From everything I’ve read, NXIVM is basically a Scientology knockoff.

It’s like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with awful people....

I know Chris and this take is 100 percent correct. She is competent, just and fair. She probably told him that he’d have to start doing his job correctly and held him accountable for his actions.

Exactly! Years ago, my daughter was in a Summer program for advanced high school students and they invited a retired Dean of Admissions from Princeton to address the parents on “College Day.” After taking about the fourth different version of the question “What do I have to do to get my kid into an Ivy?”, he said “Let…

Face-to-face confession is fairly common now, post-Vatican II. Older buildings that still have the old confessional booths installed will often use them, but newer buildings (especially in the American South, in my experience) usually don’t install them anymore so it’s just in the priest’s office or wherever. Not my…

In my experience, nothing makes a misogynist, half-assing dude go from zero to sputtering Kavanaugh than a woman finally holding him accountable at work.

Agreed! I’m a college student myself, admittedly from a normal state university that would accept just about anyone. It’s frustrating to see that among many the narrative is being spun as if these universities - or college degrees in general - are worthless and that “nobody learns anything from college” or that Ivy…

Bone to pick: this girl being trash isn’t a hall pass to disparage universities (USC and SDSU in this article alone) that a lot of us worked hard to get into and get through. You don’t sound cool when you suggest these competitive schools are worthless; you sound like an elitisit. If your point is that education is…

That’s not only common, but expected. Mormon preteens/teens have one-on-one “interviews” alone in a room with their (untrained, layperson, neighbor-who-probably-lives-up-the-street) bishop, and one required part of the interview is specifically asking about any “unchaste” behavior. Some bishops ask if the kid has done…

A friend of mine in high school was raised Mormon. He said his bishop pushed my friend repeatedly to confess in explicit detail all the times my friend jerked off.

A few other choice nuggets from the Outside article:

Yup. More specifically, by a single member of the club. There was only one complainant in the grievance filed against her--a guy whose main complaint was that she punished him on the multiple occasions that he refused to do his job. smh. 

So basically - the woman hired to replace the guy fired for enabling a He Man Woman Hater’s club is harassed out of her job by the He Man Woman Hater’s club. 

The National Park Service still exists in 1916. My fellow rangers used the n-word almost daily. They don’t give a shit about employment law. There’s very much an attitude of, “We ARE the government, so we make the rules, and no outsiders can tell us what to do.” I’ve got stories for hours. All I’ll say is they need to…

Rich Guy prison is way different from poor people prison.
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/3/18116351/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-labor-secretary-acosta

Me: The prison-industrial complex must be destroyed, there is no just incarceration

Florida will always have bath salts face-eating guy. Enough said.

I’ve run into several fraudulent rental listings on Craiglist. They take photos from a realtors’ website, post it on Craigslist have some lame excuse bout being out of the country. “Mail us the deposit, and I’ll mail you the keys.” “Just go peak in the windows if you want to look at the place.”

I guess people have…

A few years ago in a newish development right up the street from me, a couple bought a fairly expensive McMansion. A few weeks later they showed up with a moving van to move into the place, only to find the locks changed. As they tried to get in, two women came to the door asking what they wanted.

Agreed.