You’re right, she’s actually Taffy, from down the warehouse.

No worries I didn’t get the impression you were disparaging - just wanted to bring it up as the “soft skills” developed in an LA education often get lost in the shuffle.

Some updates on that front:

I don’t disagree, but would just like to stress the importance of skills developed by a quality liberal arts education: critical thinking, ability to research effectively, problem solving, communication and language skills generally, and so on. I have a graduate degree in art history and have been able to adapt and be…

If only things like this were actually funny anymore. I taught at a small four-year university some years back. I had several students that I would describe as “functionally illiterate” because, while they could technically read and write, they could not do so correctly (some couldn’t even write a single sentence…

I’ve been calling my Dem reps to tell them that I won’t accept anything less than all-out opposition to Trump. Also, don’t be too nervous because it’s likely you’ll just be leaving a voicemail. I haven’t yet talked to an actual person and I’ve been cycling through both senators and my rep in the house.

I noticed in the interview above that they’re trying to layer on extra spackle lately to hide the cracks.

This is a corny joke right here.

Cut them some slack, they’re just screening out all the paid protestors:

I think it would be kind of cool if everyone boycotted watching the game - it is on Fox, after all, which is one of the big reasons why we’re in this terrible mess. But of course that will never happen.

As someone who lived there for five years, this is the best description of Delaware since Wayne’s World

I like to call them, “right to be fired without cause” laws.

I think that’s “Old Economy Steve” that you replied to...

We should all email it to him.

I really don’t know how I can send in my taxes for the next four years if these are the types of things they will go toward, not to mention the salaries of these despicable cretins.

I don’t disagree with you at all, everything you said makes sense, but Sessions doesn’t have to undertake a massive nationwide shutdown of legal weed. A few raids here and there for whatever made up reason (or a real one! some licensed companies are absolutely doing dirt, in addition to the fact that they are breaking…

Fair enough - and I wasn’t saying that waste and inefficiency in govt doesn’t exist, it absolutely does. I was just pointing out that I think the many people seem to focus on that as the primary cause of govt ineffectiveness rather than the corporate influence of big money donors, which is misguided in my view; I…

I don’t know, I hear so much about “government waste” and inefficiency from anti-government types that I get the impression that many think govt employees are just sitting around and raking it in, as if the overworked schlub toiling away for the state health department at $45k a year has it made in the shade or…

I live in out in Colorado currently and usually skim the Denver Post. There hasn’t been any mention of this that I’ve seen. 

Haha, agreed. I think that was a case of sarcasm not coming through well - or me not expressing what I wanted to well enough. I wasn’t actually over-ruled, but just trying to get a cheap laugh from the old trope of the bride getting everything she wants despite any objections. Thankfully my fiance is a true gem and we…