I'd keep Collinsworth and offer in his place Oliver for this specimen of nutmeg-flavored uselessness.

You seem to be under the impression that viewers tune in to football games to hear what sideline reporters have to offer. Those cutaways amount to about 90% of bathroom or beverage refresh breaks among everyone I know.

"Over half the junk posted on this site is femi-nazi liberal manifesto junk,"

Letting Teddy win will do to the Nats what selling Ruth did to the Sox. Enjoy your decades of misery!

Fat Screech, like Fat Oprah, was a lot more likable.

I don't know if they do it annually but the year I went to a game on Mother's Day, they had Mother Oriole come out and browbeat The Bird for his juvenile antics. He definitely could have residual issues.

Wow, a reply to someone without a wish for them to commit suicide? Baby steps, I guess.

Not one of these customers was served and consumed a chocolate cake made with human excrement, so I dispute the idea that they really "got what they deserved" :)

It's no assumption; the Corcorans have developed a very friendly relationship with local media, especially WCVB. There's no doubting they contacted the station and made this "news." As soon as I heard about the incident, before hearing the names involved, I figured it was them and lo and behold, it was.

I actually have no problem believing, anecdotally, the problems detailed in the "2014" sections. However:

That looks like what happened to the FBI agent who went to Dr. Chilton's house to bring him in for questioning on Hannibal.

I can believe it. Some employers have instituted draconian requirements in their zeal prove how wonderfully drug free they are. I would have to be on a lot of drugs to want to work in places like that.

Oh, I think any position - public or private - that requires motor vehicle operation is going to come with a drug screen, along with a background check of some sort, and of course a run of your DMV record.

I was an external, non-contract, direct GS-13 hire in the mid-00s and there was no drug screen required. But I needed no security clearance, nor was I involved in any military/defense policy areas (which I imagine high-level IT hackers would be exposed to, however incidentally).

As far as I know, pre-employment screenings for federal government jobs are on a case-by-case basis (by agency/job classification). Your basic GS-7 pencil pusher at the Department of Commerce isn't subjected to the same scrutiny as a member of the senior executive service at the Department of Defense.

What about those mouth swab/saliva tests? My understanding is that those have a very small window of detection (twenty-four hours max for almost anything), so unless there was an undue delay in administering the test after an accident, a positive sample would turn up very recent use indicative of on-the-job impairment…

At least the source material is an award-winning play and not one of his usual suspects - The Karate Kid, 90210 or Road Rules.

Honestly, I thought he should have walked in and announced he was rehoming the cat in under two minutes. Those people were clearly unfit pet owners.

The rules have come down to arcane readings of an actor's contract. To you and me, there's no way Robert Morse is a "guest" on Mad Men - he's been on the show and in the opening credits since season one. But because of his deal with the show, he qualifies.