This really deserves more stars.

Goddamit, I’m sorry. I blame it on being a stupid kid.

And White Collar! I learned that you have to be ridiculously hot to work for the FBI.

I literally just dropped my coffee cup. WHAT IMAGE HAVE YOU JUST PLANTED IN MY BRAIN

Well, I guess Bradford has no more ACL’s to tear, so...

WAIT. I thought he was protesting the military. Or the flag. Or Mom and apple pie and God. Or something.

Me too! My reaction was “Hoooo....BURN.” Also out loud.

I will be bitterly disappointed if a coach-and-four does not make an appearance forthwith.

O.O

I kind of hope it’s cultural. I really shudder when I look back at myself and realize how much I bought into those narratives back then. Even with my own personal history - which came with a heaping side dish of “well of course it was my fault” - would I have been likely to look at things this way? Back then,…

That’s really interesting! It’s been over twenty years since I worked in a criminal law office, but back then the logic was that the defense typically wanted *women* on the jury. Men, or so the logic went, would look at the victim and see wives, daughters, sisters, etc. Women, on the other hand, would look for reasons…

I’m from Pennsylvania and I approve of this plan.

Amen, brother. #cryeaglescry

I scrolled down and only saw the initial quote and pic at first. I giggle-snorted so hard I choked. Excellently played.

Indeed. I am 50 and am hoping to finish mine before i die of old age. MadScientist is my folk hero. :)

I feel this. When I was a wee one, in my parents’ kitchen, my mother took a pot off the stove and turned her back for less than five seconds. In that time, I managed to wriggle out of my high chair and make a break for the cooling burner. I was, apparently, attracted to the color red. Nearly fifty years later, I still…

One of the addiction counselors in my office put it this way: “America doesn’t have a drug problem. We have an *addiction* problem.* He meant that we spend so much time focusing our energies on restricting access to the drugs themselves and punishing people for accessing them, and little to no energy on understanding…

Those are jimmies. I WILL FIGHT YOU

You have that right to an extent - any business that can’t pay a living wage *can’t” exist in a free market in the first place. I will admit to being conflicted to some extent because the sector that will struggle with this is the non-profit sector. NPOs - especially the small ones - traditionally have quite a bit of…

I am exactly where you are, so I feel you. Haven’t had a raise in six years and make $48K. But if it makes you feel better, there’s a review provision baked into the law. Every few years (three, I think) a COLA is applied to that lower limit, so if your company won’t give you a raise, the federal government will!