What kangaroo court convictions? Bill Cosby hasn't been convicted of anything. You're not entitled to due process in how people form opinions and judgements about you.

Did they cook the pig? If this was my husband's kitchen, he'd be instructing the staff to catch it so he could cook it, and he wouldn't be kidding. We've had some nefarious plans for the local wild turkeys involving a pellet gun.

My husband and I discuss people we think are attractive, including people we see passing us by in public. At length. We're very weird though - we are both so on the same wave length it's occasionally mildly disturbing, and weirdly comfortable enough in our relationship that we discuss having crushes on friends and…

My husband and I competed at binge drinking and binge watching this summer. I won. And definitely gained more weight :(

Gotcha. Sorry, I'm not that good at paying attention to people's icons or screen names.

Wild animals can go psychotic when they're kept in captivity or as trained pets. Dogs and cats have tens of thousands of years of evolution modifying their natural behavioral patterns; we domesticated dogs before agriculture. You can't just take a wild species and expect the same thing.

I think that's a chimp.

Part of property law - if a donor attaches conditions to an endowment, then the school could be legally barred from using that money towards anything else. You'd have to look at the terms of the Cosby trust in this case.

It's legally fair use. Check out this related case on a website titled "Bally Sucks":

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Thanks. Any general tips on how to search? I've never used twitter.

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Does anyone know how to find out about protests going on in a given city? I'm pretty ignorant about social media.

...and for why there isn't another attempt to secure an indictment.

At the end of the day, though, I don't blame the grand jury. I blame the prosecutor, the DA's office, the justice system, the police department and the governor. Our system is set up to sustain this kind of institutional violence by police and structural violence against minorities. If the government actually wants to…

Seriously. Did no one think it was a major problem that an officer of the law looked at a human being and saw a demon, not a person, not a man whose well-being needed to be protected, or at least balanced against the officer's own safety concerns?

I didn't see the show, unfortunately...mostly because I just wasn't that interested in a Rock project that was blandly appealing, so perhaps my assessment itself becomes kind of circular.

That male commentator was an idiot, interjecting with that objectifying commentary on a woman who's come forward to talk about her assault and the structural violence women face.

What I took from the Leno-Conan-Falon succession is that the position seems to need someone who is in some way broadly, even blandly appealing. That's not Chris rock. I don't think I've ever seen him as uncomfortable or unfunny as when he hosted the Oscars. Jon Stewart was a failure in the same way.

Yes, Piers, let's write an article blaming black people for the discrimination they experience, and tell them yet another thing they're doing wrong and must change to avoid having violence inflicted upon them.