They don't have a manual?

As someone who has only encountered Alsatians in James Herriot books, I never knew they were talking about German Shepherds.

Yeah! Just like "The Sound of Music".

No. Israeli Arabs (both Muslim and Christian) are full citizens with voting rights and representatives in the Knesset. Palestinians are not citizens of Israel because they were not in the country in 1948 and not citizens of Jordan because they refused to take them in 1967. Thus they are stuck stateless. I think…

Have you seen "Real Men"? John Ritter, Jim Belushi, and a hilarious script. Still funny today.

One would usually have a trial to ensure due process . . .

I'm not gonna let them stop me from using parentheses.

"Off for years". Who can tell these days? My kids still watch it on Netflix or Hulu or something.

Wow, are you this hard on other crappy action/period pieces like Bruce Willis's "Last Man Standing"?

You point out a real concern. I do not particularly want to buy Internet-enabled appliances. This IOT hype of the last few years has me nervous. Forget your house, why would it be desirable to hook up the water supply to the internet? The traffic lights? Ate we begging for collusion between hackers and terrorists…

It might be forgiveable if the character is rather innocent and idealistic. She would be continuing Dostoyevsky's idea of the "holy fool".

Are you trying to hypnotize me?

The more recent kids sitcoms are still inane: ICarly, Jessie, Wizards of Waverly Place, Suite Life of Whoever.

"The powerful cough syrup was developed in the 1950s"

That led me to an amusing book that I'll have to read now:

Is that where the Hell's Kitchen kids go to jail, get raped, and get revenge?

Intriguing, never read this before. It implys that gerrymandering would be strategically useful in two out of three cases:

Exactly, companies complain about the high cost of benefits and it has operational effects like always trying to get by with too few people, but if the costs of adding a person were reduced, you could increase manpower without it hitting the bottom line as hard. The result would be both increased employment and…

This author did not forbid anyone (not that he has any authority); he just wrote an opinion piece.

Dunno for sure. We're up to our ass in them around here.