Wow, they couldn’t have picked a worse day for my schedule if they’d tried. I’m very disappointed. I’ll spend my day trying to meet a hard deadline of 9pm for fiscal February close. That will be a thirteen hour workday, most of it undoubtedly spent arguing about advertising costs.

I read it for a college class shortly after it came out. It’s the most vile and disturbing book I’ve ever read. Twenty-five years later just thinking about it makes me want to throw up.

So does this mean she won’t have time to continue screwing with Michigan’s schools? Cause that would be a win for me.

I don’t buy that map. I have never seen a place with *fewer* restrictions on alcohol purchases than Michigan.

Exactly. We’ve reached the point where our best case scenario is that Susan Sarandon was right.

Well, what you were doing *was* illegal, so they had to fire you once they found out about it.. But they put you in a no-win situation, and that sucks.

This is what running a government like a business looks like. A CEO issues directives which have to be followed immediately, and then people on the ground struggle to figure out what that actually means for what they’re doing, and over the next few weeks you figure it out and fix it all retroactively. Which is fine,…

It is a story about the necessity of healthcare.

Did you not watch Wargames? The political implications of tic-tax-toe were at the heart of it.

I was surprised she didn’t mention that — if you were a Dwarf, you pretty much knew who you were going to support. Either Bhelen had set you up to be executed (if you were a noble) or Bhelen was the father of your sister’s child, which might eventually lead to that child being on the throne (commoner).

Part of it is that we become acculturated to the voting traditions of the places we grow up. If you grew up in a state where you can register to vote on Election Day, it won’t even occur to you to register months ahead of time.

The real problem is that elections in New York State are designed to depress turnout.

Texas remains a fabulous state to be *from*.

Yeah, I was using the caps as implied quotation marks. They certainly have a tendency to fall into their own orthodoxy, just not the one they were supplied by “the man.”

Yeah, that’s pretty much always been true — I remember my high school Govt teacher pointing it out in the 80's.

Yeah, AA was only really helpful for my wife when she was going to all-female or all-LGBT groups, because they were able to reframe a lot of that stuff.

In my industry we’re starting to see a move back to US production because “time to market” is becoming increasingly important, and shipping times are so long that it is more profitable to pay a little more for higher production costs and make it up in premium prices to consumers for being first. (Or more accurately,…

I don’t know if Sanders would have beaten Trump. What I do know is that it should have been obvious that Clinton couldn’t win.

I have Aspergers. If a rule is unspoken, it doesn’t exist. I also will never notice if something I do pains you if you don’t tell me.

So, to throw some nuance on this.