I assume “Leo” is short for “Locutus.”

The way the federal law currently is it actually WILL be Standard Time, not DST. Right now federal law allows us one of two options. 1) The current March to November time switch 2) Permanent Standard Time (Winter, 5PM sunset time). The goal is permanent daylight saving time, yes, but it will require a change to…

Stand your ground and be proud! You are correct in your initial assessment. I just do not understand why people would choose to live in more darkness. It’s going to be depressing when you have to get up early and go to work regardless. I’d rather it not be pitch black when I leave work, and especially if I have to…

[Gandalf] YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

>plus he clearly quit trying during their playoff loss
They were not going to beat the 2013 Spurs without Kobe. By the way Kobe, Lebron, and Harden have all been accused of quitting in series-ending playoff losses.

He’s been on five NBA teams. Every single one has had tons of rumors/stories/etc come out after he left about how his teammates and coaches can’t stand him.

Years from now, as you sit vacantly in your recliner, thinking of all the accomplishments of your life, all the books and articles you wrote, and all the sentences you crafted, you will remember that day in 2018 in which you described Dwight Howard as a “hulking goofsteak” and know with 100 percent certainty that it…

So here’s the thing, the woman wasn’t yelling at you because she was homeless. She was yelling at you because she was mentally ill. She’s probably homeless because she’s mentally ill, too. So you see, the problem isn’t that this person was homeless, it’s that there are insufficienct resources for the mentally ill.

The “home first” initiative — providing living spaces where treatment can take place — seems to help the most. They need money, especially those with dependents, but simply having a place to live, with a service provider looking at conditions in the home, will diminish both animosity and mental illness. (You’d be…

As long as you supply your own sack of doorknobs.

Exactly. I always say, when someone says they’d rather pay pretty much the same amount of money on security systems and a gated community that they would on taxes to address the problem in the wider community strictly out of some picky libertarian principle, then I know I’m dealing with a plain old asshole.

A homeless guy used to hang out around my office. We would pay him to wash our cars. He was a large man, over 6 feet tall. He clearly had mental issues. One night, a woman let him into her office to use the bathroom and he brutally raped her. We absolutely need to fund social services for homeless people, including…

“Oooo, look at me! I’m an athletic white man!”~ Bart Fargo

I’m completely in favor of that and am totally willing to pay for more affordable housing, better social services, safe injection sites, etc. but that doesn’t mean that people shitting in your building, or grabbing you, or leaving empty, contaminated syringes all over the sidewalk is acceptable. There’s a middle…

I’m not defending the use of the robot (it’s tacky and ineffective), but rather the implication in this article that anyone who has valid concerns about individual homeless people is some kind of cruel asshole.

The social compact has failed the homeless, ergo, they have no moral or social responsibility not to piss in our cornflakes. Should we want that to stop, we should fund the social services that would prevent it. But we don’t. So let us not whine about the consequences.

Then the company ought to hire a person who can recognize instances of middle ground and show the accordant empathy. Maybe the company could hire an athletic white man, though it probably would have to be one who’s not a pussy about saying “Sorry, I don’t have any change” to icky poors

Nobody has ever said to their real estate agent: “Show me something in an area with lots of homeless people.”

What irritates me about stories like this is that there’s no middle ground. I absolutely think it’s important to treat homeless people with dignity and build more affordable housing, but the fact is that some of them act like assholes and attack/hurt innocent people, and a company shouldn’t be considered evil or…