TheLastConformist
TheLastConformist
TheLastConformist

“Bad reaction to Ambien” sounds like a plausible explanation for his behavior, to be honest.

Sad to hear this. I went to school with his daughters and so met him personally a couple of times. Middle school is when you start to be able to distinguish the genuinely decent adults from the fakers, and he seemed to be on the genuinely decent side.

Most likely, someone on the show’s production team knew and told Varner, then encouraged him to use it in a way to create maximum drama.

What is happening is that the judge awarded Dawn shared custody rights even though she is not biologically related to the child, who is biologically Michael and Andrea’s child. Michael was fighting Dawn having shared custody rights because, if Dawn did not have shared custody, he would only have to share custody 50/50

It may end up before the Supreme Court. Especially if the Fourth Circuit finds in favor of Grimm, though, it is entirely possible that the Supreme Court will deny cert and let the ruling stand until there is a circuit split (until some other Circuit finds that Title IX does not cover anti-trans discrimination).

I don’t think that part was anti-science. It’s not “climate scientists destroy the world,” it’s “dangerous last-ditch effort to stop one global climate disaster because the time for reasonable and safe responses has passed due to human negligence and arrogance causes a different global climate disaster.” Which doesn’t

Was trying to remember what movie I was thinking of that already did this! Didn’t connect it to Snowpiercer immediately because it was only mentioned in passing there.

It already exists, right now. And it’s pretty damned embarrassing, to be honest, but I feel like straight people should be embarrassed of The Bachelor, too.

In the older trailer it’s clearer that his existence was kept a secret from the general public because he wasn’t supposed to have been born on Mars in the first place. (The implication seems to be that his mother either had kept her pregnancy a secret or didn’t know she was pregnant when she left for Mars, and for

Sounds pearl-clutchy. But, also, nothing in this technique suggests you could actually combine the nuclear DNA of three individuals anyway. That would be way, way harder than any of the other ideas contemplated.

You’re misunderstanding Zipf’s law. The idea isn’t that each city is about double the size of the next-largest. It’s that the relative ranks of the cities also determine their population ratios. So NYC is about twice (2/1) the size of LA, but LA is only about 1.5 times (3/2) larger than Chicago, Chicago is about 1.33

Right. I mean, she definitely deserves to be prosecuted, but it’s hardly clear that she deserves it *more* than many officers who weren’t prosecuted. It seems like the police officers and prosecutors only close ranks around their own when “their own” is part of the old white boys’ club.

It’s Oklahoma. They shoot non-Bible books on sight. She just had bad aim.

This sounds like an article written by a white person who wants to be angry about racism. And, lo, it is!

Outside of Iran, there really is just a single answer: Saudi Arabia. 40 years ago, the Saudi royal family had had 40 fewer years to spread conservative visions of Islam across the Muslim world.

Sharing bacteria is good for you. The amounts you’re being exposed to through skin-to-skin contact are far too low to cause infections, and your skin is also an excellent barrier against infections, so getting bacteria on the surface of your skin is harmless, but the exposure does boost your immune system and reduce

Could be worse. It could be the border between India and Bangladesh:

Go complain about videos of people using helium to make their voices high-pitched instead.

It is a co-op per the Jezebel article. Didn’t read the NYT article to double-check that, though.

It depends on who you ask.