Alas, I have been outvoted. But for posterity.

It sure sounds like Smollett did what he was accused of, but it also looks like the Chicago police and DA colossally fucked up this case. Maybe the police and DA should be the ones reimbursing the city.

Chicago PD are claiming they worked a combined 1,836 hours of overtime over two weeks, solely on this case. 1,836 hours is 76.5 full days worth of time. Spread over a full 14 days, that’s over 5 hours of overtime every single day.

I have no idea how long it takes to investigate a high-profile crime and how much of an…

Chicago cops are so dedicated to misconduct that they set up secret undocumented blacksites to carry it out.

“1,836 hours of overtime” but really though? 24 people in two weeks put in 76.5 hours of overtime each, thus extra hours over their regular shift, on this? That seems really inefficient.

Look, I don’t really care what you think about Jussie.  Regardless of the merits of his case, Chicago look like fucking idiots here, and there seems to be no valid reason why.  It’s not like cutting deals is some sort of newfangled legal strategy.

You’re right, coach. When I think “accountability,” I think Michigan State.

Or it could accelerate the arrival of the time you spend being miserable.  Diabetes is a bitch. 

After the terrible Blurred Lines decision, lawyers would line up around the block to take this care on contingency (if they thought he had a case).

Except, “This is America” was recorded a year before “Pharaoh” according to Glover’s manager.

Fair enough, but what about when you consider the artificial scarcity of a mass produced product primarily marketed to and consumed by those who can least afford it?

I’m having a really hard time with the use of the word “culture” around a hobby rooted in an industry that has always been about multi-billion dollar corporations charging hundreds of dollars for something that cost a couple bucks for people who are essentially slave labor to put together in an overseas sweatshop.

The Black Israelites are a known crazy, they are there almost every day. The answer is to ignore and not engage, as people do everyday. The answer is not to form a mob and surround them like a bunch of bored, entitled brats. This situation was created wholly by these kids, they need to own up to it.

I still see a huge group of like 100 kids who could have walked away at any moment and yet gleefully escalated at every turn. All because they don't have the maturity to ignore the crazy street preachers

It makes about as much sense for a professional athlete to have conversations with strangers about the professional athlete's work product as it does a commercial airline pilot. The stranger more than likely has no fucking idea what needs to happen to produce an excellent result, and can only tell whether the 737…

I’d never heard of nor seen these two before today. Different people have different interactions and histories with pop culture.

I almost feel like Ted took the wizards as a favor to Abe Polian or something, like to save them from being under Dan Snyder.

I think one thing is clear: Ted Leonsis doesn’t care about the Wizards anywhere near as much as he does the Capitals.

Damascus is a public school.