When you have a country at near full employment, there are opportunities for people with criminal records. Where there is a labor surplus, and employers can fill positions with non-felons, people will prefer not to hire criminals.

Everybody says that, but the vast majority of inmates are in state run prisons. The fact is that, while these guys get a lot of sympathy from progressives, most people, particularly people who have been robbed or burglarized, don’t care about the welfare of prisoners.

A female director made him the star of her Academy Award-winning movie.

Both Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence have professional agents they pay to negotiate this stuff. Those agents are supposed to extract the largest possible pieces of the pie for their clients.

It’s normal for a director to push for his artistic vision, and it’s normal for a line producer to try to keep the project within budget. And when they can’t resolve those goals, the executive producer will either find the money, or tell the director to do without something.

If everyone is pissed off at Effie, it must be all of them who are unreasonable!

Somebody in that room did have a gun, and there would have been no shooting if he hadn’t.

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Maybe you’re unaware, but Damon said something unfavorable about diversity!

But white men always show careful, polite deference to each other right? Or maybe they don’t, and maybe people are just getting twisted up over ordinary conversations.

Yes, and then the poem got selected for Best American Poetry. It was one of very few poems selected that was not written by a poetry professor. Sherman Alexie thought it was very good.

Jezebel ran a story a month ago about a woman who submitted work under a male pseudonym. How is this different?

The funny thing about this is that neither Serena or Maria earns as much in endorsements as Rafael Nadal.

Is Rousey making more endorsement $$$ than Williams or Sharapova? If not, what does she have to do with this?

Most of the costs associated with operating a Chipotle come from labor and rent. The weight of your burrito probably doesn’t impact their margins too much, and they will give you a trough full of food and send you off fat and happy, if it keeps you from bitching at the manager about getting a skimpy burrito and it…