“I apologize for what I said and sincerely wish to avoid this in the future.”

I was cringing at the number of grammar errors as I was reading her hot takes. Then, I got to the end and at least she realised it as well. Yeah, LOL, Sammy. If your gonna come for royalty, put some proper effort into it.

Well, that sheds an even grosser light on his Trump comment. 

Thanks. Wasn’t sure if the upside down/both hands thing was supposed to mean something more specific. Such gross fucking people.

Yeah, somehow I don’t think the whole ‘it was an innocent hand placement taken out of context’ works in this scenario. Is the upside down hand signal a part of the symbol or is that just this guy being particularly imbecilic?

WTF. Such fucking garbage people.

What gesture is that guy doing with his hands?

Her first public statement after the payout was revealed completely denied any sexual encounter at all with him. Only when her texts were leaked did she change her story publicly. I don’t believe her at all (about this I mean, I do believe her about Weinstein) and think she is an abuser of the worst kind. Her first…

Of all of the things about Scientology that are deeply concerning, their public ‘responses’ to former members is not really that big of a deal. But, it is really one of the most jarring things to me. The absolutely vicious attacking language they use about former members is just so... not religiouslike!! I don’t know…

It doesn’t really matter whether his message was problematic- or it does matter in general, but this was specifically a eulogy for Aretha Franklin, so whatever ‘agenda’ he or anybody wanted to talk about, no matter how righteous, would be god damn inappropriate and disrespectful unless it had something to do with…

There have been two referrals to the ICC since the Rome Statute entered into force, in 2002- Darfur (GWB); and 2010- Libya (Obama). Under GWB, the US abstained and so did China. That they didn’t veto the referral was considered a huge victory. For Libya, both the US and China voted for the referral.

That’s very nice of you to say and you are very welcome! ICC jurisdiction is difficult to understand for everyone, but anyone who took Civil Procedure in law school would tell you its complicated everywhere and that’s without throwing in the Security Council : )

They are asking that the case be referred to the International Criminal Court. Myanmar is not a state party to the Rome Statute (the treaty that governs the ICC and binds states parties), so the only way the Court could get jurisdiction is by the UN Security Council referring the situation to the ICC.* Basically, the…

Based on Laura Lee’s tweets, she deserves to suffer the biggest fallout from this. WTF, lady. 

“While the specific anecdotes—that he allegedly uses a tanning bed in the White House daily, that he guzzles around eight Diet Cokes a day, or that he has never read a single piece of legislation he’s signed”

If you go through the methodology, you find that the US is ranked 3rd for sexual violence and 6th for non-sexual violence. It doesn’t show up in the top 10 for any other area.

He did. Last night and then performed “Born to Run” as a part of his concession speech and dedicated it to her with his endorsement (this is what I read from the WashPost at least).

Yeah, I must say that if your (not you, but Splinter) political understanding is that there are: 1) Democratic Socialists and 2) everyone else who can’t apparently be distinguished at all from Republicans...well, this is the kind of extremely limited and shallow view I suppose you end up with. Like I said, I’m not…

Force of habit. I work in international criminal law and, yep, in my field, all accused criminals, well the male ones, are always addressed as “Mr”. So, yeah, I say and write “Mr Mladic”, “Mr Bemba”, etc. After a decade, it actually sounds quite odd to me to just use a person’s last name, even for war criminals : )

So, I am not from New York and maybe the really ugly tone in this article towards Mr Crowley is based on something of substance, but how about you actually say what that is then? A hell of a lot of aspersions going on here about a man from what I know of his record is pretty progressive and liberal. Is he as…