I mean did no one else have "steak night" while living in a dorm? I'm assuming the quality of the food in federal prison is lower than that. It was not good steak. And if we want to be serious about rehabilitation, small holiday celebrations need to be a thing. Incentizing good behavior has to be a thing.

That’s truly a lovely obituary.

True. "Essential" employees who are working are guaranteed back pay, but not until Congress passes an appropriations bill, but it does not specifically need to mention back pay. Other employees have always gotten back pay, but it generally requires a separate set of legislation. Sometimes it's in the same legislation,…

A bit better. I think mentioning that she and Neil Young used to be married is fair game. But I feel like mentioning Darryl Hannah seems a bit over the top.

They'd all be fired. Federal employees can't legally strike. But it's a lot harder to prove when people are getting "sick" here and there.

Some of those photos are old and from right after big events. Lots of it seems to be getting hauled away but not all of it.

Well, unfortunately, the 1% doesn't pay through withholding, so they will be fine. This will mostly fuck over people who have what the IRS suggestions withheld, but have a mortgage, give to charity, and pay state and local taxes. Or poor people who qualify for refundable credits.

Then you need to name the faults. Non specific “she’s sketchy” isn’t actual faults and problems. 

Yes. I’m pretty sure he’s been an abusive ass for many, many years. But in 1987, when I was 13, he was that really cute guy on 21 Jump Street, and media was a whole different ball game. Also, this why we don’t let 13-year-olds make adult decisions. :-)

I was 13 in 1987. Scott and Kirk never said weird conservative shit to Tiger Beat then either.

My adult taste hasn’t been that terrible. Of course, other than hedgefund bro, I didn’t actually know them.

Thirteen year old me had pretty terrible taste in men. See Johnny Depp, Kirk Cameron, Scott Baio, and that boy in my eighth-grade class who become a hedgefund bro and helped break the global economy.

Both she and Klobuchar got behind prosecuting kids for truancy. It was a bad strategy, but it was at the time considered a reasonably progressive strategy. It was a very popular idea that if we could just get kids to go to school, lot of other problems would be solved. Which is not untrue. However, it becomes a…

But there are people who will and will fall for “both parties are the the same.” There fear is they will stay home. That’s the big fear. Good turnout Trump looses big. Bad turn out maybe the electoral college gives him another turn. It’s not about converting Trump voters. It’s about making sure people who don’t…

This is one of those things that can go from innocently charming to over the top quite quickly. Years ago I hired a professional cat sitter and she left a paper log of time in/time out and sometimes a note like “ate well, hid under bed.”

Love the Banneker watches. Would totally get one for my Dad except finding out I spent that much on a watch would cause him actual physical pain. (I realize they aren't super expensive watches but, dads.)

Definitely. Went to high school in Louisville. Went to school with one of the guys now running a bourbon empire. Seems to be a decent guy. Seems to have continued support of good causes.

That's her interns not her entry level staff. I'm more concerned about what she pays her entry-level full time staff.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Maher thinks the 70s was 20 years ago. Like when he was in his 20s. There is a certain kind of person uses “20 years ago” to mean “when I was a young adult.” Maher kind of personifies that. (To be fair I’m shocked that people who where born the year I started college aren’t young children,…

I’ve got a scale of “should someone have known that is racist.” At the bottom is my 94 year old grandma. She’s not like actively racist, but clueless. She knows black face and saying the N word is racist. She knows you don’t ask to touch a black woman’s hair. She is also a little unclear on how "people of color" and…