Intra-Google wars over shrift hireage! There'll be nerf-bat battles in the hallways.

Honestly, from the way they originally had me scheduled at the end of next week, it does seem like they're trying to scoop me up before another department gets to me.

Honestly, from the way they originally had me scheduled at the end of next week, it does seem like they're trying to scoop me up before another department gets to me.

That puts such a huge smile on my face!

Bidding war!

Hmmm... if I go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant that has a policy about no doggie bags, yet I try to pocket some food, I wouldn't be too surprised if they called the cops. So I extend the principle to the distribution of Communion wafers.

I have my fingers and toes crossed. And I'm thinking about ritual vegetable sacrifice. And trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to wear.

How much are you paying the church for your communion wafers, Theo?

I'm so jealous of your Google interview, shrift! I hope you get the job. What type of job is it?

What type of job is it?

Something in the Google Death Ray department?

who is the victim?

I'd been thinking that the church was the victim. It's a fair point as to whether there was a theft and, therefore, a crime. And since it's been 20 years since I studied any criminal law that wasn't white collar, I'll let others argue the point.

As to cheapening the idea of a hate crime, I think of a "hate crime" as (1) a crime where (2) the motive is hatred of a group. Which means, if something is stolen from a Catholic church because it belongs to a Catholic church, the motive could be seen as religious bias.

So, any theft here would be at least arguably a hate crime. Which doesn't mean that a sensible D.A. would necessarily choose to prosecute anything that way.

What type of job is it?

A Troll-be-gone Google api, I bet. You use Google Earth to locate them, and then you use Google Magic Wand to take away their web access.