This is “speak(ing) in great detail”? It’s nothing than banal and retrodden neoliberal platitudes. I get that people are happy Le Pen lost, but let’s not turn this empty suit and technocrat into some avatar of liberalism like this site does with Merkel. It’s embarrassing and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of…

I understand where you’re coming from and mostly agree, but there’s nothing bland or centrist about radical neoliberals like Macron.

Here’s where you lose me. Uber drivers are undoubtedly employees that the company disingenuously categorizes as “contractors” in order to shirk labor laws. They perform a service and are responsible for obeying the dictates of corporate if they want to make a livelihood. Additionally, Uber merely made minimal changes…

But you presumably have a degree, a work history, colleagues and supervisors who can act as references, and some sort of marketable skill, all of which can help you obtain similar employment in the future if you’re laid off or your company folds. All of which is a bit more secure than “I spent the last five years of…

Yep, exactly. Of course, when you needed time off, you were all of a sudden scheduled for 35 hours during the times you explicitly told the manager you had class. I also cried the first day after cleaning drains for three hours. That job is miserable and I can’t fathom how people stay there for an extended period of…

Anecdotes are not data. I worked at a super busy Starbucks in downtown Miami during undergrad. We averaged about a dollar per hour per employee in tips. I imagine it would be far less elsewhere.

Dude, no one is happy to see to you. Its fucking retail. You’re paid just enough to refrain from raising the black flag, start slitting throats, and burning the store to the ground. As someone who worked at a Starbucks during undergrad, she probably hates you slightly less than most customers, which is nice, but isn’t…

How on earth did you miss the opportunity to embed a Hawk Harrelson home run call, visiting team or not, on a series of posts meant to troll your readership? Give it up pal, and leave this to Marchman and Adler.

Off the top of my head, I know he’s proposed criminalizing adultery and banning the sale and consumption of alcohol in certain areas, which may not be explicitly religious dictates, but have their roots in religious tradition. Unfortunately, I lack the time to look into the manner in depth right now (grad school,…

I wanted to add this, because I think you made your point well, even though I disagree. I think we have a duty to criticize and oppose drifts towards religious conservatism in any government, whether Islamic, Christian, Jewish, or otherwise. Whether its Washington, Ankara, Beijing or elsewhere, religious political…

Ataturk would be rolling in his grave not for some supposed love of democracy, but because of Erdogan’s Islamist conservatism and erosion of the secular, relatively liberal, military-backed order. I have no love for Mustafa Kemal, being the grandson of a woman who fled Smyrna as a child during the Greco-Turkish war,…

This is probably the wrong (ex) Gawker site for a video game reference, but I assume this is what they have in mind.

I feel compelled to comment on these articles to ensure their longevity whether I have something to say or not.

2012 was the approximate point of descent. The Sox methodically blew a huge division lead in September by trotting out luminaries like the bloated corpse of Manny Ramirez and the decrepit remains of Kevin Youkilous while Robin Ventura stared listlessly over the horizon and handled his bullpen like a yeti with a Ming…

Thank you Marchman, for introducing the rest of the country to the irrepressible futility that is White Sox baseball. We’re taking my 6 month old nephew to his first game on Saturday and I can’t help but feel a tinge of responsibility for indoctrinating him into this angsty, masochistic cult.

So you’re just a selfish, morally bankrupt quisling? Should have said that from the start and saved everyone the trouble.

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”

Go on about what? Jesus, dude, you’re beyond help. Did you sell your other brain cell to get out of the greys on this website? Let me explain this to you in terms that you can comprehend. You decried racism using quotes from a notorious racist. When I called attention to the inconsistency, you, for some strange…

Lincoln had conflicting and problematic views on race that were emblematic of his time and place, but is ultimately judged by his actions like, you know, liberating African-Americans, shattering slavery, and saving the Union. On the other hand, Mencken lived during what is generally considered the modern era, died in…

Really knocked it out of the park there, pal.