Only if he had something to gain form it. Tywin always seemed too practical to burn down a city for no good reason.

Read the column again. I’m sure some people are angry because they wanted Daenerys to be the good guy and win the game, but all the serious criticism i’ve read is about the execution, not the character turn per se.

Look man it’s ludicrous to say that there’s been a steady and naturalistic change in her personality over the course of the show. Pretending that there has been is such a weird hill for people to die on.

How does her killing slavers, traitors, and people who threaten to rape her to death lead to her killing hundreds of thousands of random people for no reason?

People keep saying this like hockey is a real sport anybody should care about.

Piss-poor take. It’s like someone who only watches the Super Bowl and no other games all year complaining about a crucial ineligible man downfield penalty that affects the outcome of the game. Horse racing has rules. “Leading the entire way” and “quickly straightening out his horse” is all well and good but the foul…

Exactly, I bet you can find dozens of similar example, but now we live in bullshit world where no one can accept losing anymore. 

I think the only reason for the delay was because it was the Kentucky Derby.  That would have been called in about 2 minutes at Santa Anita.  (Not that I’m there a lot or anything.)

Hasn’t this sort of thing always been present in horse racing? A jockey could always question how another horse ran and get that horse DQ’d for something like this. That is why they won’t cash tickets till the scoreboard says “official” and this system exists because horse racing survives off gambling, which is why it…

Firstly, while Prat was the one to officially object, that doesn’t mean the other riders didn’t object in any way to it.

That horse wound up lanes outside where it started and absolutely could have killed the other horses AND the jockeys. War of Will’s legs actually wound up straddling Security’s for a few strides, and AFTER that move you can see Security move back inside to the rail to try and keep the inside off a clean line as well.  

The use of the term “veering out slightly” doesn’t come close to describing what happened, even if it does serve the article’s narrative. With three horses mounting a passing attempt to his outside, he veered out more than a full path, impeding one horse and crowding two others. The jockey on War of Will (#1) thought…

I mean, if this wasn’t the most famous horse race in America that decision would have been made in like 3 minutes

You know this takes bullshit, right.

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.