He had been doing it for like 3 years.

holy shit.

I woulda started with the legal action, son of a friend or no.

McPhee is sick now too. poor sick us.

I have just had some of the most amazing no longer passive aggressive pushback from the developer once known as incompetent.

She doesn't want to implement the websites the way we were told, because she thinks I made the decision. She wants to see the requirements document. I send her the requirements document, telling her that it's not going to help her, since it's what not how. She replies by saying she doesn't want to get fired for being part of rogue development, and she needs the architect to tell her how to do it...the architect almost hung up on me, he couldn't believe she was being so stupid.

She also wanted to know if my boss and the other developer knew I'd been talking to another programmer, and how they felt about it. She didn't think I should be talking to him, she said. She doesn't want me to be investigating the things I'm investigating.

I did snap at her. I feel good about that. Thankfully I remembered to remove my manager from the to: list.

Stay classy, Boston.

I woulda started with the legal action, son of a friend or no.

I'm trying to figure out what would have been the best course of action for this person. The main thing I would want to determine is my family was the only target of his behavior. I kind of think that probably isn't the case. So because of that I probably would want something to happen to him outside of dealing with it between families.

I think he also needs to have his computer use significantly curtailed and I would probably get him a burner cell phone too.

I would want to never have contact with him again and have an enforced restraining order, but beyond that, I'm wondering what would be "best" for the kid. He started all this when he was what 14 or 15? Jail doesn't seem right, but I'm not sure what does.

Scola,

when I saw Scott Brown scoff at Elizabeth Warren and the notion that her mother had American Indian heritage, I knew that all kinds of bullshit was being discussed by him and his staffers out of the public eye.

This latest crap does not surprise me at all.

This is why I get eye-rolly at my Boston area friends who are shocked - SHOCKED!!! at the racism in the oh so uncivilized South.

Not denying it's all over the place here, but also please come correct for your own community.

This latest crap does not surprise me at all.

Me neither.

I can totally buy that Warren repeated the story she'd always heard in her family, and likely checked the "Native American" box a couple of times along the way. She may or may not have known what that meant: to be Native is cultural, political, and/or biological, and how it's expressed and how that expression is acknowledged varies a great deal.

It's the sort of thing I can see happening in my own family. My brother-in-law's grandfather is said to have been Jamaican, although nobody's really sure, because he left his wife when his daughter was very young, and moved to Harlem and remarried. Based on that, my BIL could claim some African-American ancestry, although he was raised as a Jewish kid in Yonkers. There's no direct evidence outside a DNA test, and who's going to bother with that?

My point being that we cling to these unusual family stories, and I suspect Warren used it without ever thinking about political ramifications, because she never meant to be running for public office anyway.

In this political environment, I can't see anyone wanting to run for public office: every little thing you've ever said or done is going to be excavated and aired publicly. So few of us have a record pristine enough to withstand that kind of examination.

This is why I get eye-rolly at my Boston area friends who are shocked - SHOCKED!!! at the racism in the oh so uncivilized South.

Oh god, seriously? There are people who don't think Boston is racist???

Also, I'm shocked at Brown's new ads that keep on the Native American heritage thing -- I assume it must have polled well in some group? I just don't think it's a big deal at all.

checked the "Native American" box a couple of times along the way.

In the 70s, is my impression.