I blame twitter.

I think you are right. I also think many retailers tend to hire young, inexperienced (aka “inexpensive”) personnel and then fail to train/support them.

She could always move to Somalia. Somalia has no government. Win.

I met a loony who claimed to be a “conspiracy realist” not a theorist, “because it’s really happening!” In her overheated world, scientists are bought and paid for, multiple levels of private enterprise and public service are colluding to poison us from the skies, fluoride is a mind control agent, and naturopaths are…

In all seriousness, I still remember how different the skies looked on September 12th, 2001. There were no planes in the skies, other than fighter jets providing combat air patrol for NYC. There were no contrails. There were no commercial planes circling in holding patterns for the local commercial airports. It was…

This is so on point. The free flow of information for all and sundry was a dangerous route, indeed. It has contributed to our downfall.

Mankind developed the internet before they had the mental faculties to deal with all the information in a discerning way. Gullibility combined with that most sinister of human traits, confirmation bias, has led us down a dark trail.

MoNa? Cripes. Are we giving nature a NYC neighborhood acronym now? Just kill me, please, ughhhhhhhh.

Ouch.

Ohhhh, man. I WAS one of those free lunch kids for a while. However, I actually cringe a bit when I think about THAT. I grew up in a very wealthy, very liberal Boston suburb, and my mom was a single mother. However, we lived with my upper-middle-class grandparents and had MORE than enough food and anything else we…

I did 10 years in the Guard including a year in Iraq for Bush/Cheney. Yup, stupid. Still not sure the cause I supported... freedom?

There seems to be an above-average number of Jezebel commentors who were once born again Christians and appeared on Christian television shows (another commentor upthread had a similar story. I guess this can give me hope for the brainwashed 18 year old Trump supporters I see at school.

I was born into poverty in a super duper conservative state and lobbied HARD against free or reduced lunches at school, even for people who were worse off than we were, because my mom was hard core that we would eat nothing before accepting charity. And if I had to eat shitty lunches like a half piece of bread and…

I accepted a while ago that the only way I’m going to manage to become vaguely non-awful is by trying every awful thing I don’t realize is awful yet and then regretting it at 3am for the rest of my life.

I switched my voter registration from Florida to Massachusetts in 2000 (my senior year of college), comvinced that it’s not like my absentee ballot was going to matter much in Broward County.

I’m pretty embarrassed to admit this, but I was once anti-choice. I was a born-again christian asshole. I spoke at a dinner, there’s video of me at the age of 19 on a christian talk show, marched at an anti-choice event. I do my penance now by giving money every month to Planned Parenthood and having an abortion every…

Yeah, people have gotten so sensitive about that kind of thing--demanding “safe spaces” and such so that you can hardly find even a closet to piss in these days.

Jesus this is depressing

Donald Trump slapped his second-most slappable son, who was wearing a Yankees shirt at the time?

To be fair, it was a different era. In 1998, urinating in other people’s beds wasn’t as big of a deal as it is today.