There is an annual International Pasty Festival in Hidalgo, Mexico thanks to their introduction there by the Cornish miners. The parts of my family that make them are Croatian whose ancestors worked the mines in Upper Peninsula along with the Cornish. Food is such a great way to form relationships with others,…

Mine was not a suggestion that somehow individuals should be held beyond their sentence, rather that the sentencing structure for this category of crimes needs to be rethought. For the most serious offenses, which is ultimately what the registry was designed for, the minimum sentence should be life WITH the…

Law enforcement agencies themselves have mixed feelings on the registry. Their biggest complaint is that it encompasses so many people who do not (or never did) represent a threat to society that the administration of the registry needlessly wastes vast amounts of time and resources on them and reduces LE’s ability to…

Do you have a problem with the Dept. of Labor “sincerely” (and correctly) using the term unskilled labor? Is there a ridiculous euphemism that you prefer instead?

That may make it EASIER to slash the workforce, but it doesn’t change the fundamental truth that most businesses typically overstaff when the economy is on the upswing and then look to reduce or eliminate that surplus labor when either the economy and/or the company’s finances face a downturn.

Labor is typically the biggest reduceable cost for most employers, not just because of the total of their wages and benefits, but also more indirect costs of unreliability as well as being potential liability risks of one form or another. And for unskilled labor, fast food in this case, it is not very difficult to…

I was a Navy pilot as well in the 90s and 2000s, and the recruiting numbers off the back of that movie were nowhere near the myths that sprang up over the years. But as I said already, what the Navy was particularly disappointed with was the fact that exit surveys, interviews, recruiting office conversations showed…

The Navy was famously disappointed in the recruiting ROI from Top Gun because people leaving the theater still largely and incorrectly thought it was a movie about the Air Force.  

Yes, everyone rightly thinks of the big performances of Williams and Lane in The Birdcage, but Hackman’s utter perfection as the straight man is what makes the movie, giving all of the lunacy something to play against. His confident obliviousness which eventually gives way to bewilderment as everything unfolds is just…

It wasn’t just Hollywood itself, but also the entertainment media that refused to treat Polanski as if he’d done anything REALLY, TRULY wrong. It was all, “That was a different time”, “Even the victim didn’t think it was big deal” kinds of bullshit. But once #MeToo arrived, their tunes instantly changed to, “Jail is…

Not to mention that their reputation for doing this to anything and everything that isn’t an instantaneous global phenomenon has probably trained a good bit of their audience not to get invested in most of their new shows in the first place. Why would people bother if it will never get a proper conclusion or, hell,…

I think it’s just the opposite. Republicans don’t want to expand background checks precisely BECAUSE that will do little to prevent mass shootings. So the next time we have a national reckoning about gun violence, the goalposts will be moved closer to new “solutions” that they and their constituents actually find less…

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I, as a gun owner suspicious of many gun control measure attempts, also support requiring background checks for all private sales. As part of that, though, I would want NICS to be opened up to the public to submit checks for these sales at a small, reasonable fee rather than unnecessarily funneling everyone to FFLs…

I, as a gun owner suspicious of many gun control measure attempts, also support requiring background checks for all private sales. As part of that, though, I would want NICS to be opened up to the public to submit checks for these sales at a small, reasonable fee rather than unnecessarily funneling everyone to FFLs…

I’m a concealed carry permit holder and veteran, and I wholeheartedly agree that escape should always be the first and most desirable course of action, armed or not, and for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, that’s not the mindset of most people once they are carrying, and part of that is the way carry classes…

To me, Wyze cams are far and away the best value. While there is usually some kind of bundle offered, you will probably end up just buying as many individual cams, indoor or outdoor, that you need unless you also need motion detectors, door and window sensors, etc. They offer two different indoor cams, one fixed and…

To me, Wyze cams are far and away the best value. While there is usually some kind of bundle offered, you will…