Firefighers/EMTs/Paramedics are the true heroes. That's a "don't touch" zone.

Don't blame it on CA. KKK types have been moving to northern Idaho for decades now. They tried to do a terrorism as a pride march a couple years back and got caught because the police found so many U Haul trucks in the area to be suspicious and checked out a few.

This is me. Grad school was about interest not work.

It will turn out that the corporation exists in Nevada due to some sort of tax break years ago.

One of the biggest bits of propaganda of all time.

It can only be fact after going through some sort of tribunal.

It’s a classification system. Basically the bigger universities that do the bigger research and bring in the bigger research money.

Hello fellow Knight (in someone’s service)

I work for an R1 university and have had multiple siblings gleefully claim that where I work is a cult that needs to be shut down. They don't even have enough empathy to wish me well in my life.

It seems like every 10 years or so a story like this comes up.

I remember in the 90s there was a case of a teenager who vandalized or put graffiti on a building in some place like Singapore and was sentenced to caning. There was this huge outcry about how cruel it was and such, and I remember (I was in high school) thinking that the guy was an idiot who made how own bed.

Then you get Otto Warmbier who somehow was allowed into North Korea and then decided it was a good idea to rip a post of the country's founder off the wall.

The lesson? Know where you are. When you're not in Kansas, then don't do Kansas things. Consequences are different in different parts of the world. It's really easy to be a respectful traveler.