IMHO, the issue here is the mismatch between what Rubio has to say for the the sake of the nomination, and what he has to say period.

Trying to avoid gossiping, but I have to vent in sympathy with this sentiment.

These things are so kitschy, if they weren’t used for fundraising, you could easily do a bit of message jamming. Like this:

More appropriately: glitter bomb them, and then start singing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”

Since you bring up Facebook, I’d like to know —as someone who threw in the towel on FB and Twitter last year—if my read is correct, or if I’m off base: Sometime after the last U.S. election (2013? 2014?), one of the tweaks to the FB algorithm finally helped get rid of the anti-vax and dumb pseudo-satire/hoax garbage…

FYI, The Simple Dollar published this astoundingly tone deaf screed about why they should be allowed to underpay their domestic workers: http://archive.is/WdhQo

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.

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…

his PR company handled it pretty well.

My big worry arises out of the fact that my empathy kind of went into overdrive with the whole “bullying” scenario with the hockey stick —c’mon man, can’t a robot just do its job?— and then it promptly went away.

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.

I’m fairly certain that Deadpool’s success will make DC re-re-reboot Lobo.

The thing about Deadpool is that the source material itself is not weighed down by so much of a need to stay true to anything. With the Marvel and DC properties, you deal with the issue of telling stories with very conflicted source materials.

At my local movie theater the confusion was sad, because the kids were clearly too young to be of the “gonna trick mom into letting me see a titty filled action movie,” and the parents were Arab immigrants whose English seemed quite broken.