The advice is a bit short on specifics. But it does get at a core truth, which is that when you’re young it’s easy to get frustrated by the fact that so many investment accounts are oriented toward retirement some 30+ years or so down the line —when you believe you’re going to be decrepit or bored by retirement. So…

What is unspoken is that the whole enterprise of staffing salons is intricately tied with human smuggling. It will come out in the wash, but the owners of the salons aren’t really paying the workers —they’re paying the people-smugglers who provide the workers in bulk.

Wages-and-hours type actions will usually just calculate what the workers are owed based on the minimum wage, time worked, plus differentials like overtime.

It wasn’t just cheesy. I remember it as the garbage I had to watch because everything else was considered off-limits to me. It was torment.

I’m such a buzz kill, but what killed Spider-Man 2's vibe for me —and I understand it’s so petty— is exactly the scene you have above. There was no reason for him to get that fucked up!

I never made it all the way through the series as a kid, but holy fuck you are right —this was too traumatic for me to make it all the way through…

This accuser in this particular case is Andrea Contand, former athletic director of Temple University. Not only did Bill Cosby sit on the board of Temple University (he only resigned when the writing was on the wall), but Bill and Camille have a joint trust endowing the university with scholarships.

The conspiracy theory demographic is really the group of people on the internet who have both absolute skepticism in what they view as mass media, but also the most credulity toward something they view as speaking distinctly to themselves as individuals.

I think that’s actually putting it too mildly. The notion of “laissez faire” capitalism as Libertarians put forward is always a thinly disguised confidence trick, securities fraud, or protection racket.

Fashion in American politics is a curious paradox where you’re talking about people who are photographed and video’d more often than celebrities because they serve a legal function, and yet they’re expected to have very little flair at all. Tiny deviations from the average are magnified by how often you’re in the…

Let E.T. tell you about this place...

I don’t know about these days, but when AJ got started it mostly poached journalists from the BBC World Service’s Arabic language operation. The reporters are mostly cosmopolitan and have no real agenda except to gather and distribute information —the same fucntion they served at the BBC World Service.

Variable speed is a neat feature in the reverse, too. I sleep to the Sleep With Me Podcast (which is designed to just be boring background chatter), and reducing the speed to .5 is better than Nyquil

This to me is the real evil of the drug war. Because it really shouldn’t surprise anyone that cherubic faced kids end up on all sides of it —this is part of the nature of impulsive, stupid childhoods the world over. But because even low-level involvement in drugs is a felony, it’s scandalous, and as a result we can’t…

I don’t want to mention the name of the victim —because it’s still a sensitive subject in the area and there’s bound to be someone who has the name in a Google Alert and they will totally turn this into something about them— but yes, this was that case on Investigation Discovery.

I understand what you’re getting at, the question was rhetorical.

She was 13 and police mention she was on a “teen dating site.” It’s not explicit, but it seems the police are suggesting the guy met her on there.

Thank you for bringing up some much needed perspective about the internet, re: the big chasm between complaints about “the ESJAYDUBAYUS” vs. the pervasive abuse of all manner of forums by all manner of predatory types.

...which is entirely in line with the idea of “honor” as having any sort of bearing on the justice system. And really, police are the big problem here. They could very easily tell the press that if they want any access, they have to help victims equally.