Martin Luther King Jr., Hugh Hefner and Mike Pence

And for some reason, the terribly stereotyped Italian accent starting from a Japanese company is kind of endearing, whereas coming from an American movie studio would be a little offensive

though anti-abortion members like Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) might still be tough to convince

I didn’t even realize what you wanted substituted in for “accuser” was “alleged victim”. First, they could absolutely do that, I agree. Second, I’ll do you one even better: Jez should be able to simply refer to Hough as Kenneth petty’s “victim” (no alleged about it.) Even though he didn’t plead to the first-degree…

My immediate thought re- the MET Gala was that she was there to cultivate some support from rich liberals looking to boost their progressive bona fides by donating to a wildly popular grassroots progressivist candidate.

If Republicans weren’t going to play ball on a $15/hr minimum wage (which is overwhelmingly popular with liberal and conservative voters alike,) they sure as hell aren’t going to go to bat for the group of people whose continued oppression is the literal cornerstone of their platform; and they’re certainly not…

They have all made it their mission to make Haiti suffer for the last 200 years.

I get where you’re coming from—anything even resembling “neutral language” is not what you want to see in these instances. But there just won’t be a Jez for very much longer if they aren’t at least a little mindful of avoiding actionable defamation—and particularly where the individuals being discussed are as litigious…

I think it’s just part of a broader phenomenon: we’re more likely to rely on, and trust our personal experiences and opinions of people, than we are accusations made by strangers; especially where those accusations may not square with our experiences. I can only speak for me, but I would want my close friends and…

I read a couple of articles about this, but I’m still not understanding why Minaj and Petty started harassing this woman—please don’t get me wrong, I 10000% believe they’re doing/did it, I just don’t understand why. Why, after almost 30 yeas (and after serving time for this,) did Minaj and Petty even start trying to…

I can get down with that, but the issue here is that the actual bill we’re talking about would not affirmatively require a doctor (any doctor,) to perform an abortion. In fact, the bill doesn’t actually force (or prevent) doctors from doing anything—this bill, if passed, would simply create a restraint on an…

This is my reading exactly. The fact that a Doctor won’t perform the abortion because their god told them not to, does not prevent the patient from getting another doctor to perform the abortion. Collins may think she’s towing the fine line between both positions (for and against abortion,) but this is just more…

I am not going to defend the United States’ actions in the region literally ever. Neither am I taking the affirmative position that there is such a thing as an “essential nature of the Afghan people” (though admittedly the popular ‘graveyard of empires’ historical metanarrative gets uncomfortably close to it,) or an…

But it didn’t add to the basis for recovery because the plaintiff never had standing (much less any type of claim) to sue some random person because someone else got or performed or assisted in obtaining an abortion.

Honestly, I can’t even bring myself to watch Handmaid’s Tale or Man in the High Castle — no knock to what I’m sure are well- written/performed/made shows, but I’d rather just take a hot bath, or rewatch Parks and Rec for the 50th time than to knowingly subject myself to 44+ minutes of human misery/Republican fantasy…

However, it’s not a novel legal issue. The only novel issue was purely procedural - private parties being delegated authority by the State to sue doctors performing abortions prior to viability.

Afghanistan had a government that, whatever its faults, guaranteed equal rights for women.

which lets the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overturn Roe v. Wade without actually doing anything - just refusing to grant cert.

Like 15-20 years ago (when I was in high school and college,) I was totally sold on the idea of nation building, and firmly believed that anyone living in an authoritarian theocracy, or dictatorship would naturally come around to the idea of some form of self-governance (if not representative democracy.) And while I…

Agreed. I don’t think most people who have seen Maisel or Ted Lasso would take the position that neither show is deserving of accolades, isn’t well produced, written, acted, etc.