At a price determined by the government, of course, and disregarding the fact that someone whose family has owned the same house for generations...
The site I linked claims that you can lose your home in civil forfeiture. I'm not a lawyer or even lawyer-adjacent, and I fervently hope that I...
And remember that the next time someone grouses about calling one-cent coins "pennies"....
I'm not sure I can say that the coins I find have greater meaning to me, but the EVENT of finding a coin by luck or chance gives me a lot more of...
But since the middle is broad, they outrage it at their peril. I wouldn't be surprised to see major civil-forfeiture reform in my own remaining...
So many of the faults of English can be laid at the feet of French. And then France has the nerve to maintain an Academy to preserve the virtue of...
https://ij.org/case/philadelphia-forfeiture/ There's precious little protecting "you" from becoming a target of an investigation. And when that...
When my family was traveling back and forth between central VA and central MD in the mid- to late 1970s, there was a field on the east side of...
Wes Wilson, specifically. And I expect he partook.
They're bison, but in the US we always called them buffalo, even though they're not much like actual buffalo. Similarly, for a long time, we...
Oh, "civil forfeiture" is a very real and pernicious thing. You can read about it (and about this Beverly Hills heist) at any news outlet of your...
Yeah, I'm willing to go along with the artistic text -- I've always been a little jealous of the stunts Arabic calligraphy pulls -- but it's...
Yes, and what a shame. :(
Sure do, and I'm wearing them. They won't let me see alllll the way over to where you're holding the coin in your hand, though; all I have to go...
I see all the glitter, but I also see what looks like wear on Abe's shoulder/arm and across the top of the Memorial. It looks like the luster is...
Not directly. Click on the "filmstrip" icon: [ATTACH] You'll see this popup: [ATTACH] I upload videos to YouTube on the rare occasions that I...
I love that presentation arrangement for the Peace dollars!
That disembodied ear is going to haunt my dreams.
You can question the motivation of these "new collectors", and you can question their chances, but you can't question that they represent a...
This is a good opportunity to link to this excellent thread on whizzing. Whizzing obliterates Mint luster, but if you arrange the new wire-brush...
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