Hagerstown, Maryland
Jerry Brooks is initiating a class action suit against Emerald City Comicon. He alleges the convention broke Washington state employment laws. They used volunteers to do tasks normally performed by paid employees. The convention called these volunteers “minions.” Emerald City Comicon did not pay minions. Legally, they were not in a position to take advantage …
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced today that Keith Morrison, revered Dateline NBC correspondent, will be removed from the $20 bill. In his place, Harriet Tubman, a woman who has never appeared on Dateline NBC, will replace him. I don’t know what I think about this. On one hand, Keith Morrison is a national treasure even though he is …
Former child actor Wil Wheaton hosts a YouTube show called Tabletop. The show features Wheaton and three or four guests playing a board game, the type of specialty board game one might buy at a specialty game store. In the videos, you see Wheaton and his guests, usually D-list celebrities, playing the game, presumably correctly. …
Today is Memorial Day, the one day a year we officially recognize the ultimate sacrifice many, too many, military men and women paid in service to our country. I spent over nine years in the United States Air Force, and in that time, I personally knew only one person who paid that ultimate price. His …
Bryce Harper admitting that he wasn’t focused in Hagerstown for a substantial amount of time was a dumb thing to say.