Total speculation on my part, but the border patrol agents may have been alerted to check the women extra closely because they had past narcotics convictions, smuggling issues, or connections to someone who does that kind of thing. Or there might have been an informant.

Hey, outlining on your own is how you learn. Or at least it's how I learn. Better to be able to recall as much as possible from memory when it's exam time.

Congrats, kids, you have been taught an object lesson in mistrusting institutionalized authority. Your resulting cynicism and anger will come in super-handy in your adult lives, too!

Wasn't this showing at the Public last year? I guess it's in a different development phase now. Hopefully a phase where I'll actually be able to get tickets.

Oh my god, who's making those jokes and where does the line start to kick them?

<i>DaCosta said she was American, but after the owner pressed her, she said she was Jamaican and Lebanese, according to the decision.</i>

Exactly, Starbucks is intolerable unless it's completely adulterated. In the US, nearly the only coffee I can take with less than two spoons of sugar is coffee I make myself.

I work night shift and I've attempted to open my front door using my car's unlock button. Elephant noses are just a little slip. :)

I was thinking "Disney villain," but the essential sentiment is largely the same.

A vegetarian coworker of mine had to go to the hospital after he ate French fries that had been cooked in lard.

Haha, that must be why the Canadians come over the border to where I live to shop at TJ Maxx. (Seriously. So many Canadians at the TJ Maxx.)

I'm a professional working in government and yeah, dropping three digits on anything less than a winter coat is pretty darn extravagant. My professional clothes are largely from Express, NY & Co, or H&M, and even then I look for sales. Anything from a more expensive store like Banana Republic I got at a post-Christmas…

I can't think of a jurisdiction where taping a sexual assault makes it aggravated, though I'm only familiar with the laws in a few states - more common aggravating factors are things like using a weapon, the victim being especially young, mentally disabled, related to the perpetrator, or under the perpetrator's care,…