Born and raised here and I’d say there’s plenty of bigotry in the cities. Just because people don’t burn crosses, doesn’t make them anti-racist, there’s a lot of space in between.

Indian is hit or miss, in my experience. For East Asian, we have lots of southeast Asian (Hmong, Vietnamese, Thai), Chinese-American, and Japanese restaurants, less so authentic Chinese or Korean.

“Industrial space” really isn’t that offbase, it was mostly a warehouse for their mail order business. Any retailing happened later.

He did make a statement later in his apology specifically acknowledged that aspect, at least:

Hey, the water in Flint was fine in 2004. They didn’t change their source to the nasty af Flint River until 2014.

“He claimed to have what he described as a consensual relationship with Rah once she was an adult.”

Since Furby had no recording capabilities, this is definitely dumber.

Particularly when they are children or teenagers, as many (most?) of Nasser’s victims were.

Bleh, I just started reading ESPN’s big feature and the opening anecdote is about some grooming he engaged in around age 30, which would be 1993 or so.

She’s not even the first victim, just the first person that talked to the right journalist: “Denhollander would later learn that women and girls had come forward before she walked into Nassar’s office in 2000.”

Those chain letter gift exchanges are generally illegal if the post office is involved at any stage. https://www.snopes.com/secret-sisters-gift-exchange/

My favorite Robert F Chew trivia is that he was an acting teacher in Baltimore for decades. A bunch of the young actors were his students.

Aw, that made me tear up a little. Such good doggos!

Cracker Barrel?

Yes.

I don’t believe they’ve ever claimed her passing was illegal - it honestly seems like the guy who freaked out is just an angry, angry dude.

Commercial purposes is one item weighed in determining fair use, but it is not automatically unprotected.

They are being charged with obstruction, among other things.

The one asshole was illegally teaching his too young kid to drive, and she passed them rather than hang out behind their car.

Your comment implied he was charged with murder and that was an overreach. But he wasn’t charged with murder.