I don’t dispute that the airline was horrible and that Rosetta’s complaint was completely reasonable. The problem is that she was on a commercial aircraft and when you are on an aircraft, it is like being on a ship at sea. You have fewer legal rights onboard, even when the plane is on the ground. This is why despite…

I could not find anything. I was apparently wrong that police might be liable for allowing a suspect to escape.

The police are absolutely required to remove passengers from the plane, any passengers for any reason, that the crew wants off.  Jail was the decision of the police and they had discretion to decide whether that was necessary, although the local police department or the state might have some law or regulation about…

I agree that she can win a lawsuit and had she been wiser, she would have simply documented her miserable experience and quietly left the plane with the intention of seeking compensation in court or a settlement, saving herself the twelve hours in jail and separation from her vomit encrusted daughter.  The police…

Pump brakes, not “Breaks” please, unless the topic is slackers.

The issue is not whether Rosetta was entitled to money or a ticket or a voucher or damages or whatever sort of compensation might be reasonable from the Vomit Comet. The issue is that she felt entitled to hold up an aircraft with passengers and crew for something they were not in a position to promise. They simply…

The issue is not safety of shooting tires. First of all, there is a principle, that a firearm is a tool to shoot people and should only come out for situations calling for lethal force. There is that cops might use the tactic in other situations. If a cop tries to shoot a tire, instead of a driver, the car can…

Police generally do not shoot tires.  That is not part of any training or doctrine.  

I am not saying shooting was the be best tactics, and American police are universally armed, plus allowed to shoot people in lots of situations UK police can't.  The situation in American law is that allowing a dangerous suspect to escape, deliberately allowing that, can be negligence on the part of  police officer or…

The basis of shooting would be that the suspect is an alleged, Armed Robbery suspect whom they at least imagined, presented a threat to the public. Had the suspect not committed a robbery, then they would have engaged in a vehicular chase.  They would have possibly wrecked at least one patrol car and then the sheriff…

Didn’t the company that did Tupac go out of business? Perhaps the Disney, animatronic route might suit Grimes? Surely, a jerky, slow moving robot could mimic a stoned artist.

Pigonomics is one of my favorite topics. Yes, you can tell a lot about a country based upon pig centric, economic activity. A friend of mine visits Vietnam, and unlike most Americans who visit, he goes to the village where Westerners are seldom seen. Every family in the village has a pig or pigs. A person of…

But, I did not generalize and I did not say being black in America is a great advantage to all. It is not. And I don’t claim that all successful black people achieved their positions without deserving them. I said that Mosby is an example of that and certainly there are some others. But, I don’t know how many. Having…

Are people really that concerned about bandaid color?  I was always perfectly happy as an adult, when they gave me a Loony Tunes, themed bandaid after a blood draw at the local clinic.  

Those aren’t the worst by a longshot. The worst are the ones who are lonely and frustrated with their lives and actually use us retail people who can’t leave the counter, as targets for the abuse that they can’t vent at home.

Men over sixty will prattle for an hour about the quality of a package delivery service they haven’t used in a decade.

This is the next step down that lonely road...

I think we really need to give the operators credit. They made a small mistake, making the focus of their marketing, gender politics instead of food.  But, they did manage to resist the tried and failed, “Pay as you feel,” business model, until the handwriting was on the wall.  

If you work harder, then you are stealing hours and glory from others. Because of this inequity, you should have to pay for people who are no more ill than you are, on SSI disability, and you make them nervous, and also for unconditional/Universal basic income, because your behavior really turns people off who want to…

Zombie entertainers threaten to take over our culture, in a new era where popular dead actors and singers are digitally recreated in various ways. Old actors are digitally de-aged and freshened up, and living, new generations of live human entertainers lose work and the opportunity to move American culture forward. …