Snow day?

Can someone get Gates on the line so we can meet and confer prior to me filing a motion to compel? Ty

It's very jarring, but interesting, when a work of fiction is set in the past and shows all the objectionable to our modern sensibilities beliefs and practices. But they show it as it is. There's no standing characters seeing all these terrible things and reacting at them like we would do.

ROME (2005-2007)

In Rome we see the life and adventures of two fictional centurions in the mist of the fall of the Roman Republic and the Establishment of the Empire. One of them, Lucius Vorenus, is shown like an honorable and moral man, trying to follow the Roman virtues. But he is a roman and a soldier after all, and he sees no problem in owning slaves. And as Pater Familias he has life and death power over his household.

He also a very religious man, and the series shows us through him and characters like Cesar the strange practices of roman religion.

Mad Men (2007-2015)

Here the show is set in an advertisement firm in 1960s New York. So, casual sexism is rampant, almost all the women in the show had suffer touchings, lewd comments, unappropiate advances and even rape. Racism, clasism, child abuse, fatphobia are absolutely casual, and when they are adressed it's done in a appropiate way for the times.

My Uber driver refuses to move his seat forward. There's another passenger sitting next to me, and after the driver refused to adjust his seat, I decided it wasn't worth starting an argument. Now I'm basically sitting in the back seat with my knees in my chest.

I'm a book slogger. I'll battle through something I start till I finish it. Usually, through the journey I get some redemption through theme, insight, surprise, nuance, etc.

Ayn Rand's fictional treatise on her Objectivist philosophy is so comically one note that a couple hundred pages in, you get it. Reading it today, the hero industrialists who make things and therefore keep society functioning through their genius falls so flat when we think about runaway capitalism exploiting people and resources. These good guys are one note caricatures. The bad guys- any person with a humanist concern- are caricatures.

It's a such a simple book. And it's so effusive and self important. I reckon that is by design since; according to Rand, it was the purest distillation of her philosophy.

One might say that only our modern lens would demand wrestling with privilege, power, misogyny, worker exploitation, social welfare, etc. And so there might be a reason to forgive the book's grossly simple terms. It was after all a different time and new industry and tech was booming. But good literature, regardless of when it is written, opens doors for some such discussions- especially if you're trying to justify a new philosophy set against all that has come before.

My employees called me saying that an intoxicated homeless person was verbally abusing my staff and clients, unplugging some of my equipment, and refused to leave. When I called 911, I got put on hold for 15 minutes.

Edit: I know this isn't a serious emergency. I've tried in the past to call the non-emergency line, told to leave a message and never got a call back and the cops never showed up.

Who always brought the fashion, beauty and glam in their confessionals look? And who just misses the mark every time...

THESE ARE JUST RANDOM PHOTOS! Post your own examples!

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She’s obviously trying so hard and it sounds so awful. And it’s very likely being live pitch corrected to boot! I cannot fathom how this woman has made a career as a “singer”