Well, no. Doing it as a commercial activity makes it different. For one thing, they're trying to skim a profit off this. And if you've spent time with people you know, you have a general idea of their level of cleanliness.

So, here's a question - if Airbnb is enabling a ton of people to break the law, could that fall afoul of state and federal racketeering statutes?

I'm not sure that's the biggest risk. Unregulated food production used to make an unbelievable number of people sick in this country. Sort of like diseases before vaccines.

Actual bed and breakfasts in the United States, operated as a commercial enterprise, have to be insured, inspected and in a building that's got appropriate zoning or a variance.

What the hell? This just isn't legal in many places. In New York State, you CANNOT serve people food commercially, cooked and served in your own home. NYC regs ban it as well. It's a health code violation on its face, and in some jurisdictions it may be a zoning violation as well.

So here's my understanding, as a very lapsed Catholic.

Any MD involved in these procedures shouldn't just be disciplined, they should be facing Federal civil rights charges.

By the way, anyone who hasn't heard the version of "Do You Love Me Now?" as well as the cover of The Who's "So Sad About Us" on the Safari EP (and included in the 20th anniversary release of Cannonball). should run to listen to them.

The school has a legal obligation under Title IX to do just that. The Federal Government requires it. And the legal standard that the Department of Education is currently telling schools to operate under is a "preponderance of evidence" - a "more likely than not"-level of proof. If you are not doing that, your…

Wilmore has significant experience as a writer and producer - that counts for a lot on a show like this.

Don't worry. With the rise of tests to show "career readiness" starting in kindergarten, we'll push those self-esteem issues down to younger and younger kids!

I have to wonder if if they're getting the drugs from veterinary suppliers / manufacturers, or some sort of fly-by-night compounder, rather than stuff that's approved for use in humans made in inspected facility. As ridiculous as it might seem, that would likely be enough to end the executions. And the states are…

The creator of those materials is, apparently, entities preparing PARCC materials that many states are using for CC. The questions aren't coming from the local folks. Given the unbelievably badly-worded questions that exist on the tests today (I've seen some samples), it's hard to argue that the tests are…

What I'm seeing on PARCC prep materials and homework are the kids being asked to draw very, very specific kinds of pictures for specific kinds of problems.

Part of the issue - and I have a kid in this situation - is that if you have a kid who's good at math, but terrible at drawing pictures - grading becomes about his or her ability to draw out a picture, rather than to understand and solve the problem, which is bullshit. Most of the time he can solve the problem in his…

Let's face it - the part that sucks is waking the kids up. As a parent (and we had standard baby monitors - the kind that you could pull the audio from with an old enough TV that had a UHF band that went high enough), that would piss me off.

It's likely that they can at least prevent him from making any management decisions beyond whether or not to sell his stake in the team. MLB did that to Marge Schott, the late, former owner of the Reds. Once you lose day-to-day control, you're likely to sell.

Sports leagues have a lot of control over who can own and who can run a team. MLB banned Marge Schott from being the managing general partner and the CEO of the Reds after she made comments praising the domestic policies of Nazi Germany. She also disliked the Japanese, Jews, and African-Americans. She sold her stake…

I suspect if you were to take a poll, many Americans think more highly of folks in the adult industry than the folks who run JP Morgan Chase.

The effect where disgust reactions are reduced during sexual arousal? That doesn't generally apply to you, when you return home and have to clean up whatever substances the renters have left around your place. You've got to have a strong stomach or an iron wall of denial to actually want to deal with that.