I realize this seems like a pesky irrelevant detail to Americans but Russian Federation isn’t actually USSR... both crappy to be sure, their governments are on the opposite ends of political spectrum.

Dude, you just described Trump as an ideologue.(!?) 

-Heard of this Beyonce person, mostly through social media.

Apparently I must be.

*List based on compilation of endlessly regurgitated internet anecdotes.

Do all of you not even get desks?

It’s not allowed, but security could be described as lax by American standards. You don’t even get groped. Drunken idiots blowing off steam are a far more likely than a lunatic with an actual gun.

Hash out a deal with Paul Ryan? I vaguely recall a certain someone who had spent 8 years in that attempt. O... O... O-something. Incidentally wasn’t Paul one of the loudest within Republican cohorts, in expressing disappointment after they failed to repeal Obamacare after the latest try.? Seems like the exact kind of…

It would appear, they’re thinking she need not die in prison.

...or like Scotland having a team.

It’s high time somebody did something about the reprehensible crime that are facebook ads!

But they are landing on home soil, it’s a Soyuz shuttle.

“Might...” 

This sort of goes full circle... The OP mentioned the inappropriateness of white people rocking a “geisha outfit”. Without acknowledging the possibility that perhaps Japanese may have a very different attitude towards cultural appropriation.

In theory, yes. In practice; you’re better off sailing your dinghy outside of the commercial shipping lanes, or if you don’t, assume everyone wants to kill you. Because cargo ships have a gigantic blind spot right in front of them.

There’s another thing, Arleigh-Burkes are not full blown stealth ships, but with their reduced radar signature, I do wonder what they look like to a merchant ship’s radar... like a smaller ship, presumably. Combine this with the fact that civilian vessels above 300ton displacement all operate AIS. I can see how watch…

Heh, abortion used to be legal in Chile, but then, in around early 70s abortion rights, as well as other social attitudes started to regress and be eroded for some reason.

After an essay denouncing him as being so horrible, the acknowledgment of his foibles being, let’s be honest here, well within the norm of human behaviour, is quite anticlimactic.

Bummer.

Who knows... People so taken by ancient superstitions that they decide to kill random people over it, maybe don’t have rational, well thought-out reasons for picking a specific location for doing so.