I must admit I have never seen any episodes of OINTB so this reference is going completely over my head. :)

What if you film a police officer beating a homeless person to death (something that has happened) and you can’t track down the victim’s family members? That’s an easy domestic example, but would this law also cover sharing international videos? While I think execution videos can bring out a rather distasteful level…

I agree that this was horrific, but duty to rescue laws don’t require you to fight an armed attacker, and in a situation where you can’t safely intervene, there can be significant value in documenting the situation. Since the victim and the murderer apparently knew each other and there were so many witnesses he…

Next-of-kin notification can take awhile sometimes, even if the police do everything right. The PD can only notify the legal next-of-kin in most places, and if that person has moved and not updated their information or something simple like that, it can easily take a few hours to track them down. Sometimes there are…

I think people are referring to it that way because several of her photos were taken near ancient petroglyph/pictogram sites (IIRC, at least one of her photos showed her climbing on a fragile petroglyph site). She was defacing areas that have historic significance as well as natural beauty.

Yeah, I have some complex thoughts on graffiti art, but I am *never* okay with it in our National Parks and other public wilderness areas. I’d be just as pissed about Banksy doing what this chick did. Maybe even more so because his fame would inspire others to do the same and attract his fans who may not respect the…

I’m not an expert but I follow a lot of NPS news, and tbh this seems relatively harsh to me, especially if she is ordered to pay significant financial restitution. Which does seem pretty likely to me, as financial punishment seems to be what the NPS seeks in a lot of these situations.

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that that was the *only* reason it happens, but it does seem to be a common cause in a lot of the Ambien horror stories I’ve read. :) I don’t sleep well but I’m too afraid to take it myself because knowing my luck, I’d have the same experience you did!

My understanding is that a big part of it is that you have to take it when you’re already in bed. A lot of people take it as they’re getting ready for bed, and if they “go to sleep” while they’re still up and about, it can have weird effects. If they’re lying in bed with the lights off, they’ll usually just actually…

Yep, that is very true. There are still parts of the queer community that don’t think legal marriage is a good thing, though they’re less prominent than they were.

As an old LGBT person, I remember when Clinton was surprisingly vocal and progressive about gay rights. People like to shit on her now for DADT but they forget that it was a compromise to get something passed and she was vocally in support of letting LGB people serve openly in the military way back in the early 90s.…

Exactly. I’ve had personal experience with someone like this, who is really wonderful when he’s sober and yet so nasty and abusive when he’s using. It’s like he’s a totally different person. We’ve been estranged for many years because it got to a point where I don’t care how long he’s been sober, I’m not sure I ever…

Ligers, maybe, but interspecies mating does happen in the wild. Polar bears and grizzlies mate sometimes (and it’s becoming more frequent as climate change causes their territories and habits to overlap more), and donkeys absolutely will get it on with horses without any encouragement (source: had an intact jack and…

She was his court-appointed attorney and actually talked to the prosecutor about getting the judge to assign someone else because she was uncomfortable defending the guy (something the prosecutor has confirmed), but that’s not really how that works (someone has to defend him, after all). So she was ethically and…

I’m so sorry that happened to you.

I hadn’t seen that! That is funny. :)

He does a pretty convincing impersonation of a human being on The Voice.

Or Elizabeth Taylor for that matter, who had a more active role with the fragrance development but pretty much sold it on her own personal beauty and glamour.

...Knightley, who could not possibly have had the confidence in her musical ability that someone who has trained for years would, thus Carney’s perception that she’s “faking it”. Of course she is! It’s her job!

Right? It is just mind-boggling to me to see how the public perception of her has changed. A lot of my younger friends literally do not believe me when I tell them how she used to be viewed.