In the US, you would be charged with assault/battery.

And cash.

And construction.

... the announcement calls it “a never-to-be-televised event.”

Womp womp

It's nice how easy it finally is to get baggy pants and good flannels again. Need to stock up before they go out of style again.

I've always (at least since my teens) considered any movie that came out within the last ~10 years to be "relatively new/recent". Anything less than 3 years is new/recent. Same for music.

The families of people who serve in the military should not be treated better than any other American family is, so this is not a new low, it's just the same low as usual.

I'm not sure I would go with "nice guys" anything, what with how poorly that has turned out to be as a self-appointment descriptor. I think we need a new aphorism. "Good guys get trampled" or something.

This meme implies that his match was the geography of India, not his army.

Even American restaurants aren't so bad that they automatically add gratuity (except for large parties it's typically 8+ people).

They've trained you well.

I never thought that I would see a legit folk hero in my time.

So hard to care.

Wary of the stories I've covered about CBP searching electronics, I didn't bring a working cellphone with me. Around 10:10 a.m., I walked up to the intake desk for the waiting room and asked to use their landline phone. "Our landline?" the agent replied, confused that I would even ask. I said that I wanted to contact a lawyer. He flat-out refused.

"Since the international arrivals inspection is an administrative function, CBP policy and federal regs do not permit the presence of lawyers during secondary examinations," CBP spokesman Stephen Sapp tells me. In other words, when I'm under an administrative rather than a criminal investigation, I have fewer rights than someone accused of a crime.

And so much more and worse. Everyone should read the article.

Makes you wonder if dropping them all over the damn place is such a good idea.

The prescription I need is somewhat new/niche, but I will look into this.

I'm here waiting on insurance to approve a medication I need, like, eight months ago and which costs over a hundred thousand dollars per year (before insurance gets the negotiated price).

It's because, at a glance, the tan coloration in the one from 1978-2003 could easily be mistaken for a cornucopia.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Edit: I'm not surprised to see that this is a popular response.

Another, different, one is The Fisherman by John Langan.

Not how commas work.