of serving fish, which most people understand is more subject to volatile…

Yeah if you can’t pay your employees a livable wage you have no business calling yourself a “job creator.”

Yeah, it’s funny how the big corporate lobbyists use mom and pop small business as a shield to criticize the minimum wage, except its also not funny because it’s surprisingly effective. Even though these corporations have done more to hurt smaller businesses over time than any minimum wage hike could, it’s easy to…

The whole GOP response to Trump is unsurprising, but particularly fucking maddening. I love how they are all clutching their pearls when someone calls Donald Trump racist, but even in the same statements that they are lightly chastising him for going a wee bit too far, many of them are unapologetically and…

Dude, unless all of your seafood is being harvested right off the coast like a lot of shellfish or by boats that go out and bring back their haul on the same day, you are going to get much fresher fish if its flash frozen right when its caught on the boat. Some fishing boats go out for days before bringing their catch…

The trick with Red Lobster is to stay as basic as possible (aka fried shit which they do a decent rendition of). That said, the lobster there isn’t terrible (it’s kind of hard to screw it up) and is often a pretty decent deal.

It also had a pretty aggressive campaign, on the hopes that Eugene Levy could sneak into the relatively weak Best Actor in a Comedy category (not to say that those nominated are weak, but its rarely a very deep bench), even though it was campaigned across all categories. That mixed with its broadened exposure due to…

She was fantastic, but how can you forget Amy Adams in Sharp Objects? 

So what do you propose instead?

What’s really shocking is how far the goalposts have moved. Trump’s open and outlandish racism has allowed space for extreme dog-whistling to become more acceptable. Even most people trading in birtherism were rightly called out by many Republicans and Democrats for going too far (even if they never openly stated that…

I didn’t mean to suggest that either Peck or Pete was the “right” or “wrong” kind of gay. There is no such thing, they are both gay. If anything, the response to Peck’s article suggests that he is the “wrong” kind of gay, at least for the purposes of being published in something like The New Republic. I’m not saying…