A Trump presidency absolutely would provide moral encouragement to the next Joe Arpaio. You can’t recognize that deportation is“business as usual” without acknowledging the possibility that it could be intensified.

Why don’t you tell that to your neighbor, coworker or classmate who Trump has promised to round up and deport like a Jew. Go ahead and tell them that you don’t care whether they or their family is stuffed into a portable cell because if their freedom is just “business as usual.”

It was also the severity of the defamation. This is the first paragraph of the RS article that introduces Eramo. Without giving any information other than what Eramo’s job is, it manages to paint her as a conniving, deceitful, callous woman. And this is just her introduction. This is before the actual libel: The…

Thank you for reminding me who taught us all to smile with our eyes. I was such an ungrateful pupil till you reminded me of my debts.

As someone who sometimes used to work the telephones at a hotel, I have had to tell people that we were booked up and had no rooms left for the night. I once had a gentleman tell me that I was ridiculous, that the hotel was ridiculous and that the entire town was ridiculous for not having any rooms. He went on to tell…

In my experience that “manic cheerfulness” is passive aggressiveness. I’ve definitely done it before. But in my defense, it’s also the only way to cover your ass if you work at certain places and absolutely don’t want to be reported for, for instance, “not smiling with your eyes.”

I used to work in the hotel industry. I’ve heard customers complain that the staff didn’t “smile with their eyes,” and there was even one staff member that complained because they found out that one of the staff was a student working towards their teaching credential. Why was that a problem? They couldn’t really…