$61k-$87K gross? If gross then she’s taking home about 1/3 less a year, right. So she’s taking home $40k-$59k a year and its pretty goddamn likely she’s paying upwards of $3000/month rent if in NY. So $36,000 on rent & util, she’s got $4000-$24000 for groceries, transportation, family expenses, and all those ancillary…

I don’t just want him to be re-instated, I want them to sue the school district. I want the rule book to be changed and all faculty to have to undergo mandatory training.

You got to love Pomp trying to take a page out of the old playbook of ‘bet you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground’ GOP playbook of pointing out where a country is and having it boomerang on his moronic head when, yea she knows where it is.

Talking on the phone is not remotely the same thing as what’s going on here.

If you mean secured as in strapped down like a mental patient, yeah, we’re probably a ways out from having squads that can’t be easily fitted with that gear, but I’m fairly sure that almost all squads have either a plexiglass or metal grate separating the front and back of the cab. Something that would have easily…

That’s a new one to me, too. I have never, in my experience with police, or police shows, seen a handcuffed person being seated in the front seat of a squad.

I’m still trying to figure out the logic of putting someone you suspect of being under the influence of PCP* IN THE FRONT SEAT.

They keep bringing up Biden like anybody gives a shit. You mean to tell me that someone offered up a job to the American Vice President’s son because of who he was? Wow. Shocking. Why, it’s almost as bad as hiring your own kids to jobs they aren’t qualified for! Who would do something like that? Oh. Right. Mittens…

But so what if it looks like it?  If he is having an engaged conversation with the barista, answering her questions and looking at her, etc., that should be enough indication that he is listening to the person he is interacting with regardless of what’s in his ear.

I’m in my 40s and will walk down to Subway for lunch wearing ear buds, turn off my music while I’m getting my food, then turn it back on for my walk back to the office. I don’t think I’m being rude in any way because I’m responding to the people in Subway the exact same way as if I didn’t have ear buds in. There’s no…

If you can communicate your order, and hear the server, you’re fine.

Yeah I’m with you there.  It’s all in how the customer acts, not what they’re wearing.

Yeah the barista was the asshole there, sorry.  Especially if the customer only had one of them in.  As long as the customer is paying attention and doing what they should be doing as far as the ordering process there’s no reason to tell them to remove their headphones/ear buds.

“[The cashier has] feelings and hopes and dreams and aspirations.”

Ugh....true

I’m all for reminding people that Bryant was credibly accused of rape but I’m not going to get my panties in a bunch over a 21 year-old sleeping with a 17 year-old...

Sound.  The use of sound in this episode was tremendous.

I feel like some sort of trumpian cruelty and sociopathy has infected the world and we are seeing it manifest in this chest thumping moment of cheering the death of two children and 7 others and forgetting that a mother and her three living children must now try to deal with this. I can’t even imagine Vanessa’s pain…

With this development, every Republican Senator still blocking Bolton’s testimony is now knowingly and actively participating in furtherance of the very [Article 2] Obstruction of Congress cover-up at trial before them.