Assuming that Gawker is wrong (I’m not familiar enough with Florida case law to know how supported their argument is that Bollea’s constant bragging about his sex life makes this not an invasion of privacy, but it’s not a facially absurd argument), they were - here, have a couple million and go away - wrong. Not $140…

You have an amazingly correct take on the basic trial issues going on here. Kudos.

What Gawker did (and has done a couple times) was gross and unforgivable, but not illegal. The entire trial in the Florida court has been a shitshow and the judge (who holds a record for overturned cases in her county) pretty much set out to make sure the case went one way.

I think there are a few different things going on that are concerning people. As a former litigator, I’m most bothered by how ridiculous the judge is. I don’t care how angry and offended that jury was by Gawker posting the sex tape, the actual damages number was not supported by the evidence. It’s perfectly absurd.…

Apparently there is proof that the sex tape was filmed with Hogan’s consent, and the fact that he is lying about that part/ is funded by a right wing bigoted fuck head makes me begrudgingly team gawker on this one. They fucked up majorly with posting the sex tape and should have to pay some sort of amount, but 140…

Meh, I don’t like either of them but Amber is young and shouldn’t waste any more of her life and youth on this drunk mess.

This happens all the time. I visited Edgar’s Mission, a local farm sanctuary, and they said they get calls every day from people trying to find a home for unexpectedly enormous pigs. And micro-pigs aren’t even available in Australia.

My two-houses-down neighbor (in SF, not the countryside) has an enormous pot bellied pig that he takes on frequent walks. I LOVE this pig. It is just enough pig in my life. I’m pretty certain I don’t need any more pig in my life.

You can’t complain about ratings when you’ve partnered with NBCSN & so many households don’t get that channel. I would love to watch the NHL Playoffs but I don’t get NBCSN. I have satellite (mid-tier package) and the only games I’ve been able to watch are the ones on CNBC or NBC.

I’m in my thirties now and working in legal aid. I would have to have an actual brain injury and total amnesia to see what I see every day in the lives of my clients and turn around and become conservative. If you open your eyes to the reality of the effects of politics on people’s lives, I don’t know how you can…

But I think the term “conservative” came from being fiscally conservative all around, which would also include the military, right? I mean, of course now it’s out of control, but that’s part of the current problem. I could be wrong, though.

Agreed. I usually hear it spouted by people who had no head when they were 20, and never decided to get one.

“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no head.”

Starred because it deserves to be ungreyed. But I disagree that conservative policies are reasonable about money - see our military spending, the long term cost of cutting funding to health care, social safety nets, and education. It doesn't matter if you save a dime here if you lose a dollar later because your…

It’s nice when people talk about how fiscally conservative their policies are and then when you point out that free birth control prevents expensive health care and welfare costs down the line, for people they don’t want reproducing anyway, or how free/cheap public housing for the homeless drives down spending for…

Right? My first thought when I looked up the address on the map was “Oh, that’s as secluded as you can get around here. Good.”

Gorgeous house, just gorgeous. I love driving through the neighborhoods of the Rock Creek Park area; they are all amazing. That Kelly woman is an idiot, though. No fucking way is the Secret Service going to allow a former President to move into a struggling DC neighborhood, even if he wanted to (and really, why would…

I get the feeling that Obama could run into a burning building and singlehandedly rescue an entire Lamaze class full of women and fetuses, plus a basket full of adorable puppies, and certain people would still find something to criticize about it.

”You are my Sunshine” is not a song about how we are all really happy and content

Neither “Every Breath You Take” nor “This One Goes Out to the One I Love” are love songs... at least not ones that you should play at a wedding.