This generation certainly doesn’t lack skills in patting itself on the back, does it?

No student attending Yale will ever be in the “oh, poor me” category of life.

You’re making this look like America’s dumbest generation. Millennials living up to their reputation. Complaining about how good they have it. Fucking best education on the planet, opening doors of opportunity 99.999% of humans that have ever existed couldn’t dream of, and this is what they do with it: Whine?!?

Maybe the Biebz just thinks Charlie Sheen is a dick (like the rest of us), regardless of status.

Your behavior was inappropriate, that's why you got scolded.

You got scolded because you disclosed someone else’s confidential information without their permission. You had no business seeing that check, so repeating that information to others was completely out of line and in many places would have gotten you written up or fired (this would be akin to reading someone’s diary…

Fellow Canadian here, I don’t know about the legality of it, but every retail job I had made me sign a contract that would allow for my termination if I discussed wages with co-workers.

It can both be true that Caitlyn Jenner is not deserving of the Woman of the Year, and that this guy is an asshole for calling her a man.

That’s too much like fascism for my liking. Again, I like how we do it. Protest and boycott them into the poor house. Let the public handle it than Big Brother.

Yes, do we really want a government that can police what we can say? And who makes up the rules as to what passes and what doesn’t?

Boo on her being a bigot but boo on the arrest over her postings. Jesus, what kind of fascist act is that? For once, I like how they do it here in the US when it comes to people like her; bad mouth her on the internet and boycott her place until she goes bankrupt. No one should be arrested for posts like this. Shamed?…

Yes - people don’t understand statistics very well.

My take on this is that people just love to sue when they become inconvenienced/don’t want to take responsibility for their own actions. I had the same thought as AliceInWunderland, above, that in my experience, the placebo pills are usually a different color. When coupled with what you mentioned re: margin of error…

What the fuck are you blathering on about? I said put the story in its proper historical context instead of just throwing it out and declaring it useless. There is so much in the Pippi Longstocking books that is awesome for children, I don’t see why you couldn’t still read them the stories and explain the racist parts…

So, characters in fiction should never say, think, or do offensive things.

Read Malcolm Gladwells study of kitty Genovese. The police were actually called many times by dozens of people during the attack....The reason no one intervened was because they believed someone else would. It’s one of those psych iconic tales that’s absolutely false in every way.

Honorary degrees are stupid and if they withdrawn them from someone, they should also give back any money that person has given.

Worse. It’s like Franky Four Fingers in Snatch.

the most important question here is:

Right. That’s called a shakedown in legalese.