The average pay is higher than 60% of the residents because they perform a job that requires higher education and annual training. I’ll never understand why you don’t hold accountants and lawyers to the same “why do we pay them” standards.

It absolutely astounds me, the level of illiteracy combined with ego that swarms every level of working society. I don’t mean everybody doesn’t write like Cormac McCarthy, I mean people who theoretically can not only read and write but have a degree from an institution of higher learning don’t know what a verb is and…

Not at all. He seems like someone who has taken on this cause because of the effects abuse caused on his sister.  Also, hearing his interview with Jon Lovett made me feel he has a very boring personal life.

This seems like one of those things a lot of people could’ve come up with independently...

Yeah, this whole thing really pisses me off. Don’t these guys have any pride? Never mind not supporting people in Hong Kong who have good reasons to be afraid of Bejing’s repressions, but to bend over and actively parrot Beijing’s talking points about “reasonable limitations on freedom of speech” and “not being…

The US does have its own issues with human rights abuses, including police brutality against communities of color, about which LeBron has (rightfully) spoken out against in the past. Acting as if one has to live in a country without faults to criticize other nations is a pretty ridiculous perspective to take.

With…

No reasonable person is mad at LeBron for failing to provide a nuanced opinion on the two systems policy or for failing to speak out against every single human rights abuse going on in the world. There is a big gulf between expecting or wanting NBA players to speak up on every issue and expecting NBA players not to…

LeBron has been on the correct side of athletes making political statements for most of his career. “I can’t breath” t-shirts were amazing and impactful. Dude must have some serious economic interests in China to take a dump on his political legacy so easily.

Yeah, He’s seems to be taking Laura Ingraham advice..

The key thing here is there’s no reason for LeBron James to capitulate. Dude can say literally whatever he wants without ramifications, and with that power, what does he do? He goes to town on a boot leather sandwich. It’s just sad.

At what point does it stop being self-righteousness and become true righteousness then? You could argue that virtually any protest is self-righteous but if the cause is just what does it matter? Shall the status-quo never be disrupted because the once and future Messiah has not arrived yet? The goal posts will always…

You know there are other jobs out there? You know a lot of people take jobs that do good (or even potentially just don’t cause bad shit) at a low salary simply because they don’t feel an extra bed and bath or five is worth making these kinds of statements, right?

Craven capitulation to money I can understand. It’s gross but careers are short, whatever. But this is craven capitulation to the bullies in the Chinese government who are so shit-scared of what’s happening in Hong Kong that they’ve mobilized their worldwide army of ass lickers in support of their temper tantrum.

I think this defense is broadly right—but it still amounts to LeBron saying that the sensitivities of one of the world’s most brutal and repressive regimes should set boundaries on what people in the NBA say in public. Which is fuckin’ gross!

I understand the players are caught between a rock and a hard place. But this has to be one of the most craven capitulations to money I have ever seen by a major athlete. Should have kept quiet. His rationale is bullshit.

Sesame Street isn’t owned by HBO. They simply air there for a few months before PBS. If that deal didn’t happen, Sesame Street likely wouldn’t exist anymore because “viewers like you” aren’t really chipping in the way they used to. But go on. 

HBO gets new Sesame Street content exclusively for the first 6 months it’s out, then it’s given to PBS for wider distribution. So in the end everything is out and free to the public. It’s a decent compromise that makes the show sustainable.

Karli won’t appear on the actual television show just yet; she was created for the online initiative. As her storyline develops, fans of the show will learn why she was placed in foster care: her mother had to go away for treatment, but now she’s back home and in recovery. The new resources, which help children…

How anyone can express surprise and indignation at the fact that monsters with overblown egos, massive entitlement and a disregard for others will not simply fade away quietly seems odd. They’ve proven they only care about their own needs and desires and are aided and abetted by celebrity culture and people’s desire…

I’ve long thought the proper response to the Lost Cause racist fucks and their statues of the CSA pantheon is to leave Lee or Jackson or Bedford Forrest standing but raise a matched set of Sherman and Grant at least three times the scale flanked by some United States Colored Troops enlisted men as color guard. Giant…