I think that the “policy” that the security person was trying to uphold is one that states that manual laborers (janitors, maintenance people, etc.) and deliveries are supposed to enter via the loading bay. The reason that he was fired is that there’s nothing inherently wrong with that policy, what’s wrong is assuming…

Wait wait wait, do you really mean to tell me that the medical school yearbook photo of Northam in blackface was uncovered in 2019 as in only last year?!?!? JFC these past 4 months have been the longest decade ever

I think you misread - the story doesn’t say that he’s a 21-year old kid with prior military service, it states that he was a “21-year veteran of the force”. I.E. he’s been a cop for 21 years, so very much not a brand new officer

If Trump were to start wearing a facemask and actually encourage the dumbshits that worship him to do the same, and we ended up with 90%+ people wearing facemasks in public, COVID would be all but gone from America by election day which alone could be enough to win him back enough republicans and (self-proclaimed)…

We’re working within the framework that we have. It may be unconscionable that these weapons of war are in the hands of these absolute fucking clownshoes but it is technically legal for them to possess and even brandish them. It is definitely illegal for them to be pointing them at people who are peacefully walking…

First of all, the statement doesn’t say that:

it was fat, drunk, and stupid, not lazy, but close enough for government work

The problem with that approach, as satisfying as it may seem on the surface, is that we (white people) will not actually bare the blunt of the consequences for fucking up cops. Either a) we don’t even get arrested for it because they pin the blame on a completely innocent non-white person, or b) even if we do get…

Chicago Jew here and, uh, the cRc is off it’s fucking rocker if they’re actually recommending that. If that’s entirely necessary to be able to call a strawberry kosher than no one that keeps kosher should eat strawberries. You should never wash fruit (berries or otherwise) in soap - unlike the plates that you wash…

He’d probably find it pretty cool, because he’s probably not a black man and is definitely not active with the NAACP and thus finding a bulls-eye taped to his fence wouldn’t seem nearly as threatening to him as it very legitimately does to Mr. Caldwell.  

I understand the argument you’re trying to make, but you’re missing 3 key points

If (and, unfortunately, that’s a massively big if) president dumbfuck were to ever stand trial for the litany of crimes that he has committed while in office, there are a multitude of reasons why that trial would be held in federal court, not a state court. Given that the prior ruling only allowed for state trials to…

I mean, FFS, during the fall of 1997 when Pippen was rehabbing after his ankle surgery (which he had late because he didn’t want to fuck up his summer, such a great fuck you to Jerry Krause), dude literally demanded a trade and insisted he would never play for the Bulls again. Yet the Bulls still managed to keep it…

Eating the rich was a more tenable idea 100+ years ago, before it was fashionable for wealthy people to have nutritionists and personal trainers and whatnot. I.E. back when having a muscular / toned physic denoted physical labor (i.e. being poor) and rich people were mostly fat and had like gout and other such…

I don’t think there’s an official mandated policy on it here in Chicago like in the Bay area, but I went to both the Trader Joe’s and the Whole Foods that are closest to my apartment on Wednesday and both of them were forbidding people from bringing in their own reusable bags. They were also not charging the 7 cent…

You hit the nail on the head re: Colorado, it had the exact same issue as Utah and parts of CA like Tahoe - they waited way too long to shut down the ski resorts, and as a result not only did the small towns where those ski resorts lie become major hot spots but it also fostered the spread as wealthy vacationers…

My best friend is the brewmaster at a small kombucha brewery in suburban Chicago. During the current stay-at-home order the brewery is allowed to stay open since as a food/beverage distributor it is allowed to claim to be an essential business, but the owners have smartly decided to close the tap room. He’s still…

Loath as I am to praise the NFL, doing a simulcast on Nickelodeon with that broadcast being specifically geared towards kids is actually kind of brilliant. Youth participation in football is down (and will very likely only continue to drop) as parents become more and more reluctant to let their kids play a sport with…

I have to assume that Idaho Republicans thought (hoped) that the passage of these bills right now would be lost in the shuffle of the global pandemic and largely missed / ignored. Don’t let them get away with it

Maybe that’s the issue - maybe he’s trying to award the ventilator contract to one of his fucking hotels or something