Of course Kazanstev has every right to feel empowered and be proud of her body. She should be!

Thank you for your diplomacy.

If I hear Planet Clare once a year...that's enough. Dirty Back Roads and Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland are my favorite B52s songs for the reasons stated above. Live is different but as a mostly singles band...

Did i mention i have an exam on wednesday that i skipped the classes for because the lecturer doesn't want to teach, so i don't know any of it?

A little Fred Schneider goes a really, really long way.

As much as Gawker complains about Reddit in fact its banning policy is exactly like Reddit's, i.e. "ghost banning" where there's no notice informing you of your imagined infraction, which is probably just not paying enough fealty to the latest mommy wars bait.

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OK. Well, aren't you clever then to have tricked me into giving the answer you wanted which could have just been forestalled by stating your supposition about my civics-class awareness. I'm getting a strong sense of being fanned by a fedora here, too, but... whatever you're gender, thanks for the mansplaining in…

I was not making any kind of ad hominem attack on you or your colleagues, to be clear.

No, I'm not (a right wing troll). I was one of the people who was jumping for joy on election night 2008 – I lived in Florida at the time, so you given the history you can imagine the thrill alone of seeing the national election turn out decisively correctly in every sense of the term, and I was still ecstatic well…

In a large metropolis sure police and firefighters have their own representation, or have a sort of tiered chapter of the AFL-CIO. In academic libraries the faculty librarians similarly belong to the larger "United Faculty of (insert state)," etc. Media specialist belong to the teachers' union and so on.

OK. That's not a / OK. You are right.

Are you you the person who used to post as Cata Doxa? Because that person used to develop weird fixations on people, Kinja stalk them, and imagine all sorts of weird stuff that was neither stated nor implied in their posts. Ignoring this type of behaviour does the person, and the board a favor. But as you wish. I'd…

Wow, thanks for knowing all about me, you are very perceptive. "Blowing off steam about" and "being entertained" by human behaviour, amid friends/coworkers, etc. is certainly a part of human nature. I guess collecting fodder by which to deem people "spectacularly stupid" in public on the Internet now is too.

I agree, that's kind of what I was thinking. I've had eye surgery and needed help seeing; that doesn't prove I'm not dumb but it makes me think...

Alright. At least it's not a controversy over mistaking Reiberdatschi for Datschi; I know I'd be sent to bed with no supper for that.

I understand what you are saying and that you are not the packager of the full content of this post...

About the first one...what's the problem? The customer was actually humble enough to realise he didn't understand what was going on instead of becoming defensive and irate as in so many of these stories, he accepted the server's advice with equanimity, he ate all the food and appreciated it, and I assume he paid and…

I think maybe the show of support was in response to the tantrum. That's not really a good example because I've been softly hating that person's inanity for a while. A lot of times the response to health/pregnancy questions here though is "do whatever you want/ drink wine(!)" when it seems like it would be more…

That's true about academic librarians, but unions, and perhaps more meaningfully tenure, exists because that structure is already in place owing to the presence of the teaching faculty. At the institution I came from, even the type of tenure "faculty" librarians who belonged to the union had was different; i.e. based…