Sorry Ford, this doesn’t even remotely meet my mobile entertainment needs:

In Vietnam it was called “fragging.”

Imagine a future where a cracked windshield costs $4000 to replace!

How Can The Clean Water Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?

Having just last month been unceremoniously, very unexpectedly, and without any prior discussion fired for something a manager misinterpreted, sat on for a week without speaking to me about it, and then just given my walking papers with no actual opportunity to defend myself — after nearly 4 years of me doing a hell…

I used to be a barmaid in a remote Australian town that had a large Aboriginal population and was so, so racist. The pub had two bars in separate rooms, connected by an opening behind the bar so the bar staff could move easily between them.

This is slightly off topic, and way too long, but it’s a partial scorecard...

I stood up for a person and for being a decent friend in general. One of my best friends now was being bullied by her “friends”at school. One of them told her that she couldn’t eat lunch with them because she wasn’t cool anymore. I heard this from my seat in class and got PISSED. I didn’t really know the chick at the…

I recently stood up for equal pay during a contract negotiation, in particular the fact that dividing new starts in six month periods meant half the intake will get no pay increment while half would. Come a month later my issue becomes official negotiation policy so we all get equal treatment. I will also be making a…

Being a Russian ship, I expect we’ll have dash cam footage soon.

Yes- THIS. I am in the business and I am constantly telling anyone who will listen about how much of their healthcare dollars go to stuff that has zero to do with actual care. 

Pedants of the world, untie! 

The company that they’re complaining about *is* the government insurer.  American business and government subscribe to the magical thinking that outsourcing stuff that you do every day will somehow save costs, by having someone else do it and tack on overhead and profit.

Just arrived in Vietnam.

This reminds me of a photo project someone did of taking photos of mothers very soon after birth. Let me see if I can go find it:

. Back when my brother was in the Marines there were few women in the Marines and he noticed two distinct types of women in the marines.

Arrested today, Supreme Court justices 20 or 30 years from now.

Cars keep getting more expensive, the amount of money/loan payments are going to keep getting more expensive. The problem is wage growth not matching or exceeding consumer goods.

The only worse thing is dancing around his fucking obvious heterosexuality, like they’re afraid to offend the straights. Did you know that ninety percent of American crimes are committed by heteros? That’s not even counting fashion crimes.

when conquering iraq didn’t lead to joyous VE Day-style parades in the streets of new york and baghdad, they figured they’d try something else