I have no doubt there is a very hefty retainer involved in this representation. Trump is obviously notorious for not paying his bills; I doubt the nth law firm to involve themselves in his circus wouldn’t have taken precautions to protect their interests--though there’s probably some value in being known as the kind…

First, that’s a problem for the partners to worry about; every defense firm I’ve ever heard of bonuses associates based on hours billed (and, in some insurance defense firms, hours actually collected/not slashed.) Second, given how notorious Trump is for not paying his bills, I very seriously doubt this latest set of…

Easy there—Catholic would mean abolishing the death penalty, and we can’t be having that. No no, I’m sure there’s a bespoke Evangelical church/Super PAC/paramilitary death cult whose dogma and doctrine are conspicuously designed to be every bis as awful as humanly imaginable.

“‘He is a nightmare for his lawyers. I mean, you have somebody like Trump, who has a fragile ego, who is a misogynist, who is a racist, in my view, and who also has this constant need to talk? Then, there’s a term for that, logorrhea. Then, that is a real problem,’ she told CNN. ‘It’s going to be an issue for his…

“was the only logical conclusion to our collective crypto nightmare”

It doesn’t seem like you’re rebutting my point so much as offering justification or something—but I’m not really condemning what the labor organizers are doing. I get where they’re coming from—I even say they can’t be picky about how they get their press. And look, it’s working: here we are talking about this when we…

The labor organizers will call out the behavior because they want/need the attention, and there’s really only one tone/vibe with which can approach the story (i.e., outrage, scorn, pearl clutching, etc.) Frankly, they need all the help they can get, and can’t afford to be picky about their opportunities to get press.

The comment wasn’t made in an acontextual vacuum apropos of nothing—as written, it raises the inference that this behavior evidences that Klum is anorexic. That is the purpose of the comment, to very strongly imply she’s anorexic without coming out and saying so explicitly. And when you determine that another person…

“These irrefutable photos and videos”

Why would the (apparently monolithic) Black community need to do that if Black people have never actually been on “equal footing” with white people in our society?

“‘[S]ometimes, when you try to think ‘outside the box,’ you forget why the box is there’ - whatever that’s supposed to mean.”

“Carlos Santana got real transphobic at a recent concert. Not smooth. Not smooth at all.”

I’ve used bone broth in the past as a tasty means of supplementing electrolytes through a “whole food”—it’s definitely *not* any kind of meal replacement. Like you probably shouldn’t just have bone broth for lunch or whatever.

I don’t think that’s among the criteria used to diagnose anorexia in the DSM-V.

She has a BMI of like 20.4—I think that’s a healthy weight by practically any recognized standard. Hell, the U.S. Army requires that all soldiers maintain a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9; Klum is well within that.

“a verse about harboring Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories”

I don’t know that “mourn” is the right word, but I’m prepared to believe he didn’t take pleasure in it, that he carries with him the certain knowledge that he’s forever morally compromised, and that he understands that these were terrible things that were done on his orders—and that he doesn’t get to think of himself…

Statistics about dead women aren’t going to be persuasive to the Justices that need to side with the liberals in order for this decision to go our way. If such statistics were persuasive to those Justices, Dodd wouldn’t be a thing.

I will be looking forward to seeing Aaron on this year’s Bachelor in Paradise, (for which all other Bachelor shows may as well be farm leagues.) That said, the next season of The Bachelor is going to be boring as hell. Joey is a nice enough seeming guy, but he feels a little tepid; milquetoast if you will.

“Shry is a ‘nonviolent alcoholic’ who ‘sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers.’ He added that she becomes agitated by the news and starts calling people and threatening them.’”