So the “victory” here is that 2 black Aramark employees got fired (it’s unclear who the 2 employees were, but it doesn’t say that it was the Head Cook, so I’m assuming it’s the cooks who the Head Cook directed to put together the menu), because they put together a menu they were directed to put together with no…

Aren’t white supremacist groups “gangs”? Their members and adherents routinely commit acts of violence against others, often resulting in deaths. Not sure what the actual definition of “gang” is—perhaps gangs are motivated by money (from illegal sources) rather than ideology, but then the FBI declared Juggalos to be…

Capitalism still seems to be the best and most successful system when compared to all of the others that came before it. Socialism and communism are prone to extreme corruption, and have not (in practice) proven themselves able to deliver everyone a decent standard of living (although they can guarantee everyone a…

Not to let the dems off the hook for this, but they do face a real quandary here. Americans support the idea of legalizing DREAMers/DACA recipients the same way they support the idea of world peace, but where it falls in their actual list of priorities is pretty low and they’re not willing to give up much to get it. …

Why is Homeland Security Investigations even a thing? Most of the cases I’ve seen them bring are things that would typically fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI, DEA or Secret Service (the part that deals with counterfeiting) and often don’t involve anything related to borders, or protecting said borders, with the…

This makes a lot of sense. Union-Company relationships have typically been strained in the US, with each taking on an adversarial role against the other, and either side can probably legitimately claim that the other “started it”. Having unions be more focused on the long term health of the companies their employees…

This is probably the most common offense I see in NYC, and it always bothers me. I don’t know why, it just does. I’m not saying they deserve to be arrested and prosecuted, which is too harsh (although turnstile jumping is a form of stealing), but there needs to be some penalty or consequence for turnstile jumping.…

But what else is it that makes this all work? Paying people more can often be generally good for the economy (your spending is my income, and vice versa), but many unionized industries in the US have not typically fared well—namely the auto industry. I’m sure there are plenty of reasons for this, and many of them are…

Somehow it’s always the darlings of the media, those they’ve built up as exciting and interesting people who are also masters of their craft and paragons of inclusivity, integrity and authenticity, that end up being the ones that go down for doing this stuff. There are plenty of “boring” people out there that run…

Even worse than most people’s understanding of slavery in America, up the end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13th and 14th amendments, is most people’s understanding of the period directly after, through reconstruction and the failure of reconstruction. Most people just assume that slavery ended and that was…

Funny—when I read the book, I didn’t make anything of the comment about Haley spending a lot of time with Trump on Air Force One. At best, I figured it was normal that the UN Ambassador would be spending time with the president, and at worst, perhaps it was just her careerist ambitions or even the status quo for this…

I can’t wait to see the attack ads republicans are going to air on this—they’ll be a new low that will probably make Willie Horton look like Mr. Rogers. Getting above that 60% threshold is going to be difficult (even among the people who who look at this issue as whether or not felons should have the right to vote…

Schumer kinda sucks, but he and Pelosi are who we’ve got right now (some things never change). However, he probably did the right thing politically, because most Americans both believe that DACA recipients should be allowed to stay (with obvious exception for criminals, etc) with a path to citizenship, and also that…

I thought the CFPB was a good thing under Obama/Warren/Cordray, but I could be OK with all of this, so long as there’s an understanding that the next time we have a financial crisis, and a bailout, the CEOs and executives (except for any whistleblowers) get absolutely nothing, and those that committed crimes go to…

Is Jeff Sessions picking his opponents based on their height relative to his own? Seriously this seems like a waste of time and resources for the government to get involved in this fight when a majority of states have already legalized marijuana in some form.

I still don’t understand how they got away in the first place, considering that times square is one of the most surveilled and patrolled areas of the city. I can only imagine what they’re going to be charged with—assaulting or attempted murder/manslaughter of an officer, and who knows what else.

Generally not a fan of corporate welfare, but this at least seems better than spending a ton of money to build a football stadium that will produce a lot of temporary jobs and few permanent ones. Wherever HQ2 goes, it will probably greatly benefit that place. Still, the states/cities clamoring for this are engaging…

Chris Rock dealt with that first part years ago, about certain people who “always want credit for some shit they supposed to do”, and “brag about some shit a normal man just does...like, ‘I take care of my kids.’ You’re supposed to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? ‘I ain’t never been to…

It won’t, at least as long as it’s still federally illegal, unless a state bill specifically prohibits firing someone for testing positive (since a positive test only shows prior use, not intoxication), and even then, there will probably be an allowance for companies to fire workers that perform certain kinds of work…

While the book may contain some swipes at welfare, at least they’re coming from someone who saw them up close and lived among them for a long period of time. At least they’re being directed at white people for a change, and at the idea that being on “disability” for extended periods of time is necessarily different…