We have no coffee AT ALL in this office because nobody wanted to be responsible for (a) making a pot of coffee in the morning or (b) rinsing out the carafe at the end of the day.

I ended up buying a $10 coffee maker from Target about 5 years ago because of this. Not only was I the one making the coffee, I was the one cleaning the coffee pot at the end of the day. I didn't mind doing one or the other, but both of them every day? So, I tried an experiment. I just didn't clean out the coffee one day, and someone actually came into my office and asked me about it. I said "I happened to buy coffee today, I'm sure that one of the other people who drinks coffee can make it". And I kept doing that. That coffee stayed in the coffee maker so long that IT GREW MOLD. I didn't know that coffee could do that! Finally, someone cleaned it out. I bought my coffee maker the next day.

I still have it.

I get angry beyond words when I think about the WWII-era internment situation where Japanese-Americans were getting rounded up while my German immigrant great-grandfather went about his merry way, and his son joined the US Navy.

And the Germans didn't have to sign a loyalty pledge to get into the armed services once the US realized they needed more soldiers. I once got into a screaming match with a former co-worker who argued that the internments were appropriate. She was German, as am I.

People, mang! Fucked up from coffee makers to internment.

What does show them your papers mean? Is a driver's license enough, what else would you carry? What if you don't own a car? I don't understand how this law would even work.

What if you don't own a car? I don't understand how this law would even work.

Theoretically, you can get a non driver's ID. Although I don't think that anyone should have to pay for that.

Do you need to be a citizen to get a driver's license?

Eva Longoria is one of those Texans who were originally Spanish, then Mexican, then American. They did her genealogy on the recent PBS show with Skip Gates, and found ancestors settling on the land where she grew up in the 1500s.

I think Queen Noor was also descended from Charlemagne. No wonder she is a badass.

Theoretically, you can get a non driver's ID. Although I don't think that anyone should have to pay for that.

Everyone that I know who doesn't have a driver's license has gotten a non-driver's ID, but that's mostly because most of my friends are in their mid-twenties and still likely to get carded for alcohol.

They were doing a story about this on NPR last night and some dude who loves this law kept saying, "This country was founded on laws and the obeying of those laws" or something. At which point I yelled, "No. This country was founded on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. So shut it yokel."

Do you need to be a citizen to get a driver's license?

No. In most states, if you're not a citizen, you need to show your visa, but you don't need to be a citizen.