Again...this would not be a widely used mechanism.

Yeah, basically. I wish unions were different from what they are. I thought I specified criminality as a requirement for banishment...I meant to, at least. But I didn’t. My bad.

My problem isn’t with the NFLPA. It’s with organized labor generally. I’m not saying Unions ought to have a character clause that automatically kicks out anyone convicted of a crime in their personal life.

I’m pro-organized labor because it makes the best of a bad situation, but I do wish unions functioned more like a company and less like an attorney / paid advocate.

Well, he/she says he/she worked for the campaign seven years ago. The slip-up with the reporter just recently happened. So it’d make sense to say, “I worked there seven years ago, I just slipped up, and now this person is running again and I don’t know what to do....”

What about 2016?

Yeah, at first I thought you’d have to limit it to Clinton, a handful of Republicans from their presidential clown car, and any remotely big name (or even a small name in a swing district) from the US House of Representatives.

Oh, fuck off. The whining directed at me specifically is too pointless to respond to so I’ll address another one of your comments.

When I was 14 I worked for a McDonald’s. An elderly lady in her Sunday best came to the counter to complain about a mess of ketchup near the soda fountain, so I went over with a damp rag to clean it up.

It’s the best of the hot pot meats.

When an English cricketer sees this and decides to try adding actual petrol because his team needs a spark, it won’t be half as funny. Will probably be a bit brighter, though.

It’s not a major coincidence that the people most likely to criticize Emma and Anon above are often huge fans of Ayn Rand and cannot begin to imagine why a person might sacrifice their own comfort in service of unnamed others.

The liberal knee-jerk reaction that says “Sure! It’s all okay!” is just as dumb as the conservative knee-jerk reaction that says “No! Never okay! Missionary only!”

Agreed completely. I watched it for the first time in about a decade this Christmas with my whole family and actually laughed out loud. I was pretty damn drunk by the time the movie started, but still...It’s a great movie.

A Muppet Christmas Carol is my favorite childhood movie.

My mom signed up for one of these and she’s super excited about running it with a few of her coworkers while my aunt, dad and me cheer her on. She’s never been big on running but has done a fairly impressive job getting herself in better shape as she enters her 60s, though she suffered a fairly significant setback…

Pretty much. It was just a disappointing response, is all. This seems like a pretty perfect time for a bit of introspection; if you frequented one of these locations, you unknowingly contributed to a horrifically unjust system. Full stop.

I had to avoid the comments section when the story broke on Jezebel. Didn’t want to get myself banned. The fact that this wasn’t common knowledge already for the Jez community was extremely upsetting. So was the initial response, which appeared to be a mix of: “Well, I guess we should all be tipping more!” and, “How…

There’s “getting buzzed during a show and hammered afterwards,” and then there’s, “being hammered 24/7 because rock and roll.”

I had one of the 10.7% varieties before a boar roast at a friend’s Chicago bachelor party. First drink of the night, on an empty stomach because...boar roast. Did not know it was 10%, but I figured it out pretty goddam quickly.