Crash statistics are generally published as an injury and fatality *rate*, so the fact that people drive more is already factored in. Driving is ~750 times more dangerous than commercial air liners per vehicle mile traveled, so assuming the Slate analysis someone else posted is accurate, it’s still 3x as dangerous as…

Forest Moriaty?!?! Was he raised to be the villain of a 90s talking animal cartoon?

Worth noting that the poll tax bill was written to allow county level judges to modify the original sentence, something the populous blue counties are taking advantage of to reenfranchise their citizens. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/florida-felon-voting-rights-amendment-4-counties-poll-tax.html

He is *the best*. I’m so glad he’s back for another season or so.

You win that bet! From WP (with citations):

Probably In The Dark (season 2, season 1 is about the Jacob Wetterling case). It’s an American Public Media show, so very well researched.

The victims’ families from the original crash did sue, I think 5 or 6 suits total. They all settled. Clearly not for enough. 

The person he paralyzed was a friend. The people he killed were all strangers. “the then-16-year-old drove his father’s pickup truck into a group of people helping a stranded motorist. Four people, aged 21 to 52, died as a result.”

Except it doesn’t come from just one old study, there have been many, including the recent meta-analysis they linked to (which included studies up to 2014). If you’re not familiar with meta-analysis, it’s essentially analyzing multiple studies together as a group, taking into account the strengths of their size,…

AFAIK the only net dehydrating beverages are alcoholic. 

See: Wounded Knee occupation

Maggie Smith has said the same, that she doesn’t watch her own work. 

The slander is the implication that she slept with a source for information, which is incidentally a claim that female reporters have long been subjected to. Nor did they need that particular but of fiction to make her an interesting character , she had a drinking problem among other things.

The point is you could find-replace “sex workers” with Uber drivers, maids, nannies, amazon warehouse employees, or any other number of jobs and the same questions would apply. Somehow we only pontificate about exploitation when a poor person sells their body for sex rather than any other kind of labor.

One court case is not remotely the same as “Kids have no right to free speech at school.” Some limits are allowed, but by and large students in public schools retain free speech rights. 

False:

There’s rules requiring a speedy trial, too, but that hasn’t prevented plenty of people from languishing in pre-trial detention for months or even years. Looking at you, NYC. 

Jefferson’s (enslaved, of course) chef was James Hemings, Sally’s older brother, and he later trained his younger brother to succeed him when he was manumitted. Also Jefferson’s brother-in-law, given that James, Sally and their siblings were half siblings to Martha Jefferson. So pretty good odds that James is the one…

Are you familiar with cable television?

Sadly he is apparently coercing her into signing a consent form giving him access to the information. (He used the word “cajole”, but ya know.)