Thank you, facts don’t matter when people have their narratives.

“With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country.” - Winnie Mandela [necklacing is putting a gasoline filled tire around someone’s neck and lighting it on fire].

Worked great in Zimbabwe! /s

FWIW, the jury foreman came out and said in the jury room they all thought she knew about plans for an attack, but didn’t think they could convict based on the requirements of aiding and abetting. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-noor-salman-jury-foreman-pulse-trial-20180330-story…

I don’t think it’s important to her credibility either way, but I don’t think this is quite accurate. My understanding is she’s won the Italian version of the Oscar two times, and is quite big there (daughter of a well know director as well), and I get the sense she aspired to break into the US film.

It’s all vestigial from the few hundreds of years where France was the dominant political and cultural force on the continent, giving it a lasting (sometimes undeserved) cultural prestige. They had a good run from Louis XIV through Napoleon where French was a common elite language (i.e. Lingua Franca - the Russian…

Weird unnecessary swipe at Cal Poly-Pomona. I’d say the schools are about equally nationally (un)known. Though I know Weird Al went to one of them, but I can never remember or bring myself to care which.

Congrats on another article about Cardi B that’s not ostensibly about Cardi B. You guys are getting subtle.

Oooh, if we can hijack this thread to talk about unique and interesting museums than add the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersberg to the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstkamera Went to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm recently and really enjoyed that too.

I’ve heard and surely believe this.

Don’t go. It’s not obvious from this article but this is a one of the most common day trips from Phuket, which itself is one of the most touristed/trashier parts of Thailand (which seems to attract the lower class package tourist from the world over). Be prepared to share paradise with black out drunk English, lobster…

It’s not serious. It’s humor.

This is the weird thing. I wouldn’t judge someone for having sex with Trump for money. I will judge someone for actually wanting to have sex with him for free.

It’s discussed in a thread above, but GPA can be quite important at the start of a legal career (both undergrad and law school GPAs- since initial summer associate positions are often offered after your first year of law school where you only have a few semesters of law school GPA to work with). I had my undergraduate…

It’s great that the two people who can’t spell Velveeta found each other.

Now, that’s interesting.

That article is dumb. “For instance, the crunchy taco—an anomaly in Mexico...” What? No, it’s not. Tacos dorados are pretty easily found. And then the guy says “It’d be like Mexicans trying to sell us hot dogs.” Setting aside hundreds of street corners in LA, the Sonoran hot dog is pretty much the best hot dog on…

Not defending this at all, but it’s crazy to think that’s better treatment than a black man in America, one of which in Sacramento was just shot and killed for holding a cell phone in his mother’s back yard. :/

Just don’t fly AirChina or China Eastern and there is a safe bet your experience will be leaps and bounds better than most US airlines. I’ve flown Korean, Asiana, Singapore, Cathay, Emirates and EVA and they’re all decent. Honestly, my United experiences trans-pacific haven’t been that bad in Economy Plus (aside from…

My condolences.