And the drift!!! I swear to Jeebus, when they text and walk, they drift right over to the side that I’m trying to get around them. Every time!

Please explain your research method, and why N=1 is a proper sample size.

The people that habitually do this, the ones that see walking from place to place as a good time to catch up on Facebook and Twitter, do not know this. They think they are multitaskers who can do both things at once and anyone who thinks they can’t only thinks so because they are the type of moron who can only do one…

This study is one of the more pointless studies I have every seen. Everyone knows this is the case. I’ve even experienced it myself.

People need to do the sidewalk equivalent of pulling over if they’re going to text. Lean up against a nearby wall, send your message, pocket your phone, continue walking.

And including “I felt that my life was in danger”.

“But I don’t know the legal underpinnings of that.“

*They get to fund terrorism too

#ThievesForJesus

As an art historian weighing in - in CERTAIN (very limited) instances, do I think that potentially smuggling artifacts out of war zones is warranted, if not the duty, of humanity? Yes. Look at what havoc ISIS is currently wrecking upon the historical sites of Syria. However, it’s a far bridge to gap between a…

There’s no way they didn’t know what they were doing. The owner of Hobby Lobby is an experienced collector, and by 2010 when all of this took place, everyone in that business knew the market was glutted with looted artifacts from Iraq.

With that said, it’s not unheard of for the government to bring simultaneous civil and criminal proceedings arising from the same conduct (but usually the civil proceedings are stayed pending resolution of the criminal proceedings).

there are black people serving life sentences in grueling conditions for possessing tiny bags of crack and these fuckers get to deny their employees birth control, steal ancient priceless shit, and get off with a fine and a slap on the fucking wrist.

I know we have many in the commentariat educated in the law. Can one of you help me understand why federal prosecutors would bring a civil complaint rather than a criminal one?

New rule: if you can’t follow a simple set of rules outlined in the most important of your religious documents, then you can’t force your employees to follow an obscure ‘rule’ that you gerrymandered into your religious beliefs through logical contortions and pseudoscience. K?

Can these people get any grosser?

Uh smuggling in artifacts by deliberately mislabeling them seems like a bit more than “regrettable mistakes” due to “inexperience”. The smuggling part makes it seem like you kiiiiinda knew what you were doing.

I worked at a Tim Horton’s one summer, and that order clock drove me nuts. It felt disgustingly like a Skinner box.

I know you didn’t ask (and this doesn’t really have much to do with your comment, sorry) but as someone who was annoyed by the avocado toast fiasco and also writes about personal finance, I want to share a few thoughts: