I see this and all I can think about is Andre Holland on The Knick (still mad he didn’t get an Emmy nom!).

No love for The Knick? IMHO it was so good! Really looking forward to October when season two comes out.

See this is why I have a hard time with Caitlyn Jenner. She was a rich, entitled douche before the transition, and now we’re just supposed to drop everything and fawn over everything she does? You can respect the journey without having to respect the person, right?

Republican candidate Bernie Sanders

Earned time is slightly different (and very legal), but still kinda sucks. Even though it’s often billed as employee-friendly because it’s “flexible” and not allocated, they often make it difficult to accrue, and use.

NYC absolutely does mandate paid sick days for all workers. If your friend’s employer is saying otherwise, she needs to have a talk with DCA. http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/about…

And I’m sure they employed zero critical thinking skills, so the thought process was something like, “Well these are swastikas, swastikas are only anti-Jewish, and this is not a synagogue, so: Not a hate crime.”

Meh. This is a pretty lame gotcha video. They don’t even have “pimp” costumes.

PLEASE, PLEASE STAHP GENERALIZING ABOUT NONPROFITS. While it’s important to call out shitty ones like this and people who insist on applying these stupid academic models, THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IS NOT A MONOLITH. You’re talking about a huge sector that’s diverse and varied and counts everything from the local soup…

Just like they did, are are still doing, with voting rights. They’ll obstruct until they are forced to act according to the law. And I think this issue is going to take active monitoring, too. I think the next step for HRC and other marriage-equality groups should be sending out testers and monitors to make sure…

For my SO and I it’s anxiety. We both suffer from severe bouts of anxiety, which, of course, is hard when one or the other of us is in the throws of an episode, but the upside is that there is a kind of empathy between us that didn’t exist in my previous relationships with people who hadn’t experienced it. While it’s…

Smoke a little weed and take a shower with it

And for a song about having mortal enemies, it makes little sense and is thus amazing.

Gothamist has some great photos of early birds this morning; I love the ones with the sanitation worker and the dad playing soccer with his girls (I think the one in blue is also the young lady in the last pic above).

Why? It’s a livelihood. Personally, I have more respect for strippers than most people who work on Wall Street.

Everyone needs to read Nikole Hannah-Jones work for ProPublica’s series “Segregation Now”, particularly relevant to this convo is her piece “Living Apart”. See also, her interview about the piece on This American Life.

Gold is just the starter-Amex. How else will his parents teach him about responsibly and the rewards that come from working hard for what you have?

I was home sick last week, and wound up watching this doc on Netflix called Playground. It was made by a woman who set out to make a doc about international pedo sex-tourism, but while doing research was shocked to find how much exploitation of children, especially girls and young women, was taking place here in the…

I spent last night catching up on Poldark, so I’m pretty sure the only way to truly settle this is with an actual duel.

Bear is not totally without status; his family is titled and his dad was an MP (I think; he’s a politician of some sort).