Our school district has instructed all teachers to refrain from showing any portion of the inauguration.

I’m still waiting to wake up on November 8th from the nightmare that I’ve somehow found myself trapped in.

I guess Crowley will have to find a new meat suit to get in on the apocalypse triggering action...

I’ve had death threats on FB and gotten a version of that form letter after I reported them. As far as I can tell it’s because FB hires people earning very little to go through this stuff and they just start hitting buttons randomly to meet their quota.

I have concerns over Cirq style shows and worker safety, especially regarding child performers.

I found a “free” abandoned kitten once. $1,000 and two months of not sleeping later, and I have a cat who can’t jump and sometimes gets knocked over by a loud sound but is otherwise relatively healthy.

This seems to be much the same idea.

You don’t have control over who shows up first. I’ve had to call at work for manic and psychotic clients, and every time we have to call 911 the police officer comes in first. The ambulance follows fifteen minutes or so later. Even when it’s for physical health reasons, the police are always first.

(and I am really…

It is, though. If I ask my union rep “hey, is it OK to refuse to do XYZ” my union rep is obliged to tell me if, according to my contract, I can refuse it. The union isn’t going to throw good money after bad defending me for obvious contractual violations.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) I work in a profession where…

I’m in that same place. The fault seems to be more with Georgia taking waaay too long than anything else. There was no obvious way for Loyola to find out, aside from self disclosure.

It’s basically a managerial decision. Since the law isn’t providing specific, explicit guidance on this issue, the governor has discretion to provide orders specific to his employees (employees of the state government). A lot of how our government is ran is based on things like executive orders that “fill in the…

The narrative sounds fake.

Also, let’s assume this happened. It’s SHITTY to share this story without the family’s explicit permission, and if he HAD their permission they’d have no reason not to verify it.

My brother was in a children’s hospital around Christmas and got visits from all sorts of costumed characters,…

They were playing the game to win a landslide, when they needed to play the game to win a solid, but slight majority in the EC.

Maybe it’s because of my job I’m becoming more sensitive, but...

I work with adults who have various disabilities, and I’ve had the privilege of sitting in the ER for days on end with clients who were violent or psychotic or suicidal as the social worker calls every psych unit in the state, only to be turned away from each one. It’s completely bizarre that they aren’t able to…

It depends on the unit, some units do allow visitors most of the day. Also, we don’t know he’s on psych- he could be on a med floor, it’s not unprecedented for a psych patient to be held on a med floor for whatever reason, quite possibly just because he’s high profile but also perhaps because he’s detoxing or they’re…

Once you get to 3rd cousins and 2nd cousins once removed, genetically your risks are exceedingly low (as long as there aren’t many cousin marriages in prior generations). Actually, first cousins, assuming no inbreeding for several generations prior, are fairly low risk genetically. The big genetic risks happen when…

I read it as she was frozen after her death, but I could be wrong. It is very sad, and it sounds like she was an awesome kid.

Yeah, Pence is awful, but Pence is *predictably awful*. Trump is only predictable in that he is unpredictable.

What happens the first time a foreign leader insults him?

I had an young woman that I serve (I work in group homes with women who have various disabilities). She was in tears about Trump winning a couple months ago. She was afraid her home would close and she would have nowhere to live. 

I told her that I didn’t think he’d win, and that even if he did win I didn’t think he…

She needs to.

I also hope Sec. Clinton stays abroad working for the Clinton Foundation for a few years...

I can’t believe that I actually feel like a president of the United States can threaten our liberty to such great a degree.

I turned on NPR for five minutes this morning, and had to turn it off when they started to talking about repealing ACA, rolling back things like DACA, repealing environmental standards, etc.

I am use to NPR making me cry. I am not use to NPR making me ugly cry with a side of panic attack. I keep thinking back to…