Best. Soccer game. Ever.

No matter how this game ends, never forget Pete Carroll is a 9/11 truther piece of shit. Fuck that guy.

He asked the ref if it was a first down. The ref told him no. Jamesis doesn’t like taking no for an answer.

Except that is awesome and I think the NFL should give him 5 points for being able to bounce it off the top of an upright.

So maybe Barron isn’t all that good with computers after all.

Incorrect, if he didn’t grab her arm she would have walked right into that oncoming train.

Guys, my (Latino) husband doesn’t know it yet because he’s not home, but our couples Halloween costume is now Nasty Woman and Bad Hombre, this nightmare election is finally giving me something useful.

All my excess live in Texas.

Why is the assumption all jobs should provide a living wage?

And my guess is that $32 billion generates a large return on an annual basis.

Oi, there is so much to unpack in your comment:

dumb people love to criticize hamilton nolan articles for not “understanding” things that are purely human constructs, as if they are laws of nature.

He’s in the penalty box for ruffing

The above is based on a cursory analysis. I may have made a few minor errors, but overally, Harvard could easily appropriate a few extra basis points a year and ensure that all its staff get a living wage while having essentially zero impact on ongoing operations otherwise.

What I’m saying is that paying these workers a living wage will not impact the money going into the endowment. That is, as you stated, driven by factors unrelated to these salaries.

For those who are going to bitch about the endowment and “how it works”, the endowment is there to provide income for ongoing operations of the University, and a large chunk of that is for ‘general support’. On the other hand, there’s unrestricted net income. Per Harvard’s annual financial reports, Unrestricted Net…

This. The “everyone else is doing it” argument towards mistreating your staff doesn’t apply when you’re supposed to be the pinnacle of higher ed.

Because you want to avoid the look created by this strike.

True, but all of those are normal budgetary events. Organizations often give salary increases with the assumption that their revenues will continue to match pace. When that doesn’t happen they either cut costs or increase their revenues.

Used to work in the marketing/communications department for a private, Catholic university in Irving, Texas. Wages were pretty good (better than I was making at The Dallas Morning News), but the honeypot for higher-ed jobs is the way they will try and comp you for other things (classes, MBAs, etc.).
Now the major…