I would love to see a bunch of Republican Senators getting together in one of their townhouses like a bunch of high-schoolers to try getting high for the first time (or for some of them, “the first time”). Jeff Sessions too.

I know chefs and cooks who have been arrested for carrying their knives, including in one famous case, a chef who was arrested right outside of his restaurant.

And this is also why nobody wants to manufacture in America, especially California.

Fox News, the old-man’s Breitbart.

A really good CEO doesn’t even need expertise in a particular field (although it’s good to have)—they just need to know what they don’t know, be able to listen, and be able to recognize and surround themselves with people who are smarter than they are. Once they’ve done this, they need to motivate and support these…

I think it’s also important to understand why so many workers out there may have unfavorable opinions of unions/being in a union. Perhaps they need to rebrand and figure out how to get more millennials interested in unionization, which also may include radically changing the way they operate—as far as I can tell,…

I don’t really understand how a folding knife that can be quickly opened is any more dangerous than any other type of folding knife or non-folding knife (assuming similar blade size/shape)—all of which can still cause serious injury, and all of which can be concealed (whether in a pocket or sheath) and deployed rather…

I would guess that age discrimination is probably the most prevalent form of outright/overt discrimination in the workplace, in terms of hiring, firing and promotions. Yet it’s the one that is talked about the least—perhaps because there are legitimate (although still illegal) reasons for doing it in many cases,…

I mean, I guess it can feel like discrimination if a more qualified non-white person gets a job, promotion or admission to college that otherwise would have been yours in like 1960—the golden era of white mediocrity. You know, because nobody ever wants to admit their mistakes or that someone else is better than them…

I’d be more worried about Uber than Tesla. Tesla has developed a lot of technologies that are valuable to other companies as well, and could just as easily make it as a battery company (which in essence, it already is, as well as a solar panel company). Their cars are generally liked, and have a certain cool factor to…

I’d imagine the flip side to this story (and many stories nowadays) is that once they found out it was already too late. It had been going on too long and they either knew or should have known, and therefore they were complicit. Once you’re complicit, you have strong incentives to play along, since there’s no real…

Aside from all of the other lessons here (if “don’t cheat on your wife” and “don’t sexually harass anyone, especially those that work for you” can be called lessons—since they’re pretty obvious), let’s add — “don’t name a company after yourself” to the list. It’s a really good way to make sure that whatever damage…

I thought this was one of those statutory things where the circumstances don’t matter, and only the fact that an event happened matters. Since they’ve admitted to having sex with her (and their DNA was found inside her), which is the only thing needed to convict them here (since the idea that someone in custody could…

or you just joined a crossfit gym

To the extent that anybody pays income taxes, no matter their income, it never seems like an insignificant amount of money to them. I’d never thought about these other undertones of race and class, which are valid, but calling it “public money” (or “state money”) could also be dismissed as some kind of communist…

It seems like David Cross actually feels bad about the whole thing, whether or not he remembers it (or remembers it differently, because he often talks about doing psychedelics, which might cause him to remember things very differently than they happened). If he really wanted to avoid taking any responsibility, he…

It’s hard to start crying “witch hunt” when so far the only two famous men that have been really called out for this are Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, both of whom had been doing terrible things (nothing that might possibly be considered acceptable under any circumstances) for decades, serially abusing their…

Barro’s article actually makes a good point, at least in terms of concrete things companies can do to attack the problem. First of all, I think it’s fair to say that whenever there’s a lot of alcohol/drinking involved with a large group of people, there’s also sexual assault. While it’s not the ultimate or proximate…

Bounty Hunter? (Plus: you get to haul men around in handcuffs and carry bear mace.)

Stephens’ article didn’t seem like much of a defense of Weinstein—the complicity of others in no way absolves Weinstein of any guilt, nor does it excuse any of his behavior. And while Weinstein alone chose to behave this way, it was only made possible for this long by the many enablers around him, like the board of…