Because there's a culture where everyone goes to university, and young students/parents don't know that university quality varies widely and that other options are available.

I think parents also don't know better because it was different in their generation- where college tuition was actually affordable to the…

Wong Kar Wai is objectively one of the most important directors of the past 50 years... his work is pretty well known internationally, and I'm someone who doesn't have patience for old "historically important" films, but his stuff is actually watchable and nice.

You gotta find a good quality version... Wong Kar Wai films are reknown for their cinematography- they do weird stuff like use low frame rates for some shots, but they're not cheap college art films, they're real productions and some of the most important films Hong Kong has ever made. Yeah they're not super HD…

It's all context, here the genders are the same, it wasn't in the slightest bit sexual, and there's a cultural history of it being a harmless boyish prank.

Had it been a man doing this to a woman of course it would be totally different (and not ok). I concede that maybe pantsing someone is kinda a borderline thing…

Seconded... Wehrmacht just means "Defence Force" and it was the name for the regular army (as distinct from the SS etc).

Seconded- I just discovered this blog the other week with your reports on the war photographer in Africa, and it's been really interesting so far. Looking forward to future postings, top notch stuff.

When the reality of daily life in the United States changes, then the statistic categories can be retired. This has not yet happened. As you can see, despite it being 2014, race is still a predicting factor in early death.

The marines just aren't really into the gothlife.

Even with the AHA y'all Yankees have a terrible healthcare system... you pay more for services and materials than other countries, and even if you do have insurance you have co-pays and all sorts of rubbish-and if you get really sick your insurance can top-out and just say "bye." If you're a millionaire you can get…

Jesus... well done mate, well done.

I'm not sure what your geographic situation is regarding other options, but perhaps you'd be happier with a higher luxury part-time instead... with your experience and professionalism it sounds like someone else would appreciate this more than your present part-time employer.

Other countries have different relationships with the armed forces... especially those with histories of fascism, and people are suspicious of the authoritarian dimension it implies. People's parents and grandparents lived through brutality at the hands of their own or neighbouring armed forces, and so for worse and I…

Someone else pointed out that it's perhaps province-specific- in my Ontario elementary and highschool we had everyday the national anthem, and we all stood, and this was in the late 90's through middle 2000s. Not in university though...

"their job"

As a foreigner I always thought the pledge of allegiance was a little over the top... also it being recited by children and all. That said in Canada we would stand every day for the national anthem. :/

Can you even legally punish minors though? In Canada I think the age is 12 or 13, under which you can't be criminally responsible (although a child could be taken and placed in special care etc.). I guess this is sort of unclear because States make it (right?), but it seems like it would be ripe for challenge to try…

I wonder too, does it also imply some anti-semitism? I suppose it depends on which brand of crazy the people subscribe to.

I think people often confuse "honesty" with "talking too much."

Aren't these discussions moderated anymore? Not that I'd be thrilled about heavy-handed moderation but surely someone can dismiss the trolls...