Journals need an income to publish. There are editors, copy editors, review boards, IT people, software to pay for. Since they can’t - or shouldn’t - accept advertizing, paywalls are the only way to pay for getting the work out there. That doesn’t even consider the costs of funding research, which in the US is a…

Yes, sometimes you concede the out. Sometimes there’s no way you’re going to score, so the idea that taking out an opposing player instilled as competitive instead of simply destructive.

The biggest problem with this movie - all Danny Boyle movies - is that he stops short of asking the question that would make his movies meaningful. In this case the question is, “What happens when we, as a society, lose our collective memory? What happens to history, to art, to knowledge when we forget? What happens…

Everyone talks about busing as if it ever had a definition of success. Was it to end racism? It didn’t and couldn’t do that. Was it to create equal access to a decent public education? It didn’t and couldn’t do that. Was it to engage parents? It didn’t and couldn’t do that.

That BBC piece on Ivanka is crap. It’s fawning over her and presuming she did things there’s no evidence she’s done. It doesn’t even examine her claims of treating working mothers - you know, those women she & her company that steals designs abuse & underpay and refuse to provide healthcare for. And, if she is doing…

Iaccoca knowingly put a deadly car on the road, then, when caught, argued that it wasn’t his fault that the thing he knew would explode exploded, should have gone to jail for multiple murders. Instead, he and his despicable pal, Ronald Reagan, yell about individual responsibility then use taxpayer money to fix stuff…

Nearly half of all pedestrian accidents involve bicyclists.

Let us remember, the NY Times fired and no longer carries editorial cartoons because they’re controversial. They keep the dirtbags of stupidity, Brooks, Stephens, Weis, & Friedman and the editorial staff espouses all sorts of half-assed things & makes half-assed attempts at being corporately compassionate.

Scarring isn’t just physical. Just today I moved in such a way that I felt the deep tug of internal scars. Every once in a while emotions lead me back to the trauma. The surgeon didn’t need to remove my sex organs, there was nothing wrong, he just got a ton more money because insurers pay per procedure in the US. Oh,…

Harris set up Biden with her busing story. No one has noticed that she did this not to make a point about busing - which turned out to be remarkably counterproductive & wasn’t as simple as “racists are against busing” - but to wedge herself into a position to take down Joe Biden on his support for racists.

The Democrats have to consider POTUS and Congress. Harris, Klobuchar, Gillebrand, and the other white guys should be in Congress. The president dosne’t have absolute power, as evidenced by GOP puppeteer, McConnell.

I loathed Bridesmaids for the same reason I loathe The Hangover - they’re about incompetent adults who are really children and they’re mean. Crass isn’t the same as funny; without the right context the laughs just come from someone’s humiliation. When we laugh at videos of people getting hurt it’s out of nervousness,…

Apologies. You’re right. Your work is being billed by your boss & you won’t see any direct gain for your work, but someone is paying for it. The firms I worked in billed for work done by their “underlings” & their own work, so they could, in effect, bill for more hours than there are in a day.

Internment camp is a concentration camp.

As with executive assistants, paralegals can rise through the ranks to other titles in corporate legal departments or, as was the case with several paralegals I’ve known, their companies pay for other degrees -MBA, JD, MA- so they can change jobs. Unfortunately, the only people I ever saw offered those opportunities…

Attorneys bill every hour. No attorney is doing work that isn’t for a client, phone calls, emails, even research is billable. If you’re an attorney who doesn’t bill clients for every second, no firm will keep you.

That Booker charisma is about all he has. When in meetings he folds completely. It’s as if he gets energy from the people around him, like a charisma vampire.

It’s not just the “I was abused and look how great I am (never mind that I want to abuse others)“ position, it’s that the idea that abuse is strengthening. That crap “ what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” doesn’t count all the dead & damaged people lost along the way.

This is what is called “the cycle of abuse.”

What office is she running for?