The attached check for $50K made the picture look a whole lot more convincing.

With crimes, there are levels of intent known as mens rea. If something requires one to act knowingly, then “I didn’t know” can be a defense to defeating the crime because the person is stating that they did not know all of the facts or reasonably be aware of facts that would constitute illegal conduct.

Folks get tickets on the daily for not seeing a speed limit sign, a woman got jailtime for accidentally voting incorrectly, and someone died for selling loose cigs.

You can’t tell me that “I didn’t know that $500,000 was an iffy amount of money to spend on a ‘facilitator’ for my clearly unqualified daughter to have…

How is anyone convicted of a crime if all you have to say is, “I didn’t know.” It seems (to me) that it is the same defense Trump is using. I was always told that ignorance is not a valid defense and I’m pretty sure that regular people would be laughed at as they put on the orange suit. The fucking privilege of the…

They’re thinking if the defense works for Trump, it has to work for them.

This makes me think about Don Jr. for being too dumb to know what he was doing was wrong. Like if you’re a Black or Brown person you can get arrested for a having a small amount of weed on the bottom of your shoe. In some states if you get into a fight and kick the person in the stomach your crime can go from assault…

So Canadian I’m crying into my beer and listening to Stompin Tom, cause the Leafs lost game 7.

Evidently, every kiss did not begin with "okay."

I worked in the diamond business at the lab/wholesale level for about 10 years, and this doesn’t surprise me. It’s what you get with an industry that is heavily male-dominated but aimed at women. Selling mall jewelry in a lot of ways is like selling cars - it’s all about getting people to make emotional decisions…

My aunt was interviewed and photographed for this story. She loved her job for a long time. Loved it. She’s the fun aunt of the family. We’d stop by her store to watch her do fancy stuff in the middle of fancy things; corporate suit on, bunch of paper work, keys to everything. And even as kids we noticed she was…

Can we petition this hilarious youtube guy to read it for us and make videos?

Cottage weekend? You Canadian? I’m half Canadian on my sister in law’s side. 

I was speechless for on the order of five minutes after listening to just a few seconds of that.
Wow, that is terrible.
So terrible, I know now why we must never acknowledge it exists.

Yup.

“for the entirety of the book regrets that decision.”

The only possible explanation for that accent is that Groundskeeper Willy and Jack Nicholson in The Depahted taught him to speak.

What American calls them “knickers”? What Brit says “ass” instead of “arse”?

HOW IS THIS GARBAGE PUBLISHED WHILE MY GENIUS STILL GOES UNACKNOWLEDGED.

time a’ day ... taike... waive ... yer... ya ... been ta .... Neithah ... Aye”

The Undergraduate is the story of a chainsmoking, hard-drinking, guilt-ridden Catholic college student named William who gets a women pregnant and wants her to carry the pregnancy to term to later put the baby up for adoption. But instead, William reluctantly acquiesces to the woman’s wish to get an abortion, and for…

Speaking as an author, this line is pure gold, just the pinnacle of writing and word-crafting: She looked almost bohemian, but she wasn’t dirty or anything.