Charlemagne: c. 800 a.d. Harold Godwinson: died at Hastings, 1066 a.d. cholera: arrived in Europe after 1830 Ignorance is bliss, right?

Tell this to the IRS. The feds have the power - and will exercise it - to impute income from tips when the amount reported doesn't look right. The zero tip will get added to the server's taxable income as some percentage of his/her reported income - even when you stiffed the poor soul.

No tipping in France? A bar a couple hundred meters off the Place de la Bastille was the first place I saw the suggested tip as a percentage of the tab actually printed on the check and that was five years before I saw the same thing in the US. And no, the place was not an American hangout - various sorts of English…

"... what is wrong with this woman, to throw the word rape around just to get back at an ex for a bad breakup is both utterly irresponsible and demeaning to real rape victims."

" [false rape claims are] how most women get money nowadays."

Good story - right up there with alligators in the New York sewer system.

If the video store/chain is defunct, then who is the injured party complaining of the theft.

I had a roommate freshman year in college (1960) who insisted that segregation was warranted, and - I don't know whether it was a "because" or an "additional reason" - but when we argued (I was from the northern great plains) he always thought his trump card was "you evah seen a red haired nigger?"

This was just about the most stupid post ever - the morning after pill prevents implantation - no implantation and the prosecutor will have the devil's own time proving a life, right? No life, no murder, right?

Get serious, good people. Griner might - make that probably will - dominate the WBA. But remember: Baylor lost twice this year to teams (Stanford and Louisville) that prepared for Baylor by scrimmaging with former high school basketball players from their own student bodies.

The cruise ships that do Antarctica are not "luxury" in the sense almost of the readers would believe - they are much smaller and more to the point, are much more heavily built for minor encounters with ice

I think it is a felony in New York State to film anyone having sex without first obtaining consent of all those on camera if they had a reasonable expectation of privacy; the fact that she is underage, and the film child pornography as a result, is a different matter. The surreptitious filming of sexual activity is a…

"Free agency has greatly diminished pro sports" is one of the dumbest things to appear here in a long time.

As one who may know a little more about ballet than "palegirl" but not much more, certainly - in my limited experience ABC is more "athletic" in its style (which is not to suggest that City Ballet dancers are not alsophysically tuned to the breaking point - it's just the choreography) and does "story" ballets - one…

Harvard 69, Columbia 0. The season isn't a total loss for Columbia - the team beat Yale the previous weekend

‘‘Is $100,000 middle income?'' Stephanopoulos asked.

But what about the effect of longer/shorter foul lines and power alleys? The conjecture about juicing would be more interesting if it were correlated to changes in park dimensions. And park dimensions in general skew the whole discussion - some fly balls to left in Fenway are home runs there, and would have been…

If I were the guy, and they offered me an aisle seat in exchange for the one I'm sitting - I'd be out of there so fast ...

For once the South Dakota legislature is considering doing something worthwhile. I think "sexting" ought to be discouraged for a variety of reasons - but making it a felony, with lifetime registration as a sex offender, is stupid.

GWAPE (Girl-with-pearl earring) wrote to the author of an op-ed piece that offended her