This is about as bullshitty as I’d expect an evolutionary psychologist to be.

I don’t think so— the Helicarrier had the pointy shield logo, so I’m betting it’s somehow connected to Adama’s people.

Good point. And any army laying siege to the Eyrie would have to find its own water supplies, too, which is likely difficult on the side of a mountain.

Except that would take literally years, since, at least in the books, the Eyrie’s stores are supposed to last through 5-year winters. So yes, it’s vulnerable, but only if you have a LOT of time to starve them out, or luck out and happen to need to take it at the beginning of spring after they’ve already eaten all…

Great recap— I think the focus on oaths and breaking them is perhaps foreshadowing Sansa breaking her oath to Ramsey and betraying him, hopefully in some very painful way.

It’s a regional thing. I never heard the phrase hand-dipped until I moved away from New England.

Complete nonsense? Pretty much every economist acknowledges that the EITC is a subsidy. It's not a moral judgment to say that, and it's not a judgment on what your employer is responsible for. It's a subsidy because employers can pay less in wages to get the same value, because the government pays the workers cash for…

This study doesn't even include the government's biggest giveaway to low-wage employers, which is the Earned Income Tax Credit. It's something like a $65 billion subsidy to employers who pay a low wage. Not that I think it's a bad idea— just, for it not to be a subsidy, it needs to be combined with a high minimum…

You're probably right. Wasn't entirely clear to me that was the case, but that certainly makes sense.

Cersei will be queen, until someone younger and more beautiful (Margaery Tyrell) comes along, to take it all away from her.

But I'm not here to bash us.

I don't think so— Google says EJO is 5'10", Palicki 5'11", and Henry Simmons 6'4". This picture looks about right.

Yeah, Darden basically has taken its employees' right to sue them away through a very restrictive arbitration clause. No class actions allowed in arbitration, generally. So you have to take your complaint first directly to management, then to mediation, then to (individual) arbitration, and if you skip any of those…

Firing them for being sick, though, is perfectly legal, and there's nothing a worker can do to enforce any kind of health code against the employer.

I voted for Star Trek, and I think it's no real contest between the two. But I think people are ignoring the prequels, the same way I'm ignoring TAS, the last couple seasons of Voyager, and Enterprise.

I took your response that "stomach viruses/food poisoning very much counts" to be a response to my point that an employer may fire a worker for taking unpaid time even if the worker is in food service and has a stomach virus. So you're right, it may be in a technical sense illegal to allow the worker to handle food—…

Right— and you can be fired for going home in this situation in almost every jurisdiction in the US.

Nope. Your employer can fire you for calling in sick if you have a stomach virus in most places, regardless of whether you'd take that day off paid or unpaid. You may think that because it's food service, stomach viruses count, but you'd be wrong, there are cases under the FMLA establishing that. You may think it's…

You're mixing statistics. I believe the EEOC stats for litigated cases includes settlements after a complaint is filed; it's all cases where the EEOC ends up taking an employer to court. It doesn't include settlements before filing a complaint in court, but for those, they're not really representing the employee.

I totally agree with you that employees in similar situations should file with the EEOC, and Rabbit LaRue probably could, too, but I'm writing to quibble with one thing you said: