In Japan, frustration with the hopelessness of being underemployed is much greater and longer term than in the U.S. , so far, but customers are far more polite. The motivation of this viral meme is therefore likely to be to embarrass and spite the employer, not something personal with the customers.

Friendship is crucial, because that is what keeps you together during bad spots when the romance is not happening.  But, common ground can be created, if people make an effort, whether it is a hobby, dancing, or parenting.

“I wanted to give everyone a chance.” The idea of being fair is very endearing, but few people with that attitude can really follow through.  Usually, it wastes time at best and can even be dangerous in the wort case scenario.  Be honest about what you want and the actual statistical chance that what you want might…

You can also stream the 1993 Anime online, which gives you a sense of the emotional weight of the story in two parts, lasting a little more than fifty minutes, but like the film, may also lack some detail found in the manga.

It seems a bit out of the ordinary to the point of being ridiculous, to convene a Grand Jury to decide whether to charge anyone with filing a false police report. I have never heard of that being done before. If the alleged victim had been a woman, black or white, concocting a story, then the case would usually just…

Huma and Anthony could reunite... again.

I put in a domestic, U.S. city and a European city and it just spit out a bunch of global cities with Intl. Airport hubs.  Amsterdam?  Thanks for the perspicacious advice.  I would never have thought!

People have seats, so why not anthropomorphized cars?  They may have decided that LED headlights are less expressive and less spacious than the usually vacant real estate of windshields.  In the case of those wide, narrow curved head lamp, LED slits, it can be hard to animate the necessary expressiveness of eyes…

I believe they are not counting loans and grants to students as “Revenues from grants, federal contracts, or appropriations.” But, a fair question is whether HBCUs are more comparable to private universities than they are to public universities. Private universities would receive some percentage, public funding that…

If I had a dime bag for all the bullet holes 50 Cent has in him, I would be a rich man.  

Even if Jussie “Orchestrated” the attack on himself, we shouldn’t doubt his contention that it was motivated by homophobia and racism.

“Bay News 9 reports the boy was apprehended by a school resource officer because he wouldn’t follow directions, threatened the teacher with violence...”

It varies from State to State and city to city how a school has to deal with a child who threatens violence against a teacher. In many States that is O.K., but perhaps not in Florida. In the wake of Parkland, they might be too sensitive about school kids threatening teachers. Obviously, in this case, the teacher said…

The police repudiated reports that it went down as a staged event, what? Yesterday? Now they appear to affirm the opposite. Their credibility is getting thin, but I think denying the contrived nature of the attack, despite that they apparently were collecting evidence that it happened that way, could have been risk…

Police hostage negotiators often pretend to be simpatico with criminals and terrorists, yet they are rarely accused of collusion.  Unless there is some evidence that the police were colluding with Alt-Right thugs to cause injury to someone, not to defuse conflict, then there is no reason to censure the police,…

Just in general, the detective/fantasy genre is tired.  Give it a rest.

The Aussies are really in the soup. That is also an oblique reference to the sad situation with the flooding and river that has widened in proportion to the extrordinary cabbage.

Stone’s role, per Stone is that he requested documents from Guccifer 2. and Wikileaks after they were already in possession of the stolen data. The filing includes no charges that challenge that assertion, and only vaguely even alleges the possibility. He is charged with lying about details, but other than that, what…

Irrespective of the responsibility for the death and injury, the city’s insurance company, assuming they are not self insured, would have probably settled this case for a figure in the low, single digit, millions.  There is a greed element here.  Most likely, the case can still be settled, before retrial.  

The idea of mocking previous over the top comedies that have expected us to suspend our disbelief about adults playing child actors, is laudable, but not this maudlin mess. Many of the ideas are good and should work, but somehow they end up more embarrassing and painful than funny.  It didn’t make me barf either,…