As an addendum to that, each discussion about minimum wage should begin with a summary of the original Fair Labor Standards Act, which outlined precisely that a minimum wage was established to allow workers to be able to afford the basic necessities of living off of a single income and not that minimum wage jobs are…

I have had more than one person tell me that I remind them of “that guy from Big Bang Theory” and/or immediately ask me if I watch the show upon knowing me for longer than 45 minutes.

Seriously, shows like this in this day and age feel like an insult.

The Republican Party continues to be the governmental equivalent of a child throwing a tantrum.

I could be wrong, but apparently just dropping classified intel in the middle of a conversation is completely within the confines of the law. From what I understand, the idea is to allow the President to take action for the interest of national security without being hindered by a lengthy process. Of course, this is…

Save your money. There’s a free app called Memrise that will help you learn conversational Russian (among other languages, not that you’ll need those in a few years). That should suffice for when the New World Order takes over.

I’m sure that comment went over especially well with the white men in the audience.

In a psychology class I took in college, I asked the professor if I could use Psychology Today as a source. After all, I had easy access to it since I worked at a public library.

Has anyone crunched the numbers on how the 2016 election would look if the whole country used the Congressional District method of distributing electoral votes, where each candidate receives 1 electoral vote for each district they win with an additional 2 votes going to the overall winner?

But you see, if we educated women about their bodies and encouraged them to exercise autonomy over them THEN gave them free or low cost birth control and contraception all while making it easier for them to actually being a mother, we’d have women running around and having sex outside of marriage and that simply will…

BUT OF COURSE this was in North Carolina.

OH COME ON.

Oh, Rush Limbaugh will most definitely say it. He might try to justify with some statistics, which will either be quoted out of context or completely made-up on the spot, but you are absolutely right than he or some other talking-head conservative mouthpiece will come out and say it.

If not unsourced, then biased, as first-hand accounts tend to be. I mean, if we’re taking first-hand accounts as the absolute gospel, then first-hand accounts from Arneson’s supporters are equally valid, yes?

Most people in the country don’t even understand the theoretical point of bail anyways: to ensure that people show up to court.

Nobody will come out and say it, they’ll just have an ad where a black man in a hoodie stalks a white woman and her child while a narrator goes on and on about violent criminals being released back on the street.

You can’t make this about intelligence. They’ll just say something about elitism and being disconnected from real Americans and honest, hard-working people.

No definitive source I can cite, but I have had exchanges with people who have been in the gaming industry longer than I’ve been alive and had dealings with Gygax and TSR; gaming, especially the sub-culture that is RPGs, was a fairly small world back in the early days of D&D. The Gen Con story I related was of a…

My former employer actually preferred paying you to having you take time off. There was once an employee who had not taken more than two consecutive days off in a year for the ten years they had been working there, so she had a ridiculous amount of time saved up. She requested two weeks and was told that she could…

Just curious: what kind of leave, if any, do you get during the academic year?