Of course you can create your own internal justice system. Every university has a code of conduct that students submit themselves to as a condition of employment/matriculation. You cannot kill them, as Judge Dredd would, but you could levy any university-based punishment (warning, probation, expulsion). Again,…

It should be a school matter, as well, just as it would be an employment matter in that context. What you propose - no school consequences for out-of-school behavior - is far more infantilizing than the converse. In real life, your actions have consequences both in and out of the context in which they're committed. …

You're right that you can screw up a PLU pretty readily. Even adding a "9" at the beginning (code prefix for organic produce) can result in a higher price being charged.

Dear Justice Scalia;

You sound like you've got a real winning personality.

Aaaaaand you saved it. Well done, sir.

The stoner Jesus schtick takes away from the very funny punchline.

"the asshole behind the register has mis-charged me things"

Well, you can't try your hand in the NFL or NBA without some college or experience in the international leagues under your belt, first of all. Those are the rules, and I doubt you'll find a kid from Watts who's prepared to transplant to the Czech Republic (or a team that would know who he was or recruit him without a…

It's a perfect analogy. Tell me where it fails. All you've trotted out so far are tropes about the value of an education.

I think you're pushing it a bit with this one.

The total package is always important, I agree.

Walmart can't pay you in Walmart gift cards, the actual-employment equivalent of the college athletic "salary" of room, board, and classes. Walmart also can't cut off an employee who is injured on the job without compensation.

I've suggested two Irish girl's names, Saoirse and Siobhan, to many people. I always get side-eye, but I think they're great names.

I did read them as you wrote them. The phrasing fairly can be read as referring to the woman about whom you were speaking - the subject of the story that was the entire reason for your comment - and I decided to point that out. I'm glad to know that you don't think that way.

"who can fault someone who believes — even if the reason is dumb — that she is protecting her pregnancy . . ."

This is not a tricky case, if the clause actually does say what the article claims (which is doubtful).

When you agree to the terms of a contract, notice of terms comes first, and agreement must come subsequently. Here, by the time you receive notice (by visiting the website), you've already taken the action which…

Racism in Bone?

They don't, but idiocy is spread more effectively by famous people. See also Jenny McCarthy; Donald Trump; Tom Cruise.

I like "orgasggeration." And that's not faking; that's just the equivalent of dirty talk.