Yeah, but if it were set in 21st century America, and the (white) narrator shot the Arab stranger who flashed a knife at him, somehow I think the narrator's punishment would be less guillotine and more nothing.

That customers frequently sexually harass servers is not at all surprising. As you point out, tipping means customers are paying these women's wages, and have more power to sexually harass them without consequence than they would in other industries.

Idiots or psychos? Clearly psychos. The point of the law seems to be to make it virtually impossible for young women to get abortions without their parents' consent. I highly doubt any of these lawmakers actually thinks that the parents aren't going to catch wind of the fact that they're putting a girl on trial,…

But seriously, you're not making that comment apropos of nothing. You're making it apropos of an article about her talking about her rape, and that's what makes it such a stupid thing to say here, in this context.

Sorry, correction: "her" stupid comment.

Apropos of his stupid comment: Audi-os, Amigos! fucking sucks.

I'm not talking about innocence or guilt— there is no way she could bring criminal charges against her employer for something a customer did. I'm talking about civil actions before the EEOC or state agencies, which are still very difficult to win, but not quite as stringent as a being found guilty standard.

I don't think this is 100% true, legally speaking. Employers do have a responsibility to keep their workplace from being a hostile work environment. So if they know about repeated sexual harassment from customers, and do nothing to stop it, then fire a worker for refusing to serve somebody who touches her ass, that…

They've already announced that there won't be any Lady Stoneheart in the show.

Whether or not to appeal is one of the few things that the law very clearly states is the client's choice, not the lawyer's, along with whether to plead guilty or not guilty, whether to testify, and maybe a couple of others that I'm blanking on right now.

Um, no, it's gonorrhea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_clap

Charging customers for it violates the terms of their agreements with credit card companies, usually. The companies insert terms of use that say you can't charge a penalty for using the credit card.

It's not legal everywhere. Deducting credit card fees from tips is explicitly illegal in California (http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_tipsa…), and I seem to remember it violating MA's tips law too. I wouldn't be surprised if it's unlawful here in DC, but it's definitely allowed in states whose minimum wage laws follow…

That's bizarre. Which restaurants are you talking about? I fairly regularly go out in that area, and everywhere I go splits checks. It's such a common place for having meals paid for by employers or whoever that there's no way they could get away with not doing that. Last couple places I've been in Chinatown both…

This is not possible for those of us who have employers or others paying for our meals— we need a receipt for exactly what we got and no more for reimbursement purposes.

I think it is more likely a result of so much public employment, where the gender gap is demonstrably lower (something like 91% as opposed to 78%).

(1) Of course they do, I made my point inartfully. What I meant was, if an American appellate court reverses a conviction based on insufficiency of the evidence, that is it, and the case ends, and anything else would be double jeopardy.

You're mixing up two different claims, here.

Sure, employers can fire you for inappropriate use of social media (though I would certainly challenge your implication that calling out sexism is somehow inappropriate). But that's not the issue here. If her tweet was a complaint to her employer about sexual harassment, then they can't fire her for it. Employers…