The other response to combat automation is to increase shoplifting. A grocery story and a Walgreens near me both put in substantial self-checkout lanes, then removed them after a few months due to the sudden increase in shoplifting.  There’s no replacement for the social pressure exerted by the physical presence of a…

This illustrates exactly why schools are right not to be paying student athletes; a contract obligating one party to be a victim of a crime by the other party in exchange for compensation is illegal.

So for some reason, I saw the name “Lisa Spinelli,” thought “hey, that’s the ‘I’m so excited, I’m so ... scared!’ character from Saved by the Bell,” watched the trailer, and thought, “yeah, that seems like her grown up.” Wikipedia revealed that I was incorrected (it was Jessie Spano, duh), but I’m still interested in…

You are very, very lucky.  The rest of us have to endure weeks on end without Chandler references.

Another question would be: what if the stand-in was darker than the actor? Would lightening the stand-in’s skin to match the actor’s also be problematic, in light of white America’s historic preference for lighter-skinned African Americans? Do and intent and context really have nothing to do with lightening and…

I regularly hang up on people due to fat-facism (not to be confused with fat-fascism, which is also a big problem since Trump came to Big Gulp country). It’s a curse.

I see your According to Jim and raise you Yes, Dear, a show so totally laugh-free that it has to have the product of very early machine learning.  Yet it somehow ran for SIX SEASONS!!!(?)

Oh my god, could they BE any more lame?

I suspect he’s going to get paid. He’s a head case, but he’s a headcase that the rest of the team seems to think serves some kind of competitive purpose. And at the end of the day, he’s 11 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 7.3 assists per game that also can play DPOY-level defense.  There’s a reason that people have started…

Basketball Diaries meets Book Thief.

Is this for Twenty Years a Slave or La La Land?

The trick to selling things at a loss is volume. Sure, if you sell ten widgets at a one-dollar loss each, you less ten dollars, but sell a million widgets at a one-dollar loss each and you can trick investors into thinking you’re a startup with significant growth, pay yourself, and get out before anyone’s the wiser.…

Close, it’s Taco Tuesday (of the Kennebunkport Tuesdays).

I saw a dispenser for Drakkar Noir in a truck stop bathroom not that long ago.  I laughed very, very hard.  It made everyone in that truck stop bathroom uncomfortable.

There’s a lot to not like here, but “as normal as seeing an elephant commit mass murder with an AK-47 and then being killed by a baby ra[c]coon” is a very bad simile that nonetheless does a lot of public good by signaling that he is neither smart nor funny but sees himself as both.  It’s good to know these kinds of…

It might not be. Presumably, the reason that prisoner services is a more desirable position for officers than regular assignment is that it is (1) less tedious, (2) less dangerous, and (3) less soul-tarnishing (in the simple sense that you don’t feel as bad at the end of the day as you would otherwise). Assuming that…

It was for sex. They were going to do sex with the shark.

She also has an excellent haircut.  She is just knocking it out of the park on all fronts.

This is a really interesting article, and I only take exception with that woman's criticism of barre as "delicate." Barre is hard as shit.

So he fled the country and is now liquidating all domestic assets that could be seized pursuant to judgments obtained in civil suits? With the proceeds of those sales almost certainly being stashed in off-shore accounts? Sounds totally innocent and above-board to me!