CNN reports that beginning in 2020, employers in the state can no longer refuse to hire a job applicant for failing a marijuana screening test, making it the first state in the country to enforce such a rule. And considering it’s perfectly legal in Nevada to purchase and partake in the green leaf, making it a…

Yeah, there’s a specific provision of the law saying that it doesn’t apply where contradicted by federal law - so federal laws or rules about contractors not using marijuana still apply to those people.

Without having seen the movie, I’m going to guess “Gimme Shelter.”

One of my favorite episodes of the old Justice League cartoon (there are a lot though) is the one where everyone thinks Superman dies, and then Lobo shows up to the wake, announces he’s there to replace Superman, and then fights everyone until they’re too exhausted to argue anymore about it.

It’s great, because…

I have not watched the show at all (or even read anything about it until now), but isn’t “time hopping wannabe hero” just Booster Gold?

The Hyde Amendment doesn’t just bar Medicare from paying for abortions - it bars any federal money paying for abortions.  That means Medicaid (a few states pay for abortions entirely with state Medicaid funds, but most don’t); it means federal employees, including the military; it means people in prisons and jails; it…

This actually seems like good news. Schur has frequently talked about how Lost was an inspiration for this show, and I’ve always been afraid that meant The Good Place could end up dragging on too long and losing all its impact. Four seasons is a nice, tight length that gives them just enough time to realize that…

I might be slightly annoyed with season 3 because I feel like they were saying that the absurd standards for admission to the good place showed one of the big inherent problems with thoroughgoing consequentialism as a moral theory, and as something of a Kantian, Chidi should have been all over that, but he never…

One thought I had (aside from how many Nazis are in these comment sections since Kinja happened) is that the Froggie James stuff makes a lot of sense if you think about him as another god. He’s the god of “black people getting murdered by racism” - the more often that happens, the more attention/worship/power he gets.…

I disagree with the “let’s never share information” bit. I thought they did a good job of having characters hold on to information for the exact right amount of time (given that they’re all teenagers who are extra insecure about their personal relationships due to their parents being supervillains) and then disclose…

The point of speculative fiction like fantasy and sci fi is that it’s a mirror that distorts some parts of reality in order to make it easier to think about other parts. Fantastic elements (like dragons and ice zombies) can serve as metaphors for real life issues (like climate change or militarism), and they create a…

Ordinary fuckin’ people.

I introduced them! I was sitting at the Copacabana one night with Danny Kaye and Bullwinkle (Bullwinkle had been working his way up through the club circuit, telling jokes and doing pratfalls), and I saw my buddy Lou Fishstein. So I wave him over, and Lou (Lou was “connected” as we used to say, to gentlemen of an…

I don’t think this is true?  I looked online, and she’s done a number of Democratic or left-wing things.  She endorsed Kerry in 2004, she’s criticized Trump, and in an interview about her OItNB character she talked about how the show highlights problems with prison privatization and bad immigration policy.  And (not…

RIP ODB

Speaking as an actual western lawyer, this is badly incorrect. For one thing, hearsay has nothing to do with this - most sexual assault cases boil down to one person’s testimony against another’s. This is the opposite of hearsay (a statement which happened outside of the hearing, and is unreliable because we can’t…

If someone is sexually assaulted, there are two tracks for redressing the problem. The first is criminal - report it to the cops, it goes through the normal system (or too frequently the cops/prosecutors just ignore it). The second track is civil. Under the Civil Rights Act, employers and schools have an obligation to…

- I’m gonna take this place down old-school, like back in the 70s when this city was a city. When we were giving Mayor Lindsay hell and Mayor Lindsay was giving Florence Henderson crabs and the Crabs were a street gang that threw live crabs at people.
- Is any of this real, Lillian?
- Maybe!

Al Jazeera is really bad at reporting about Qatar, but it’s pretty good at reporting about evil stuff that Qatar’s rivals do.  The fact that it has bad motivations doesn’t change the quality of the reporting, though.