I'll bet that kids were dragging their pencils along that concrete, ostensibly to sharpen them, and this was the way to (attempt to) get them to stop.

When you swim in a creek
And an eel bites your cheek
That's a Moray

Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.

What a dichotomy...like how the Pro-Tolerance crowd is *really* intolerant of any beliefs or speech they dislike.

There was something amazing on her dress, though.

That's what she asked me! Oh wait, now that I think of it, the words were in a different order.

Apparently, those of us who object to China's activities "need to educate ourselves."

It's no longer $150. It's like $90 a year to subscribe to Office 360, which includes the two applications you want plus several you don't.

Taking photos for your followers (if any) and friends--About a 2 on the jerk scale.
Purposely screwing up other people's products (that they pay you for) out of the need to police that behavior: More like a 7.

Some people: Lots of violence in games and movies can desensitize some people to how horrific violence is.
Some other people: hA! tHeY sAy ThAt ViDeO GaMeS *cAuSe* ViOlEnCe! tHeY sO DuMb.

Left Front: Phone, handkerchief, spare mask
Left Rear: Comb
Right Front: Car Key Ring with car fob, key ring with other keys (work desk, house key, mini-multitool, etc.), Carmex tube, change (always leave with at least four pennies so I never have to bring home more than I left with)
Right Rear: Wallet
Jacket pocket: Mini flashlight, pen & notecards, another mask or two, ziplock bag of dog treats for my own dogs plus good boys/girls I meet, business card carrier with a couple business cards, a few napkins or paper towels, bandana

My dogs answer "I'm 'Drop It'" and "I think I'm called 'Get Down!'"

There are a lot of people who want to restrict you from doing things they themselves do. Most of the ones who don't want you, a responsible adult without a criminal record, to be allowed to own firearms are in fact guarded by those with firearms. Politicians who want to pass a law with a higher minimum wage don't pay that higher wage to their interns, or even the CURRENT minimum wage.

A couple presidents ago, his first action as US Prez was to restrict the kinds of jobs the outgoing cabinet members (plus other White House appointees) could take, and then right before leaving office eight years later he repealed that edict, so it only ended up applying to the previous president's cabinet. Some politicians pushing a "net zero carbon" agenda own several mansions, but they offset that with carbon tax credits they purchase from companies. OK, if you really believed that the carbon emissions are ruining the planet, paying a little extra tax DOESN'T UNDO THAT DAMAGE.

What's that coming out? A toad stool?

But what would be weird is if fuckery doesn't map onto the complex space, like it needs a Laplace transform or something.

What kind of illustrated family is this, where the dad doesn't even have a pipe?

Animal sacrifices?

One of the things they track is "Diversity." I wonder if diversity increases or decreases the likelihood of unionizing. That is, does a highly diverse workforce lean pro-union in some way, or is a more diverse group able to be fractionalized, with more "lines" that can be used to separate "us" from "them?" And of course, the lines can be changed to make it seem like "that gender" is being better served, or "that skin color" has an advantage this week, or people from that church/synagogue/mosque have an advantage, depending on the union-preventing theme at the time.

And of course it should be "Les" and not "Le." Les Francais would be aghast.

As long as people can choose to work in a factory or not, the choice should improve things overall. Having another possibility besides drug manufacture and prostitution, especially if there's more than one garment factory, gives an alternative despite people in the developed world thinking that the work is too hard for low money (based on *their* economy's standards).