An infant lay in a baby carriage in front of the photo studio. I was there to get visa pictures as was the infantβs father, who was from Malaysia.
A Thai-Chinese woman in her 80βs made a fuss about the infant, who I wrongly assumed was the childβs β¦
One undiscussed aspect of the pardon is whether those who are incarcerated on other offenses, but whose presumptive guidelines were calculated based in part on the now-pardoned conduct, are entitled to sentence reductions.
Under the Sentencing β¦
Property owners who delegate rental management to local companies an who may never even have visited their leased property.
Since real estate agents claim that one of their core skills is showing a property and none of these properties are ever β¦
In the US, itβs
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In the UK, itβs
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When writing Markdown, itβs
*. or
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Because it doesnβt matter if a full stop is italicized or not.
But after a while, the error ceases to leap out at you. Query: will this lead to the long-awaited unification of β¦
Typing envelopes is a practical use for a typewriter.
By the time you:
In 1975, the US Senate unanimously agreed to posthumously restore citizenship to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
Statues of the former have been removed; not sure if there were ever any statues of the latter outside of Mississippi.
It is now silly to pretend that there is any intellectual integrity to Supreme Court decisions. For the past 60 years, we studied and learned from Roe. Now we’re told it was all ginned-up nonsense and that should have been obvious from the β¦
This is the kind of nonsense I’d expect from grifters, con artists and others of that ilk. In order to avoid the photo op showing Biden shaking hands with MbS, the invented cover story–which probably made sense sitting around a briefing β¦
While the killer murders children, cosplaying coward cops make sure their hands are sanitized. The coward cops of Uvalde and Parkland show that the militarization of American police is mostly cosplay.
60 years after arguing about Quemoy and Matsu
we’re still arguing about
Quemoy and Matsu.
Good news Bahrain: The number of Active Covid-19 cases is dropping. 12,747 as of 4 July. There is still a long way to go to get the numbers to the August, 2020 level, but the July trend is encouraging.
Q. “We are playing the conference champions next week and our team has had a dismal record. What can we do, that is, in a spiritual sense, to insure victory?”
A. Put photographs of a soul-eating Naga everywhere in the champions' dressing β¦
American Muslims: now that the US Supreme Court in Bremerton has approved midfield prayer during football games, it’s time to get an appropriate prayer rug for the next game.
(Note: please do not suggest this is inappropriate, I have an β¦
June stats: the number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has started to level off, with daily drops of 200 cases or so. Let’s hope the slow downward trend continues.
The U.S. Supreme Court has approved private, voluntary prayer at high school football games. The opinion raises many questions concerning the Establishment clause and the separation of Church and State. I have put together a helpful FAQ to aid β¦
The proposed “historic” American gun legislation is anything but:
What’s strange–
and really more dangerous than anything else
–is that both sides on January 6
thought they were protecting democracy.
Efforts to “de-gender” the English language by using neologisms (e.g. βlatinxβ) have failed, even though English is not as gender-obsessed as the Romance languages or German. The only real solution is a language that does not recognize β¦
Anyone who makes it from Calais, whether legally or not, should be given refugee status because of their successful efforts to land on British soil. Just as possession is 9/10ths of the law and “finders keepers, loosers weepers”: β¦
Here are the outlines for a face-saving plea for the USG in the Assange case:
Julian gets his freedom back, USG gets a guilty plea, Julian β¦
Chilean-resident Haitians who have lived in Chile for five years are not refugees.
Evergreening:
“To roll over unpaid amounts on loans, adding to the total amount outstanding.”
Loan sharks have long simply added unpaid vig to the total amt.owed without needing to name the practice.
No need to waste millions on McKinseyβs business consulting advice; the t-shirt says it all.
There is so little to write about when covering golf that the slightest variation from the gameβs white-bread norm is newsworthy. Because what happens in the game is infrequent and hard to see and takes little more than 90 seconds on Youtube β¦
βImagine some would-be mass shooter bursting into a classroom only to be faced almost instantly by the barrels of at least 15 to 20 handguns.β
Read more: β¦
