Other than no longer hosting the Academy Awards (a job apparently no one really wants?). What thus far have been the practical consequences for Hart? And/or what are they expected to be?

So what’s the defense here? That Jeffrey was trying to wield the car as a weapon against the officers (thereby constituting as “immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to . . . another person”)? I could see that as a viable defense—for a trial. It’s not like this guy was firing shots into the air or…

I am wary of underestimating someone who achieved something terrible because most people underestimated them.

Louis CK can apologize all he wants, but it doesn’t mean shit.

in James Gunn’s case, he actually apologized (which is rare), and as far as I know only conservatives continued to “rake him over the coals.”

There are people who are going to agree wholeheartedly with what you’re saying, and some people will see your comment and write you off as a complicit bigot who is happy to amplify oppressors. I really can’t conceive of someone in between. Griping about knee-jerk performative outrage and the excesses of call-out…

His net worth is in the nine-figures, and he’s never had a serious or dramatic role. So while I don’t know what your definition of “widely” is, I dare say that enough people seem to think he’s funny. I doubt they care that he made some homophobic comments in 2009 that wouldn’t fly today.

Kevin Hart will be fine. I’m fairly certain the majority of his audience (the people who go see his movies, stream his specials, and otherwise consume his work) aren’t going to be very rattled by any of the ostensibly bad things he’s done or said thus far. I have never gone to see a movie because Kevin Hart is in it,…

They’ve basically set themselves up to fail when they do not produce a game and portrayal of WOC that is perfect and sensitive in every way; that is all things to all people.

A game about a white guy running around blasting people needs to take care to not do something overtly racist/sexist/what-have-you. But in this…

He clearly understands new media and how to troll people. It’s how he got himself the hundreds of millions in free press that helped him win the Presidency. He baited Warren into playing a game she should not have. What happened was not remotely unpredictable.

Based on what? Conservative media will amplify this forever, and there is no shortage of lefties who will never let this go.

The people in a position to continue supporting Warren could also continue to do so solely on the bases that conservatives hate or are afraid of her; and that Trump set up a trap (which she admittedly fell into), which plan was contingent on liberals reacting precisely as they/we have reacted.

students are allowed to ask questions regarding the findings, but not to directly cross examine each other

such as Barry Scheck putting forward testimony they KNEW to be implausible (DNA on a gate can’t degrade into someone else’s DNA) and whether that violated the canons of the profession.

My point is that cross-examination is just a tool, and if it’s used to impeach the credibility of someone you’re rooting for, you’re going to think it’s bad—at least in that instance. But I very much doubt that it has become any better or worse than it ever was.

cross examination has descended into “smear the accuser”; it doesn’t actually aid a search for the truth as much as it poisons the well.

Often the same crowd that post long copy-pasted screeds from the work of Ayn Rand exalting in the wonders of the free market.

I think I speak for many of us when I say....

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra has already ruled that if Edwards and his clients can prove that Acosta and the federal prosecutors at the time violated the act back in 2008, making the deal with Epstein illegal, he’ll throw out Epstein’s deal.

True, but (a) what’s even the penalty for that; (b) what is the criminal statute of limitations for a knowing violation of the CVRA; (c) what are the odds that the person currently serving as the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida under Trump is going to indict Trump’s Labor Secretary for things he did…