I'm sure that someone at this fine establishment has noted the resemblance before, but man, this dude looks a fuck of a lot like Tommy Wiseau.

Man, he needs to hire like three or four more unscrupulous lawyers just to keep up with the new accusations coming in day-to-day.

It doesn't need to be intended ill to be taken that way. When a story pops up about rape and your first reaction is to critique and dissect the victim's behavior, that is a) the default response for most Americans, so don't pretend it's a bold contrarian take, and b) harmful to victims who would rather not have their…

Mallory Ortberg has already perfectly expressed most everything worth expressing.

http://the-toast.net/2013/1…

I hear you, but as it stands, it comes across to me as humorous, which is I'm sure not the effect you're going for. Sometimes the force of a phrase needs to yield to accuracy, particularly when the inaccurate (or imprecise) version creates a weird incongruity.

The trailers for this are so fucking stupid. Is there any occupation important enough that hack TV writers will resist the temptation to throw in garbage about the female lead's inability to manage her romantic/family life? Would a trailer for a drama about a female President be obligated to assure us that her most…

some women who claim they had dalliances with Kelly as teenagers have said the experience drove them to suicide.

For some reason I read that as the philosophical position of materialism, not a synonym for "consumerism." I thought it was kind of odd that Cameron would be sticking up for the former.

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"Isn't the situation a bit different, though, when the accused has two prior violent offense convictions, plus a record of repeatedly violating parole and probation?"

An analogy: if every time a celebrity's pregnancy was reported, the story pointed out that the expecting mother could face death in childbirth. This is both true and not a useful way of thinking about the risks of the situation.

Protip for reading articles about crimes: "up to" sentencing figures are literally meaningless. The statutory maximum penalty essentially never matters.

It's really going to take me five years to ignore all this random bullshit?

"Wait, settling out of court counts as an admission of guilt now? Great lawyering there."

"After all, he'd been publicly accused of rape"

"Shit, it turns out that I know less about the law off the top of my head than an actual lawyer."

"I'm not aware of a statute of limitations for civil proceedings"

And then a journalist interviewed several of those 13, and they spoke on the record about what Cosby did to them. See http://www.phillymag.com/ar… And yet Cosby hasn't tried to sue any of them for defamation. I wonder why that might be?

I don't even understand why Michelle Monaghan continues with this British false identity. There's really no shame in movie stars working in television at this point.