He does sound like a total dick.
"The question is whether the plaintiff was fired simply because he was wasting people's time and bothering them in ways that would have led him to being fired regardless of whether it was about religion or whether he was treated worse based on the religiosity of his beliefs," said Volokh. "If he can show that, then he's got a good case."
If it was based on his religion and he wasn't bringing that into the workplace in such a way that would have had him banninated (okay, fired) even if he believed in a supreme platypus or Higgs Boson, then bad on JPL. But you can't try to shove your religion down people's throats in the workplace and claim that's just religious freedom. It's not.
I really don't understand ... people. I was writing more but I can sum it up with just not understanding people.
I mean, I'm sure he was in a PhD program before he went on Big Brother the first time, but he's got to be a professional reality show contestant at this point, after two seasons of BB and now this.
Having been in a PhD program... well, I'd probably still pick that over two seasons of Big Brother, but then I have an abhorrence of being on television.
I just got back from Madison, and gosh darnit, I am just wiped out from the driving and the moving and sorting and packing stuff. I'm glad my sister drove from Clintonville to Madison, or I'd be even more wiped out.
I am obviously not a 20 year-old guy anymore.
Also, what would you do if you found a kitten with a hand-grenade? That was the question my youngest son Mason asked my sister.
My sister said something about seeing if the pin was still in the grenade and then finding the kitten's mommy.
Both my sons are obsessed with kittens. And explosives and guns and bazookas....
Throw the grenade, not the kitten.
How angry is the kitten?
I passed that question on to my sister. Sadly, we got back to Madison to find Mason has the flu, so he might not be up for answering the query.
Have online comment sections become 'a joke'?
In the early days of the Internet, there was hope that the unprecedented tool for global communication would lead to thoughtful sharing and discussion on its most popular sites.
A decade and a half later, the very idea is laughable, says Gawker Media founder Nick Denton.
...Don't read the comments?
I read the comments section of the Salt Lake Tribune--and post there!--because it gives me hope for the intelligence of Utah. The Trib is the "liberal" paper, and the prevalence of a more liberal view is what allows a smallish market like Salt Lake to support two daily newspapers. The other paper, the Deseret News, is owned by the LDS Church--or their business arm, in interests of being fair to the church's own declarations--and is known for a filtered, to put it kindly, worldview.
The DNews comments section is heavily moderated, and the Trib's is as well, though not nearly to the same degree. The pack of wolves on the Trib resent both the moderation and the recent change to allow only Likes on posts. It was nice to be able to Dislike some posts into oblivion, but there is value in seeing the vitriol, and the moderators will yank a post--or a poster--if they get truly awful.
