Not everyone can afford to be poor the grown up way, with student debt.  And people with ordinary jobs like that can become wealthy and comfortable.  It just takes thrift and sacrifice and decades.

Some people in jail might not want their family to know. It could be that they don’t automatically tell everyone a prisoner knows, about the prisoner being in jail, to try to be nice. It is usually published in the newspaper, though.   After a person is dead, maybe they feel free to violate that privacy.  Or maybe it…

Is this an indictment of the money bail system or exactly the opposite? The thesis that this woman had no money is probably false. She was jailed for $150 days all expenses paid. She lived outside independently. I believe she had some income that she was living on and probably was racking up hundreds or thousands of…

I suspect that all the additional image processing Google does would be too much for the processer, if it had to do the same thing with multiple camera images, simultaneously. Perhaps they can do more than they are, but it may be a limitation that they will have to lag behind other producers of flagship phones.

More intelligent than even Ajunct Professors?

Years ago at my grocery store, a local guy nicknamed Eazy tried to buy cigarettes with weed or a ho with, I may say, limited charms.  Oddly, the ho seemed to be lodging at home with his wife.  I declined.  

Maybe that suit is the prize for the most social credit in China.  

Even jackasses should get help when contemplating suicide. If they live long enough, it will seem like a mistake later...usually.

Empathy is learned.  Give teens part time work or just deal.  Someday if they work tables or someone they care about does, then they will learn.  Or maybe they will just grow up.

My little supermarket sells Pennzoil 5W-30 for $5.39 and a private label for $3.39. So, get out of your bubble, and check brick & mortar prices, before you buy the hype.  

The most beautiful women in the world don’t enter these contests unless they live in certain pageant obsessed countries. I don’t think Miss USA even gets all that many contestants anymore.

Could be the police department and prosecutor are playing hardball, because with that many officers involved, they have multiple angles of video, so much it might take weeks to review, and no worries that they will be embarrassed when it comes out. There may already be a decision to try the teen girl as an adult.…

storing cookies in coffee cans is a definitely a grandma thing.  Mine did that too.

Inhumanly perfect, white teeth that may glow in the dark?

Marketing tip: Whenever a cashier at my small rural supermarket informs me that something that was supposed to be $1.79 somehow rang up for $179.00 which is quite rare, thankfully, I always suggest to the cashier that she offer the customer half off.

Once the police arrived on the scene and ran her name and discovered an outstanding warrant for alleged card fraud, that’s all she wrote. She is going to be apprehended and taken to the police station regardless of availability of seating. If there were no outstanding warrant, then I would agree with you that giving…

Did the USSR under Russia pay workers well? They didn’t drink much beer by the by. In fact, Beer in Russia has only really started to catch on in countries like Russia and Ukraine where people were traditionally more Vodka and wine consumers, in this century.

The lady is doing business as a contractor, sort of a business in essence, not an employee, and commercial speech does not enjoy so much protection as individual liberties. Technically, as an individual, Amawahi probably can’t be restricted from boycotting Israel, in her personal life, but anything relating to her…

First of all, there was an outstanding warrant for alleged card fraud in NJ as I recall, and that alone would be a basis for apprehending her and taking her to the station. Other than that, it seems that government office has rules against resting on the floor and if they are not followed, then they want people to…

Ultimately, the child may not be going to the police station, and picking them both up at once is probably not an authorized use of force and involves additional risks and liabilities. Carefully supporting and pulling arms apart? They might be piled on her like a football scrum trying to do that. That might not look…