Here's the thing: If most of the people left her concert had a particular impression of her remarks, including the person tweeting for her on stage, I think she is at best dissembling about her intent. Second, she reportedly said she was "nervous" about her remarks and would see who her true friends were.

I think she's got some stuff to work through and it would be best for her to do it out of the public eye.

But she's made anti gay remarks before

Yeah, I saw some of those reports, too. I think she's really struggling, and I suspect the line between what she thinks and what her church thinks isn't as clear as she'd like us to believe.

Len, we should totes have a drug enterprise in the basement of an historic estate!!!!

We are, after all, a poor non-profit with a slashed budget that was already anorexic to begin with. Do rich housewives of New Jersey partake? We might have the market!

Today's hilarity with co-workers: our admin just told me about one of the other women at our company who came to work the other day wearing a corset. "Super-cute, but, y'know," she make the universal hand gestures for HELLO THESE ARE MY BREASTS. "And she said, "But Jillian wears a corset!" and I said "Yeah, but under like seventeen layers of clothes!"

I feel extra sad. Not only am I googling "how to deal with control freaks", but half the advice is for abusive relationships. What makes it extra sad is that, if this were a relationship, I'd be out the door. Maybe if my theoretical controlling boyfriend was paying me I'd stick around, too.

Timelies all!

Juliebird, sorry that your boss is being ridiculous.

I also want to note, in the case of the control freak, that I am of team mentality. I was in the Army, I drank the "there is no I in TEAM" kool-aid. And when I was hired into this job, the job interview included the paraphrased statement of "we are a small staff, and wear many hats" and helping everyone do their jobs was always the modus operandi, even if we in the hort dept. became resigned to that not referring to us.

Now I'm dealing with a very we/us them mentality, which, in a staff of nine people, only five of whom are full-time, is frustrating. Our Executive Director mops the coffee splashes off the walls and sweeps. We help each other. And nobody helps weed the garden, and I'm copacetic with that. Because we are also the only department that has hundreds of volunteers doing our shit for free.

I feel like a double agent, or whatever the arrangement is, trying to be a team player and be a loyal subordinate within our department.

So sequestration is taking its first bite at work: all travel authorizations cancelled, our annual spring symposium cancelled, annual calibration workshop cancelled, and training money is probably going to be frozen. Could be worse, but the two big events are in-house run, and kinda a big deal to the community. Ah well.

I had this image of marijuana being grown in the basement of a school and that's how the school was being funded.

I did too.

Further, I expected you to be interviewed on "This American Life" about your drug enterprise.

Sheer genius. I bow to your brilliance.

So sequestration is taking its first bite at work

Ugh, sorry to hear that. Sequestration is going to blow.

Wow. I was just reading a website's relationship advice that made Cosmopolitan look like Dworkin, and then I hit (no pun intended) #6 on their list of how to make your man feel like a man. Revolutionary, man. And I thought giving him "free reign" would be all it took.