The article I read about this earlier today (WaPo? I don’t remember) also noted that Payne was adjudicated a sexual harasser earlier in his career.

I feel like I’ve seen this happen to a lot of terms.

When the word “mansplaining” started appearing, I had a terrible time figuring out what it meant. When I finally did, I realized my confusion was because I’ve had women do it to me just as often as men, possibly more.

You work in HR, don’t you? ;)

By the way, as far as I’m concerned all of the friends that were on the porch when Oliver started berating Jordan are culpable too. I know it’s awkward to get in between 2 people who are ‘dating or whatever’ and maybe having a lovers’ quarrel, but at some point all you have to do is be like “hey man, calm down it…

I may be a hick living in Cowpietown, but my commute is a breeze.

I was eliminated from a spelling bee in 1986 for spelling it amuck. A competitor who did that today would advance. The only difference is that sometime between 1986 and 2005 (when I checked), “they” decided wrong was right now. So I have a personal ax to grind.

I have deeply conflicted feeling over accepted alternate spellings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, living language. Except it turns out it’s “living” because when so many people are wrong, the dictionary just decides to make wrong right. This pains me.

I know why it happens, but I hate seeing “should of,” “could of,” and “would of.”

Introverts unite! Individually, in our own homes!

When I was a child those flying devil monkeys scared the shit out of me.

It may seem glamorous

I handle my department’s social media and confusing work with personal accounts is something I’ve literally had nightmares about. I would consider this gaffe nowhere near as bad as it could have been. :)

Probably also feels some survivor guilt and plain guilt guilt (people died because they wanted to see him play.) I’d need some time off, too.

He’s also probably pretty traumatized and needs some time to decompress before showing up at work again. In his shoes, I would too.

I’ve noticed that people like being attached to tragedies, especially when they weren’t actually harmed by them. And I’ve seen people goofy enough to lie about being attached to said tragedy. People are weird.

There are so many PT Cruisers around here that I’ve concluded the state must have bought a bunch and they’re driven by employees. There’s no other good explanation.

When I first heard of this one, I couldn’t decide who was worse: the people who do this for money or me and my dick friends who did this as teenagers just to fuck with people. We’d call a random number and cry and tell them “Mom, I’m in jail!”

In my house, it’s the younger cat bullying the older cat. I’d feel worse about it except my now older cat was previously the younger cat bullying the (now deceased) older cat. So she kind of deserves it.

I hope that’s true even though my two current cats seem to hate each other.