I'd be surprised if there WASN'T an appeal, not so much because Thicke and Williams can't afford the settlement (financial or song credit-wise), as for the precedent this sets for bad law and future IP ambulance-chasing legal trolls. I wouldn't be surprised to see other music artists, moguls, and industry types join…

Dubya: "Nah...just ask Condie Rice...I'm down with the swirl..."

"(I know I'm gonna get hated on for this one) smoking a cig and drinking a glass of wine in the bath with a good book."

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As a Seahawks fan, I'll answer your retort with the immortal words of Eric Cartman:

The article is pretty much spot on about the black cultural zeitgeist back then, speaking as an African-American the same age as Kravitz and Bonet. When she did Angel Heart, it cut through the middle of all the internal race-class-skin color bullshit within the black community. The Old civil rights types pretty much…

The spork one only lasted a few seconds for me as the shadowing and ambient lighting quickly helped me to differentiate the convex and concave. I'm sure lighting, hue, and shadowing has an effect on perception as well.

Jokes aside, that's sort of the impression I came away from the article. Conservative, western types always mock Islam because Muhammad married a 9-year-old and deflowered her at 11. Yet this article reinforces the idea that, at it's root, Christianity celebrates assault and statutory rape (forcing an underage, by…