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Man, I used to hate The Social Worker visits growing up as a kid in NYC in the 70s too. My mom has a degree in Electromechnical Engineering but because she was a woman and Black no one would hire her. So we wound up on public assistance. My mom did odd jobs as as well because welfare didn’t provide shit. The social…

“Joan is funny”

Also, removing the trees opens the eye up to the ugliness outside the Rose Garden and it makes the colonnade look awkward. The fan windows looked much better peeking out over the tops of the trees. The nipple lights are a travesty. The proportions (hedges vs. flowers, landscape vs. building, bushes vs. trees) are…

If I may quote the brilliant Ashley Reese, Katie Miller is a woman who is one beach day and a broken flat iron away from not being read as white herself.

That was basically a family throwaway statement. Do you really expect the full-throated voice of accountability to come from people’s immediate family members?

It’s kind of amazing to see how Republicans have basically devoted themselves to completely tearing apart our entire civilization. I know we all understand that but every now and then it hits me all over again. I mean...the post office? Is there anything else in our culture that has touched absolutely every American…

Yeah, I actually live in S.Mpls and I was getting at least one of those mailers every day. A couple of his signs popped up in my neighborhood, but then when I talked to the neighbors, it turned out that (in those cases) the landlord has put the sign up. The tenants were still voting Omar, and the landlord doesn’t even…

I once got a fundraising call from Cori Bush herself and was struck by how palpably compassionate she was. We wound up talking about my sick mother and ostensibly about how things might be different for her if America had universal healthcare but I mostly just felt Bush’s love and concern for me and my family. It…

Two hiring anecdotes I totally believe:

Retail sales have remained steady through the pandemic precisely because people have money to spend. The more people who get to participate in discretionary spending = more money in the economy = more jobs.

Oh that Nazgul & Fell Beast costume was the SHIT. When the head fell off while she was walking the llama around, the whole crowd groaned for her.

I got to go to last year’s event - the past few years it landed on a day when I could not go - and I can confirm the lamas are not at ALL bothered by the costumes. (And it’s a one-l lama not for Ogden Nash reasons, but because it’s the genus that contains both llamas and alpacas, something I heard quite a bit about…

Seriously? Fuck you. I’m Bipolar 1, Ultra rapid cycling. There is NO way for me to control a chemical reaction in my brain. I ended up in a facility because I had the urge to kill myself in 2016 and couldn’t get rid of it and started planning and even though I knew it was off, I didn’t care. My psychiatrist saved my…

I hate to be this guy. But I will be. It sounds like you have Bipolar II or maybe Bipolar unspecified. Bipolar I is a completely different animal. It seems like you’re getting by on outpatient programs only and can’t conceive of the problems that require life-long intermittent stints in inpatient programs. You know,…

“it is clear that she was at least conceptualizing a mask design in May, so make of that what you will.”

I watched Live Aid (on TV, granted, but watched the whole damn thing with my eyes peeled) and yes, people were talking about Phil Collins’ travelling to both shows, but damn, once Queen did their bit, everyone was talking about THAT too. You couldn’t not know what you were seeing.

Haha! I worked on Wild Wild West. It was ridiculous. Kevin Kline was actually really funny and came up with some funny stuff, but Barry Sonnenfeld was so up Will’s ass that he wouldn’t use anything unless Will came up with it. Also, I know how stupid this makes me look but Will Smith still owes me for fronting a…

Mr. Harriot...right on so many levels, I just want to sincerely thank you for succinctly laying all of that out. For nearly 20 years I’ve been arguing essentially the same thing in Higher Ed (my specific bag is figuring out how to close equity gaps in academic outcomes, e.g. retention and graduation rates), and time…

Gawker arguably did something illegal. If you look at the facts of the case and the law as it stands, Gawker actually had a pretty good argument on a couple of fronts. First, that the posting of the video, as sleazy as it was, was actually protected speech. You can tell because Hogan’s, I mean, Bollea’s argument was…