Good post. It is also important to note that the murder and accident rates are higher for the U.S. that many of its peers, thus contributing to the lower life expectancy.
This is so sad. More people are killed there in a month than has been killed in the entire Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And yet they only protest the latter.
Whether or not mandatory tips are still tips, and whether or not they are a good idea, is not really the issue here. If the menu had set the mandatory gratuity in writing, then there was a contractual agreement that the patrons would pay it regardless of service, just like they would pay for the food regardless of how good it was. This is a risk the patrons agreed to take prior to eating there.
“In 1990, 50 per cent of New England residents identified themselves as Catholic; by 2008, it dropped to 36 per cent following the clergy sex abuse scandal in Boston, according to American Religious Identification Survey 2008.”
Wow, I have a feeling those 14% weren’t all that religious to begin with. Seriously who abandons the most important thing - faith - based on the poor actions of a few? Also, I suspect that other things happened between 1990 and 2008 to account for that drop.
I’m well aware of Apple’s small market share, which is why I’m baffled to see just as many Macs as all other computers combined every time I’m in a coffee shop. Do they purposely write in coffee shops to show off their Macs? How alternative.
Well it seems to me that the airplane is private property, and can demand more than the government. Regardless of what the law says, don’t you think you have the right to ask someone in your home to cover up or get out? Of course you do. And the same goes for this private business.
Yeah the issue here was never about breastfeeding. It’s about covering up. Nothing unreasonable about that, and I hope the airline wins and can recover costs and fees.