The problem with this argument is it ignores the fact that media coverage is often driven by what people want to read. Stories on Trump get, and always have received, clicks (and eyeballs in the real world) and so column writes feel obligated to write more of them.

This is actually one of the better comments here.

The MPA is definitely not PwC’s biggest account. They handle accounting for tons of tom firms worth billions.

There’s an interesting article out there somewhere on this, but it comes down to the fact that the Academy hired the folks to print the award envelopes, and this year they didn’t want to use the person who designs professional invitations because he was too expensive. But that person knew it was important to have…

Well, PWC took responsibility as a company within three hours of the fuck-up (although the head of the Academy was furious they didn’t do it sooner) but the more important issue is that if they had NOT assigned direct blame and had not explained exactly what went wrong, their relationship with the Academy would be…

Here in California we have the California Stop. Learn it, Live it, Love it.

A vodka Martini is a cocktail. A gin Martini is a Martini.

Maybe because he was too busy singing?

I know I’m in the minority, but I actually thought Shakespeare in Love deserved to win Best Picture.

That’s not how I interpreted it...She seemed to grab it from him and read it for him while he was still trying to process what was happening.

Uh...where do you live in San Francisco where that stuff exists in people’s driveways? The Bayview?

Sadly there are numerous people who have had to eat a wide variety of things after betting against Trump lately.

No, it doesn’t. All murder is killing, but not all killing is murder. You do realize that, don’t you?

tl; dr.

Why is it expensive? Whose fault is that? It’s not the fault of pro-capital punishment folks that there are lawyers who draw out clear-cut cases for years and charge the state.

Not sure why my answer got cut, but we imprison people who imprison others (people guilty of false imprisonment) and we “kidnap” people (arrest and take away) people who kidnap others. Saying that the punishment should fit the crime is *not necessarily* the same as saying that the punishment should be the SAME as the…

You don’t get to define death as a punishment as being uncivilized just because civilized nations don’t do it. That’s a stupid tautology.

No, it should NOT focus on rehabilitation. The #1 thing prisons should focus on is keeping people who have committed crimes away from the rest of society. Rehabilitation is nice, but I want that asshole who broke into my car and steal my belongings imprisoned so he will not victimize another person again. The…

There’s prison, and then there’s prisons within prisons, solitary confinement. He’s 22. He has a looooooong time to go from being in solitary to being moved out into the general population, and when it happens, it would happen with little or no fanfre. The point is, he would still be alive. he would still live and…

There is no way that he will not be able to have a life in prison, if he lives in prison. It may be a sad life, but it will be one nonetheless, and he will always have the (for him) happy memories of the one time he “did something”. I want to deny him even the slightest joy for the pain and anguish he caused others,…