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1. about 14 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   She has really learned the Mantra well! In fact they now know that women who are neither married nor have kids end up generally making 13% MORE than men in the same position!! So the real problem isn’t Gender but rathet the Life Choices one has made. If one wants to be married and have children; then why should a business have to pay her the same when it is already making more work for those who aren’t leaving early to pick up kiddies? And a pregnancy and birth often mean finding a temp to take over… I think businesses would be happy to pay equally to those who signa contract where they promise not to marry or have kids. If they do, then they revert to a different pay scale as it shouldn’t be up to the bosses to pay more and to the workers to do more just so she can follow her personal choices.The reason I say this is that men are always being blamed for women"s unhappiness, but in a company men usually work longer hours, and don’t het all the perks of leaving early or taking several months off because tehy want to do something special. The ones who really lose out are the men and women who aren’t married and don’t have children. They get the same pay but none of the perksYet it is thewomen who are always complaining.

2. about 2 months ago on Ben

   I suspect it is a bit like kids eating dirt. It improves the body’s immunity. Being too clean and sterile is not natural and in the end can create more problems. Unless someone has a highly infectious disease like smallpox (already eradicated)… leaving the lid up is NOT as bad as you are making out. For at least three generations, people didn’t really bother with this entire toilet seat mania… and they and their children got along just fine. In many public washrooms there isn’t even a lid, and the population is burgeoning nevertheless. Now it has become one more thing to be ordered around about… either for health or ""because I’m a woman, how dare you not respect my needs" blah blah…The real problem is not for one’s health, but a psychological one.Women LOVE to feel that they are controlling everything in their environment. It reassures and makes them feel stronger. It’s like the lady who orders a salad, then gives a ten-point list of how to make it, what to use or not use, and becomes as big a headache to the serving staff and the chef as she probably is at home. It’s power-tripping… no more, no less. Why not at least admit it?

3. about 2 months ago on Ben

   If it is well cooked, at least he dies happy!

4. about 2 months ago on Ben

   The problem with women is that they are often mothers, and get used to ordering the progeny around, expecting and getting compliance. Then they treat the men like that too. I’ve known men who are neat and tidy, and women who leave their bedrooms (if not the rest of the place) looking like a cyclone hit it. It is rare that men in such conditions will nag, but women almost invariably do.Somehow, especially nowadays, women expect to get everything their way. It always has to be on THEIR terms, while they pretend that it’s a man’s world so that they can get even MORE control by bi*ching about it! My solution: if you really want the home to be tidy with everything in its place, then do it yourself and keep quiet. Men are always handy for other things, like cutting the grass, cleaning the car, often doing the shopping (or at least helping with it) – doing the heavy lifting, and generally being the one to go downstairs at 3AM if there are strange noises in the house.They are usually the ones who have to work long hours and put up with sadistic bosses and office politics (and keep their mouths shut) while the ladies have taken off years to look after the kiddies. (Once the kids are in school, unless they go back to work, have plenty of time for coffee clatches and yoga while the men are still putting up with the stresses of office life. Then they go home and get MORE nagging? NOT fair! As a retired man I notice that during the day 80% of the people out shopping, running, sunbathing in parks or the beach and quietly reading a book in cafés are invariably women… and I doubt very much that the dearth of men out and about during the day is because they are at home watching sports on tv. Nope: they are working themselves into early graves while the ladies (except single mothers) generally have it easier; not always, but generally.

5. 3 months ago on The Born Loser

   Maybe it would help to speak grammatically? “A positive attitude” = ok. “Think positive” is not… “Think positvely”… AAAAAH!

6. 3 months ago on Mike Lester

   If the shoe fits… There is a reason Trump pretends he knows nothing about Project 2025.

7. 3 months ago on Gary Markstein

   Then again, where did most of the toxic rhetoric , and violent threats originate from? You reap what you sow, Trumpists!

8. 3 months ago on Joe Heller

   Anyopne with half a brain should have seen this coming; She should have recused herself right from the start for conflict of interest or be taken off the case by higher-ups; There wasn’t a chance in hell that she would do an honest job of it.

9. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   You didn’t say what kind of work you were in. A receptionist or clerk at a hotel, of course would need to be neat and tidy and lacking visible tattooes. But a reporter? Especially the kind out on the streets writing about what he sees around him… the scruffiness would probably make him blend in so that he could watch without people really paying attention. Context changes everything!

10. 3 months ago on Clay Bennett

    What is the most frightening is that they show it openly as if it is not something worth being ashamed of! Which shows that they are supremely confident that the average Republican would agree to and vote for such a program…It shows just how perverse and degenerate the Republicans have become, and why ithere s little hope left for America (not to mention so many other countries who are now following the Republican example religiously.

    When the Congo and other African countries change their legislation into draconian death penalties for gays – after being visited by American Evangelicals who almost certainly paid them bribes to do those changes – the exportation of Republican tactics, dirty tricks and immoral hypocrisies is becoming ubiquitous.