You would literally say the words “Triple-X-tentacion” with the italicized part pronounced like the word in Spanish.

There’s nothing shameful about being a lumberjack, but I wouldn’t want my my kid to do that job because it’s dangerous. Incredibly dangerous. One of the most dangerous, in fact.

that could mean having to disclose something so deeply personal and painful. “Unfair” in the sense that it’s cruel, not in the sense that it’s illegal.

I’m not sure what details you’re referring to exactly, but I agree that they (Luke’s counsel) doesn’t need to do much beyond deposing Perry, as her testimony either makes or unmake their case completely. The entire case turns on Perry’s testimony; it literally either proves one of the elements of his cause of action, o…

NoOnesPost is trolling. Either that or they’ve purposefully affected the rhetorical style of an argumentative tween. Seriously, read some of these replies.

The question then is what she claimed her source of that knowledge was in the litigation. Certainly what you present is an interesting hypothetical (and an admission by a party-opponent is an exception to the hearsay rule, so the statement would absolutely be admissible), but is that what Kesha is claiming as her…

Luke is the Plaintiff, which means that he bears the initial burden of proving the elements of defamation by a preponderance of the evidence. In this case, he has already proven that Kesha made a particular, defamatory representation to a third-party (they have the texts Kesha sent); pretty much all that’s left is to…

This is an instance in which you could very easily impute malice—it’s known that Kesha does not like Luke (and certainly for good reason—but that good reason doesn’t change the fact that she dislikes him strongly) and there’s little or non-malicious motive for (ostensibly) falsely claiming that Luke raped someone.

We may not know what Katy Perry said during her deposition, but if Luke wins his defamation suit against Kesha, I would take that as a strong indication that Perry did not corroborate what Kesha told Gaga.

No one is saying you’re not smart, or that I’m smarter than you. Having said that, I stand by my statement (which you quoted in your comment to me above).

All public defacement or anything related to graffiti should be decriminalized. At most it should be a small fine.

HAIM would not be “employees” — a festival is a gig. At best they’d be independent contractors. I wouldn’t be surprised if HAIM the band were a corporation or LLC owned by the individual sisters, who employ themselves.

Their music is not exactly my bag, but I always watch interviews with them for precisely the reasons your cite. They’re intelligent as all get out, and hella fun to watch.

It’s like you’re taking the position that a male act getting paid 10x more than HAIM is categorically unacceptable regardless of the circumstances, and that’s absurd. I have no doubt that HAIM’s outrage in that situation was reasonable—but I’m also sure they knew who the male act was and that that act’s fame/draw…

Pretty sure Lil’ Pump just wants to look as bizarre as possible.

Maybe you mean to say “as if this somehow excuses their disturbing video”, because it absolutely does change the context. What is depicted here may still be unacceptable and wrong—but this would be written about and reported differently if the frat’s membership had been 100% white, male, and Anglo-saxon.

Kim Jong-un is a tinpot dictator with tentative nuclear capabilities who has conned the person currently inhabiting the most powerful office in the history of the world into easing crippling sanctions from his country, and normalizing and acknowledging the legitimacy of his regime, all in exchange for North Korea’s…

I think the shows that those two characters were each featured in were brilliant ensemble comedies.

Does that factor in inflation? I think I remember movie tickets costing like 9 or 10 dollars for students at the AMC I frequented, and that was a gross pig sty—today, a plush, clean reserved seating theater ticket costs me like $13-$14.

I am walking into this movie looking forward to being fed a familiar, predictable formula.