uh... Okay then. I imagine the Maori (aka Polynesians) might have a different gloss on who's invading whom. Never mind that respecting the one treaty that literally every country this side of Iran 1979 respects is not so much a marker of weakness as of "we don't want three-quarters of our diplomatic corps to be in…

Are we just supposed to accept that these people can literally get away with anything?

Diplomatic immunity exists for the sake of reciprocity and due to the fact that no government anywhere fully trusts any other government.

Umpires place the runners by their own judgment on fan interference. Commenter clearly differed from umps in what base the runners would have made if play continued.

Close HBPs are sound calls (i.e. the umpire is working off what he heard, not what he saw); they should only be reviewable to determine if ball hit bat or batter, not batter vs nothing. Call stands because if even a stitch on the ball hit a hair on his arm or a thread on his jersey, it counts, and if the umpire said…

So if you had Costa Rica over Italy for your upset special, please collect your winnings from the cashier, ya damn liar.

Yeah, well, scuttlebutt is that she hacked the Republican primary by running ads about how Akin was "too conservative" for Missouri, fully aware that amongst GOP primary voters this was the highest possible praise—so she picked her own opponent, knowing that it was only a matter of time before he ate his foot.

Right, and if your employer in THIS country doesn't let you off work, then you can quit and call the evening news and make your (former) employer look like dicks. Employers in this country are also obliged to give you up to twelve weeks off to deal with a child (not a pet, but you brought kids into it). If the army…

If you have a contract with a foreign corporation, they are extremely unlikely to let you go home to deal with minor property issues. In many countries, your employer takes your passport. In some, you can be imprisoned for attempting to break the contract by leaving the country.

... it's "McGee"

Want to feed this parent to a bear. Doctors throw the parents out because they know they won't get straight info from a sexually active kid if mom's there, or even from a sexually naive kid who has an embarrassing complaint, not because they want to sneak naughty sex tips to minors.

Not a fan of military adventures, but it really is relevant in this case that he's in the military, which is basically one of two ways you can be separated from your family and have no control over when you return—the other, of course, being imprisonment. If you get posted overseas for an office job and find out…

If the ref or assistant is not absolutely certain the ball is in, they're instructed to rely on the GLT. If they ARE absolutely certain it's in and the GLT doesn't ding appropriately, they can stop play and award the goal, but can meet to discuss it amongst themselves and, I should think, recheck the calibration of…

Could've been worse. Could've been Pete Kozma. Have a pleasant day!

Because those are their names? Not everybody born in a Latin American country is of indigenous or dominant-colonist extraction (witness Dilma Rousseff, Oscar Niemeyer, Frida Kahlo...).

Fair enough, but you crossed three lanes of traffic to sideswipe STL there; the article about our crappy beer loses nothing without that line. Criticism and insults aren't equivalent; "here are jokes about bad things in San Francisco, which I nonetheless love more than anywhere else on the planet," is not the same as…

Of course, that would mean going to St. Louis, and absolutely no one wants that.

Excuse me, sir, but this year we're celebrating TWO AND A HALF centuries of futility! Ha HA! Good day.

Heh, well, Krokodil definitely causes some dramatic dermatological symptoms; still, if you see someone with facial SJS and think "Krokodil," you should not be a doctor (and, as you note, if you see someone with SJS, think "Krokodil," and then think "there is nothing I need to do about this," you really should not be a…

Okay, assuming all the facts are as presented in the Rumpus article and GiveForward blurb, this is a clear-cut case of malpractice. As a health care provider/institution, you can't make such huge assumptions about someone's lifestyle in making a diagnosis. It can shade your probabilities—patient not breathing +…