Recent content by jladam

I will never for the life of me understand why people get so upset about something that has absolutely no affect on their lives. Corporations update their brands to better reflect the ever-changing values of society all the time. And it has absolutely no affect on my life or anyone else's for...

They're is only one problem with people discussing sports at work and that is this: A bunch of people standing around talking about a non-work related topic - regardless of what that topic is - when they should be fucking working.

Amateurism in sports died a long, long time ago. As hurtinbuckaroo pointed out USOC gave up the facade in 1992 at the Barcelona Summer Olympics when the Dream Team first played. Since then it hasn't hurt the Olympics in the least. As a matter of fact the Olympics are more popular then ever...

So, if he did a "backroom deal" to make the charges go away, he must have held some pretty powerful cards to play. What could they have been? They must have been some pretty powerful cards. After all, it's not like he's a multibillionaire owner of an NFL franchise trying to make a minor...

It was a high profile case, which they usually like. Yes, Smollett was rich, but he was by no means a sympathetic figure. Many of his supporters turned against him after he was charged. And Cook County prosecution and law enforcement's notorious history of covering up their own misdeeds is...

What you said. Prosecutors do not just out-of-the-blue drop a sixteen count criminal complaint and move to have the case sealed just because all of a sudden they feel sorry for the defendant. Prosecutors normally don't like having cases sealed. They like their good work to be available to the...

Correct. It would be an unusual case. It would depend upon how he left his post. If his country simply reassigned him to a non-diplomatic post, but one in which he would still be able to maintain his diplomatic immunity then he could have still been recognized as diplomat. In many cases, the...

Under 8 U.S.C. 1481 it doesn't matter whether a person is a U.S. citizen by birth or naturalization, they can lose their citizenship by joining any armed force that is engaged in hostilities against the U.S. Here's the appropriate section of law...

Under law a diplomat can stay if (1) he or she can legally change their visa status to a different visa category AND (2) he or she fully gives up their diplomatic immunity in writing and under oath.

According to other news reports that I've read some of them, at least Hoda, are not.

8 C.F.R. 1182(a)(3)(B) is pretty clear on this: There is an exception for a spouse or child who is also inadmissible. However, one problem with her case is that she wasn't a spouse when she first joined up with ISIS. Anyway, I seriously doubt that they apply the exception to her case, nor do I...

I'm sorry. Could you please explain again how this negatively affects your life?

This is actually reminding of the "Stoning for Blasphemy" scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian with the Republicans playing the part of the two Roman soldiers at the end of the scene that just look at each other and shake their heads.

One way I would tweak the OT rules that would actually have zero effect on the way overtime is played is this: Instead of flipping the coin at the end of regulation to see who gets the ball first, flip the coin at the beginning of regulation instead. That way if a team is behind late in the...

I'm originally from Kansas so I went home last summer to visit my brother who is a chemical engineer for an agrobusiness in rural Kansas. I remember him telling me that in Kansas the family farm isn't dying. It's dead. It died a long time ago. And yet everyone in rural Kansas is in complete...