A recent survey found that nearly 10 percent of the nation’s companies allow pets at work. But finding commercial landlords willing to accommodate them can be a challenge.
But co-workers who are allergic to dog hair or just don’t like canine noses in their crotches? Not a problem.
Never mind, just watch the movie: After an outcry on social media, theater chain AMC Entertainment has walked back a plan to allow people to text during movies. The chain’s CEO had compared the texting prohibition to telling young people to cut their arms off.
Still, that’s preferable to getting their blocks knocked off by irate moviegoers sitting behind them who are fed up with the glow from their smartphones.
Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: “Confirmation,” a movie debuting tonight on HBO, concerns Clarence Thomas’ 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, which turned into a firestorm after law professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment.
The producers had to take some dramatic liberties. For one thing, Thomas is depicted as actually speaking.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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