Let’s not make this lift any heavier than it already is. Setting aside the fact that it’s basically impossible to amend the Constitution (given that neither party seems able to pass anything with even 60 votes in the Senate, let alone, and you’d need 2/3 of both chambers, AND ratification by 3/4 of States legislatures,…

Agree with your take. However, there’s a fairly vocal subset of very “online” people in whose esteem Munn can do no right.

Not every employer is like Jezebel where one can get away with not doing the basics of their job.

Apparently, body weight *can* effect one’s singing voice, but the affect seems relatively minor, and moreso has to do with the endocrine system than any “structural” factors. It seems there were all sorts of ideas and notions held by elements of the opera community having to do with weight and vocal range/quality that…

This is probably the most popular song with Swift fans off this album (and the original,) so naturally she’d want some spectacle and pageantry to promote the release of her re-recorded version. As I understand it, Taylor’s version of Red, and this song, broke some Spotify records over the weekend. So I guess this is…

I question how long this will last. People have short memories and even shorter attention spans—assuming Republicans do as well as they’re projected to in 2022, and that same trajectory holds for 2024, Chapelle’s somewhat childish need to transgress for its own sake will probably pale in comparison to whatever…

I wonder if they could finagle a deprivation of civil rights claim against KR?

I’m not 100% on how that works; but my kneejerk response is that they can’t go after him piecemeal for charges that could have been brought as lesser included charges to the present indictment. In other words, if he’s acquitted for murder 1, but the prosecution didn’t bother indicting on lesser included charges like…

I’m not an expert on this at all, but I think to violate Federal law for simply possessing the weapon (rather than crossing state lines with it,) the weapon itself needs to be illegal; in other words, it would need to have one more outlawed features, or features that require a Federal stamp (e.g., automatic sear; a…

Agreed; but even in the case of a mistrial without prejudice, you still wouldn’t be dealing with an appeals situation.

You know, I was thinking about this too, because I recalled reading that even if Derek Chauvin had been acquitted on state charges, there were Federal agents standing by to take him in to custody on Federal charges as well. I think what distinguishes Chauvin (and other killer cops,) from Rittenhouse is probably…

If we can sterilize migrant women at the border we should be able to do this.

I’m 100% with you on the corporate reporting idea. I appreciate that it would create a trove of endless tickets for whatever kind of grievance, but I think that if you limit it to strictly sexual harassment (or other abuses with a sexual animus,) you’d probably reduce the problem, though a certain amount of “noise” is…

It’s probably vastly easier to keep tabs on franchisee supply chain obligations than individual hiring practices. The company that McDonald’s has designated as the go-to vendor for whatever products has a vested, capitalist interest in franchisee’s meeting that obligation. It’s not difficult to set an accounts…

I’m an attorney, but not an appellate attorney. That said, I think it’s important to note that if Rittenhouse is acquitted, there is no appeal. If Rittenhouse is acquitted on all charges, he goes free (full stop.) If he’s acquitted of some charges, but convicted of others, the convictions are appealable, but the…

I’m sure that just about anyone considered liberal (within the liberal/conservative binary of modern American politics,) today would have been considered liberal (to varying extremes,) in the 80's and 90's. The reverse probably isn’t the case. McConaughey’s politics, what little of it we’ve heard about, seems to jibe…

It really feels like the only position I’m interested in (as a non-Texan, mind you,) is whether he’s for or against S.B. 8 and similar abortion restrictions. I don’t expect that, if elected, McConaughey would govern in some manner wildly out of step with my/our stereotypical notions of what Texans like or want; I…

my assumption is that he needs to set his personal record straight, publicly, because he considers himself to be a public figure outside of the world of acting, as many famous people do.

There has to be some kind of criminal neglect statute that encompasses the teacher’s complete failure to stop this girl from actively being abused.

Shit, and here I thought the worst thing to happen this week in the Rittehouse trial was Grosskreutz testimony—I’m not sure certain how I would have prepped him to testify, but I remember watching the tail end of the defense’s cross-examination and thinking to myself, “goddamnit, you just set this asshole free.”