In design school, I was blindly picking a serif font to go with a sans font for a project, and I completely geeked out over the ‘g’ character. I was so stoked, I had found the best serif font ever. And it was Times New Roman, and I immediately felt ashamed for every essay I ever turned in with TNR stealthily replaced…

Imagine how it feels to be the one who has to send that to people because Marketing says so. Every email, I feel like I’m spreading typhus.

Or we make “a jury of your peers” mean that 50% of the jurors must match the profile of the victim and 50% of the jurors must match the profile of the defendant. And I mean down to education, race, income—all of it. Some Sunday Christian suburban soccer mom with an interior decorating degree who sells lularoe and…

They are all, er, enjoying the same treatment. Daruk particularly.

In response to this and your other comment, our uniforms included what sock color and height, sweaters, and shoes were acceptable (white crew or knee socks, a specific v-neck cardigan or pullover, and white and black saddle oxfords). And we held a uniform sale at the end of the school year (after May, so new students…

My eye doc’s nurses HATE me for that test. I always blink, and they won’t let me hold my eye open for it until they’ve wasted ten minutes of everyone’s time trying to do it normally. Just put in my file that I’m a problem patient and get some tape. Geez.

Better question: where did all the Polaroid film come from? The company had already gone out of business by then.

As someone who grew up in uniforms (PreK-12, at different schools), I’m going to have to side with uniforms. We always found other ways to express ourselves, and I to this day will tell anyone who will listen that learning which rules you can bend and which you can break is an important “soft skill”. Uniforms are a…

My high school had a security guard. I have no idea what he was supposed to be doing, but he pretty much just broke into our cars and took our stuff to shame everyone into locking their car doors. (To get your stuff back, you had to get a polaroid mugshot taken and placed outside the security office, but no one…

I work in one of the international terminals and second this opinion. When you talk to TSA agents on their breaks, it’s like talking to a box of rocks. Even the airport police think they’re undertrained morons. When someone says “good enough for government work”, these are the people being referred to.

On an only vaguely related topic, my little sister considered getting a burkini for a family vacation not realizing it was a burkini. She took one look at it and went: oh my God, now I won’t burn! It wasn’t until she asked our dad to buy it for her that we were treated to a fun rant about terrorists.

Shhh... you’re not supposed to think about it.

These white-supremacist and anti-government groups have spent the last 100 years painstakingly tailoring their messaging to skirt the very edge of free speech protections. As official entities, they stay just this side of constitutionally-protected, putting the right disclaimers in the right places, carefully…

And that’s what I get for oversimplifying the issue. I’m sorry for denigrating the work you did and the work that dedicated public defenders do everyday. I’m a law librarian, so I see far more public defenders who’ve been thrown in the meat grinder and are jaded and exhausted and/or know that if their poor client…

Regardless of whether you did anything or not, your court-appointed lawyer will pressure you to take a plea deal rather than force them to research case law and take your case to trial and provide you with an adequate defense, which takes up the lawyer’s time and costs them money (since they’re not appropriately…

If you can’t afford to pay for a trial, your court-appointed lawyer will pressure you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to clear their caseload.

You could try hipchecking him into a Christian Side Hug (TM)?

Did I metamorphosize into a parrot? Am I one of those redundant decimals from math class? Because I DON’T KNOW WHY I HAVE TO KEEP REPEATING MYSELF.

Yeah, it’s only treason in layman’s terms. In terms of law, I think it’d be tried under espionage....? Yeah? Right? Oh dear God please tell me this isn’t a new crime yet to be codified and therefore immune from prosecution.

Apart from “taking lives”, that is exactly what the North did to the South. The South was treated as badly as Germany after WW1. It’s easy to lure people into white surpremacy bullshit when they’re working their asses off for no gain. When you’re failing despite your best efforts, you will believe anyone who will tell…