Vienna is not a shit hole and many of the Western kids running off to ISIS are neither under-educated nor poor. There are a ton of factors at work.

That’s my impression, too. Teenagers are very very easy to mislead, because they often think of themselves as smarter and more enlightened than their parents or guardians. Some of them are more vulnerable because they don’t feel like they “belong”, and then here comes this stranger online who convinces them that they…

Whatever happened to doing drugs and fucking boys?

This is really sad. I hope they are able to confirm either way for the sake of their families getting some closure. And before the asshole pile on starts, please everyone remember that teenagers are still SUPER IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN. They might like to think they know everything and make great choices, but, they…

i don’t like typing the word pubic ok.

So he became Hemsworth the greater by eating all the others?

This is a relevant question. I’ll be running the Recipe Hub (this also means I will be writing recipe posts once per week. Pray for mojo) over there, so you can go there directly if you want, but anything I post will automatically jump to the homepage. Wonkette’s platform doesn’t work quite like Kinja, where things…

Here’s how the call between Pinkham and the people at Wonkette went in my head.

hiring a cis actor to play a non-binary individual

No I just dismissed it because it came before “but”, and then you went on about why you wouldn’t find the sources accurate or appropriate or enough anyway.

So you asked for sources that you dismiss out of hand immediately anyway, that makes sense.

And if they objected to it, why couldn’t his manager have spent five minutes of her time saying “hey, Jerry, the store policy is that you can’t take cans left inside the store. Sorry about that, but it’s policy” and then Jerry doesn’t do it again, even though it’s a stupid rule.

They got to be a behemoth corporation because of their willingness to scam, cheat and lie.

This was my read as well. I once was let go from a receptionist gig on day 87 of the 90-day trial period. My weekly reviews had been exemplary until it came time to bring me on permanent for $2 more an hour and health insurance, when on day 87, I apparently gave the company Prez a dirty look (I didn’t even see him…

My day job is in a state’s unemployment agency. By law, I can’t provide specifics, but I’d guess that at least 40% of the true WTF stories I have involve Walmart.

Is it true that kitchenette is leaving Jezebel? That, and maybe one or two articles a week, is why I visit Jezebel at all. That's shitty.

I’m thinking that, compensation or no, they were looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, to fire him before his probation period ran out. I mean, Jesus Christ. It’s an insane distinction to begin with, but a reasonable manager could just have said, “Hey, just so you know, this is against store policy...just return the $2…

I know. Are they saying that the parking lot isn’t their property? It seems deeply weird and arbitrary.

I suspect they just wanted to fire him and manufactured a reason to do it.

This is so terribly sad to me. I’m not sure if I am just in a particularly morose mood, but I just can’t with this.