Part of it's a punitive thing. Incarceration should not be wholly about punishment, but it shouldn't not be about it at all either. If you defraud thousands or millions of people out of millions or billions of dollars, you deserve to be separated from society for a while.

GodDAMN. That...THAT is keeping it real.

I'd love to oblige with the Loretta Lynn GIF, but cannot figure out where she's featured in the video.

But making it all about his disability is pretty sleazy.

I'm just amazed that Russia are making people nervous with a 40-year-old airframe design.

Great - then he'd be Anaerobic Slime Gene Simmons. Just what we friggin' need.

Gene, I want you to take this with all the kindness, humility and grace it's meant to convey:

Yeah, I dunno. (I will say I wouldn't say she was "stacked" or anything, though that's clearly a subjective judgement.) Maybe if the lyrics were originally like that she was writing from a different POV?

I have a pet theory that the lyrics did not originally include the words "bass" and "treble," but rather "ass" and "titties." Thus the musical incongruity.

Seems like different contexts can yield different meanings and reactions.

I do appreciate the answer. Hope I didn't come off as accusatory. You sound like you'd be peachy to work for.

I can only hope this scenario is what Grisham was talking about, because he's a nutcase otherwise.

My company in particular has seen a 20-30% jump in sales in the stores that open on Thanksgiving, as opposed to those that open at midnight.

If the big shopping rush was pushed back half a day into the weekend, why wouldn't the employees get hours over the weekend instead?

I love you. You have put into words precisely what's bugged me about Christmas Creep for years (and I absolutely love the holidays).

If I were Emperor, *NOTHING* except essential services and maybe a gas station or two would be open on major holidays. No one would work anywhere else except essential personnel. By law. If you want to be open, you have to apply for an exemption. I might let movie theatres and bars slide if they opened late in the…

We're about the same age. Black Friday didn't really become A Big Thing until about 10 years ago.

For himself—dare I say—Yardley sets the lowest standards of all.