Many if not most first-degree murder charges are based on statutory carve-outs. What you’re describing is often called felony murder: if you commit a violent felony (like robbery) and someone dies in the event, you can be charged with 1st-degree even if you never meant to kill anybody (including such cases as where a…

Yeah the “whatever” refers to the genre, not the content. I read it. I just can’t fit it into any established class of literature. I’m not damning the guy (you?) on “mere sentiment”; I’m damning him for not having a goddam clue whereof he speaks, ‘k?

I did read it. It was bullshit. Kthxbye.

I’m only a psychologist by proximity (being the only person in my immediate family who isn’t one) but I can still smell amateur bullshit when it’s fresh. My brother, an actual personality psychologist, would have a cow if he saw this... whatever it is this guy wrote.

Conscientiousness is one of the “Big Five” personality traits (along with neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, and agreeableness); it’s meant to measure diligence, punctuality, attention to detail, etc. etc. Someone with low conscientiousness is perceived as flaky but spontaneous (the person who never…

I can’t get past him think Swedish people are “swarthy.”

Miller still thinks life is a high school forensics tournament. Which is bad enough when you’re actually in high school forensics, but as a grown-ass man, oy. So very pathetic.

Nah, he offered to do it for free, thereby undercutting the hardworking Americans doing the job now.

Nonimmigrant visas, to be far too fair.

I am convinced Miller got beat up a lot as a kid.

Reese Brands kindly reminds its customers that trailer hitches are not designed or rated for rectal insertion.

Eh, there’s some ambiguity as to whether or not people born overseas to American parents are “natural-born” citizens or not. Congress explicitly said John McCain’s situation (born in the Panama Canal Zone i.e. U.S. territory to parents abroad on official assignment) qualified, and they conspicuously did NOT do the…

Malls are doing juuuust fine in China, believe you me. You can get your dinner and/or groceries and/or liquor with an app, but pretty much any significant household purchase requires an in-person appearance or a dice roll on one of several Chinese versions of eBay.

Hot taek: I can’t frickin’ stand anyone involved in this.

Just start with the fact that one of the world’s leading refs is a gay Welsh standup comedian and bard, and go from there.

As noted elsewhere, it was very likely port. There are true dessert wines carried in true first class cabins by some airlines, but Delta doesn’t have true first class cabins. [harrumphs, adjusts monocle.]

I suspect the ambiguity was intentional. Give the kid options without having to change his/her/their/its actual name.

Darn. It’s Tom Shannon (under secretary for political affairs since last year, pretty much every other slightly-less-senior position before that, former ambassador to Brazil). Good guy. Low profile. And his low-profileness might be why he still has his job (thank God), as Trump dismissed every other under secretary…

Eh. It’s not a question of competence at that level, and one can have a decent foreign policy run from the White House (see Obama, Barack). It’s just that career diplomats tend to be pretty low-profile people and SecState is a high-profile job. Case in point: the seniormost career guy was acting secretary for a couple…

Literally nothing in this comment accurately reflects visa policy or practice. In this particular case, the outcome is sad but very likely correct under the law (which has been around in more or less its present state for over 60 years): you cannot have a nonimmigrant visa unless you can demostrate abundantly that you…