This. My question upon driving into a nice enough neighborhood in San Diego 20 years ago, and knowing what the home prices were: as we passed a Jiffy Lube, I asked "where in the fuck do THOSE guys live?" Imagine having an hour commute from your "affordable" shithole apartment well outside of SD just to get to your job at....Jiffy Lube.
We NEED guys who work at Jiffy Lube. Just like we need people to work at the Ralphs, and the dry cleaner, and the coffee shop in that same shopping center. Where is affordable housing for them?
That said, I've long thought that schools COULD use some of the land they have to create staff/teacher housing, providing both a compensation/benefit and giving themselves more flexibility and power to hire qualified personnel. Shit, fancy private schools do it. That's a tool that any land-rich enterprise could use, on its own.
AD Rhoades officially gone.
As for this:
According to sources, the allegations presented against Baylor AD Mack Rhoades are centered around his involvement in an outside incident that breaks school’s Christian standards rules Sources say this involves an outside relationship.
Well, we know that "non-consensual" relationships aren't a problem. Kinda makes you wonder about what is actually problematic for Baylor. Wait, maybe he was in a relationship with a younger woman and it WASN'T non-consensual or predatory, and the Baylor athletic code just doesn't want someone setting a terrible precedent like that?
I assure you, there is nothing that I can't be utterly pessimistic about.
The decline of good neighborhood tex-mex places? The costs of car ownership? The continuing use of kale as an ingredient in restaurant dishes? I can be a negative nancy about all of that shit.
Now, the ongoing ubiquity of yoga pants....there ya go, there's my ray-of-sunshine topic.
I gotta admit, I don’t know how federal immunity would work in this case, but at this point - in Chicago at least - it’s apparent that ICE has engaged in a criminal conspiracy to commit serial assaults against citizens of Illinois. They do not have immunity for violating the constitution, but is there any way for Illinois to bring state charges against ICE conspirators in federal court? I admit to having no idea if there’s any angle here - probably not, but this is insanely unprecedented. I’ve never seen a federal entity just go full-on at war against civilians, in violation of all laws and norms. Obviously, supremacy clause issues. But FFS, these are classic 18 USC 241 (conspiracy to violate civil rights) charges. A statute first written to deal with the fucking klan, and it works against the actual govt forces here. I know THIS DOJ won’t bring charges…but kick this motherfucker out and charge them ALL.
Shit, on paper, I'm a hall-of-fame QB, a sexual tyrannosaurus, and an advocate so good I'd make Daniel Webster swoon. I mean, I WROTE that paper, so I was gonna go all-in.
"FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!"
God I wish all those Elon knob-gobblers from back when, who lionized him as a champion of FREE SPEECH!!!! would show back up here to explain how "we have to fix Twitter's algorithm so it doesn't share any tweets from anyone left of center" is keeping with those ideals.
Here's a hint: Not a single one of these fuckers who ever said the words "free speech" believes even a little bit in the open marketplace of ideas. Instead, they believe that they should be able to say anything and everything they want with no consequence, AND both private platforms and the government itself should ban all speech they disagree with. They are fascist cocksucker pieces of shit and should fucking drink hemlock.
There's a 100% chance that HE has paid to get tasered in the nuts. And the person he paid is a mexican trans street hooker. Because like most Republicans, he is a walking pile of self-loathing contradictions.
Sounds like literally every single fucking Austin neighborhood group. Every one. No exceptions. All they offer is soft-pedals of variations of "no," without ever suggesting any credible, concrete, realistic alternative. Which means...fuck 'em. If all you do is bitch, and don't offer anything that is a real-world solution, you're just whiny noise.
Can at least one of them dress like Colette Valois, the super cute french stewardess character from Pan Am?
Because....I'm on board if that's part of the deal.
Goddammit. I want to see all of these.
"Tell my how Elon ranks among the world's pants-shitters."
"How good is Elon at sexually satisfying goats, compared to other goat-fuckers?"
"Is Elon among the world's best nosepickers?"
"Can Elon fit more objects up his ass than other people?"
Did Trump offer something in order to induce someone else to do something?
Then he was lying, with no intention of delivering.
Doesn't matter what we're talking about, both sentences above are 100% true, 100% of the time.
The hell of it is....that's an understatement, and isn't even a full list of all the bullshit shenanigans. It's a good summary para, and you have to keep those short, so well-done. But gotdamn....that you can say all that, and there's still MORE to say.
What a steaming pile of piss-covered shit the Trump DOJ is.
Somebody told her to use the ELMO, and she got confused and looked for a red muppet to tickle.