No, we're run by a university (open to the public, but in a uni building and under Housing & Dining). If we kicked out assholes, we'd kick out half the entitled students who eat here and who think their iPod is more important than the person attempting to serve them.

Let's see....because N.K. Jemison doesn't call people "half-savages" because of their race? Or say that people of a different race deserve to be shot? Or that the world was better when women couldn't vote?

It's not just location—the church/school/whatever is basically the sponsor and owner of the chapter. For example, a troop might be part of Small Town Church and all its members would come from the church population and the church would help fund its activities. It's a bit like a fraternity or sorority in that sense.…

It wasn't like hair gel. It was both slick and sticky, and not the tacky sort of feeling of drying hair gel, and I think the hair was cat hair. Plus, the book had already been in the drop for several hours, so whatever it was had amazing never-dry-out powers.

Yeah, the ones who expect the laws of physics to bend to their will are the worst. I also had a customer the same day who wanted to know what "cut of beef" we used in our stir fry. I couldn't think of a polite way to say, "Sir, this is a food court. It's probably ground up lips and anuses. If it weren't, you'd be…

Haha, you think call centers are bad? I worked in a public library in high school. Once, I went to pick up a book that someone had returned, and it was COVERED in a clear, gelatinous substance (to this day, I don't know what it was) and hair. HAIR.

Uuuuugh. I had an absolute nutter this weekend at the food court I work at. She was nicely dressed and didn't give off a 'crazy' aura, but she has to be the most demanding customer I've had at this job. She started off by ordering a two-patty, double-cheese, double-bacon hamburger with "two and a half fistfuls!" of…

I'm a pretty hardcore leftie and I don't have any problem with GMOs as a concept. What I do have a problem with is companies like Monsanto using GMOs irresponsibly (among their other terrible business practices). I also think people ought to be informed about where their food is coming from so they can choose what…

I have not read the novelette myself, but the consensus from people who have read it seems to be that it is an okay work, not awful but not particularly interesting or thought-provoking. It's not really his politics that bother me (well, they do bother me, but politics shouldn't disallow anyone from a writing award if…

I made the mistake today of following a link to his disgusting response to N.K. Jemisin calling him out on his bigotry, and WOW I didn't know attitudes like that still existed outside of Louisiana swamps. I'm considering buying a voting membership just to vote against him.

What about The Windup Girl, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell? Any of Connie Willis or Caitlin R. Kiernan's recent books?

As John Scalzi pointed out, the last time a novel was suspected of ballot stuffing (1987 with L. Ron Hubbard) it got voted below "No Award." Let's hope that happens again.

Wait—-so a survey by a website FOR bisexual women showed a good number of the respondents were bisexual? Sure, that didn't skew results at all.