I work from home when not travelling, and fully admit that Dr. Phil has been occasional background noise.

Fuck this man and his entire family. He is a victim blaming, enabling, Jesus peddling, masculinity worshipping, asshole. Now he peddles his familys shit incessantly, and also introduced us to the Bible thumping TD Jakes. And fuck Oprah for foisting yet another phony into our midst.

Not to mention that depending on the size of the company, it is very likely that HR already KNOWS LW doesn’t fit in the corporate culture.

Well done. As a companion piece, I highly suggest folks head over to will’s Jamboroo on Deadspin: https://deadspin.com/weve-forgotten-how-to-fear-1821497982

I would rather people just said that outright. Even here, people have said it is because THEY feel great to see their kids happy, who will not remember their own happiness.

I really don’t get the impetus of parents that spend an exorbitant amount of money for a vacation for children that won’t remember a thing about the experience. Its one thing to take a toddler to a play, the zoo, a kids concert, etc, but to take a two year old to a theme park where they can’t even ride most of the…

It won’t outside of people that are close to the family or want to “please” them.

Streep only said she was not aware, which if ANYONE would be in the dark about the lower rungs, it would be Meryl Streep. Just exactly how recently do you think she has even had to read for a role?

“I always thought it would be rather AMUSING if there were a libation flavored with...CITRUS! Can you imagine such a thing?”

Same here, but I do take umbrage with the 45% tax rate on our bonuses. It feels like a backhanded compliment to see “see, this is what they REALLY were giving you, but THIS is what you wind up actually receiving”.

 II mentioned this in the AV Club post, but it bears repeating: It means the world to me that Sasha chooses a full on intellectual woman as her persona. Granted, it’s one not far from who she is IRL, but Ru rarely rewards the type of drag Sasha does. The brainy artsy NYC types tend to do well enough, but rarely make…

It is a million hours later, but I just had to reply to your awesome post.

Pictured: The Protagonist.

Kardashians? Kanye? Materialistic?

The whole “Merry Christmas” debacle is a perfect illustration of how sociopolitical discourse has degenerated in the United States.

Exactly. In the French case in particular, it also swung back during the first and second Restorations. The tricolor was out of fashion; the Bourbon white was back. Even Marie Therese was chastised because she wore the toques of the English and was not, at least in fashion sense, celebratory of the restoration of the…

I am not an immigrant, but my mothers side of the family holds their Polish roots VERY close. They all immigrated in the mid 1800s, but moved to a little Polish enclave that to this day uses it as a second langauge. My grandmother and mother are fluent and I am getting there, though I swear I was better in my…

Marriott is Mormon business done right, man.

At a Marriott, you get a good chunk of points per stay and booking a free night uses a surprisingly few amount of points.

Protip from someone that spends WAY too much time in Marriotts: