YMMV but Crocs with little fake balls on them. I’m not googling “Croc & balls” at work but trust me, it’s a “new fashion trend.”
Do those come as a package deal with “Truck Nuts”?
I know that was tongue-in-cheek, but I live in truck nut land. Truck nuts are still a thing around here and might actually be enjoying a bit of a resurgence in popularity. I haven’t noticed the guys in their lifted trucks, with truck nuts, wearing Crocs. Typically it is slip on boots of some sort, or Whites/Nicks boots.
The city of Lakewood, New Jersey is tackling homelessness by cutting down all the trees in its town square.
I find it appalling that a land mass as resource-rich as the US and Canada can’t muster up the will to come up with a decent and humane way of dealing with homelessness and poverty, especially since (from what I heard several years ago) something like 10% of the homeless are schizophrenics. And who knows how many others have other mental illnesses.
It would be un-Constitutional. ‘Promote the Corporate Welfare’ and all that…
Speaking of which, I’m pretty sure I’ve read that the Founding Fathers really disliked corporations, and thought they should be illegal or at least severely constrained. Assuming that’s true, I’d love for someone to write up a brief to some new form of Citizen’s United and watch Alito do his originalist dance to try and refute it.
Also, assuming that the Democrat’s hold the House and get one or two more seats in the Senate, I’d like a one-line law that says “Corporation’s are not people, no matter what Mitt Romney says.”
Wouldn’t the bolded part make it a Bill of Attainder?* Better strike that bit.
*(I know that it wouldn’t. It’s a joke. Cool y’all damn jets.)
And that’s why you always leave a note!
Quote from the article : One student started a petition called “Let’s kill Eleri Irons,” according to the lawsuit, which said that after teachers found out about the petition, they didn’t notify Irons’ parents, resulting in “significant physical and psychological trauma.”
Ya know, even in the far flung year of 1980, I would have been suspended, maybe expelled for circulating a death threat for signatures.
This seems …off.
Sounds horrific, if true but there are inconsistencies.
“When we watched the video, we did not observe that behavior from him,” he said.
The original story has no quotes from other players in the game. Which I find strange. If the player serving heard it, then all the others heard it. Doesn’t it seem like a journalist would have spoke with a couple of players or the coaches before posting the story?
And the story here has no quotes from anyone else involved in the game or who was watching the game in the stands. The hell?
This account from ABC News seems to have more detail:
The fan, who was not a student, was sitting in the BYU student section, and was identified by Duke during the game, according to BYU. The fan has since been banned from all BYU athletic venues.
“To say we are extremely disheartened in the actions of a small number of fans in last night’s volleyball game in the Smith Fieldhouse between BYU and Duke is not strong enough language,” BYU said in a statement. “We will not tolerate behavior of this kind. Specifically, the use of a racial slur at any of our athletic events is absolutely unacceptable and BYU Athletics holds a zero-tolerance approach to this behavior. We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University and especially its student-athletes competing last night for what they experienced.”
The athlete has claimed that officials and BYU staff were aware of what was going on but didn’t do anything about it during the game. I wonder if other people did not want to be interviewed because they might have been asked why nothing was done, or why the people around the offending person didn’t tell him to shut up.
calmest passenger ever, no fear of flying, at all
Wait a minute. You can drag a dead body through a TSA checkpoint? Ummm… what?
Only if the death occurs after check-in. That had to be confirmed by security tapes.
Just put sunglasses on it and move it like a puppet, we’ve seen it work before.
The family might not have known it, but they had run into one of air travel’s many gray areas. Without a formal death certificate, the passenger could not be considered legally dead. And US law obligates airlines to accommodate their ticketed and checked-in passengers, even if they have “a physical or mental impairment that, on a permanent or temporary basis, substantially limits one or more major life activities.” In short: she could still fly.
It looks like if you want Weekend with Bernice, the airlines prettymuch have to get you there.
Wouldn’t the passenger’s disability prevent her from evacuating the plane in the event of an emergency?
And surely giving her an exit row seat was a mistake?