I don't think that Spanish is worth less because it is in less demand. I think it's because there are more people in the US who speak Spanish, either bilingually from childhood or having studied it in school. If you look at employment ads for just about anywhere in the US, employers are looking for bilingual…

Isn't she also schtupping Putin?

I would think the best place to meet new people would be at the maternity ward of the hospital. Those people are pretty new- some are just a few hours old.

OK. That's what I get for trying to read stuff on the computer and serve as an indoor monkey bars for a toddler.

I'm also a lawyer, not a litigator. Why do you think it would be inadmissible. Doesn't that just pertain to the actions of government entities in collecting information?

I'm an immigration lawyer and attended a seminar on human trafficking a few years ago. There's often a secondary layer of sleaze going on at strip clubs. Coyotes bringing people illegally into the US often 'cull out' attractive young women and force them into prostitution. They often shuttle the women between…

So when he gets old, Superman becomes Alan Moore?

I'm a Tolkien nerd and overall science fiction/fantasy nerd and never had any interest in watching sports. However, I took up playing hurling (Irish national sport- kind of like hockey on grass instead of ice) a few years ago. Not for the faint of heart, but no one ever questions the 'man credentials' of a hurler.

I guess I was talking about cultural diversity; it's supposed to be a ship from Earth, but everyone is just so sort of blandly American. And I guess maybe you'd have to read a lot of my other posts to know I didn't expect Dorn or Burton to be 'gangsta.' To the contrary, but we've had major black characters on…

I remember reading somewhere that the distribution of wealth in North Korea is like the Russian Empire under the tsars- something like 90% of the wealth in the hands of 1%. In North Korea, this elite are those who get to live in Pyongyang, have (intermittent) electricity, (intermittent) food, access to imported…

Charlotte, you simply rock. Good for what you've done so far. I'd love to see this scumbag broken in every way possible.

Talk about milking the story for a cheap joke.

After reading article after article about young Japanese shut-ins and how Japanese people aren't dating or marrying, I think the 'Don't date a robot' "Futurama" episode may come true in Japan. I guess in another 50 years or so when it is sufficiently depopulated, China will just annex it.

I know in parts of Asia, a man with one or both pinky finger nails kept long signifies that he doesn't have to do manual labor. Wealthy Romans wore togas for the same reason. Unlike the frat-boy party bed sheet draped over one shoulder, a real Roman toga was very cumbersome and was a way of showing that the wearer…

I'm guessing the guy has to make lots of money for his darker skin to be acceptible.

Aside from his support for this snake oil, the ad exec should be bludgeoned for his use of 'Youngistani.'

Even without knowing anything about the guys in the photo, I have a primal urge to pound their faces (a similar instinct when I see, say, Justin Bieber's photo). I wonder if there's a genetic scumbag radar.

There was a movement in Brazil encouraging white men to father as many children as possible by black women, thereby 'lightening' Brazil and 'improving' it by making it more like the US.

Going from native of English to learning Japanese is jumping off a pretty high cliff. I was taking a university level Chinese course (my wife's from China and teaches at the university, which meant I got to take the class for free, so I figured 'why not?') and was surprised how many of the students said, "Well, I…

When I speak to people who I know are Libertarians (inevitably, white middle class guys), I bring up stuff like this. There's either no regulation, or if there is, it's ignored or someone is paid to look the other way. I spent a year in South America as a high school exchange student and didn't think much of it, but…