Escorting? This is private property--post signs and *shoot on sight*

Derived from Leitch, the royal “the”

I’m sure this is what you’re referring to, but she’s not just superrich from Seinfeld etc., she’s also a direct Louis-Dreyfus heiress (LD being a major energy infrastructure company)

They should have actually done that instead of the last movie

Puerto Rico got $18B in aid and is much less useful to the (real) US than France is

Worth mentioning that the spire and roof that collapsed weren’t from the 12th century—they were replicas built in the 19th.

Since you mention the Eiffel Tower, I had that exact same thought yesterday—it’s much more important to Paris than Notre Dame and yet it was built only last century and considered an eyesore for a long time (one that hosted a giant neon Citroen ad at one point)

The point of the Theon-Yara rescue was to either tease or pump-fake the Exodus Theory

To whom does he have to repent exactly? The only one he wronged was Elin, and she left him and got $100MM for her trouble. Whether he has “made amends” with Elin is rendered moot by their divorce and is none of anyone else’s business anyway.

Well Jared’s case is one where the university is selling its asset directly instead of having it essentially stolen by an agent of the university, who—induced by a bribe—sold the stolen spot on the black market for way below the university’s asking price.

Good point and agree

Well “European” has its ambiguities too, and is probably a bad way to describe someone. The question in this article is really more specific to baseball players though, and Hispanic describes 99% of the “Latinx” players in the league without using a really poorly constructed and redundantly gender-neutral phrase (one…

Well the tollway that failed in Texas was constructed for $1.3B and financed with a $400MM federally backed loan and $900MM of private equity, so yes the private entity that owned the equity in the road went bust, but the feds still have a $1.3B book value road to recover its $400MM liability with (and meanwhile Texans…

Well, yeah, I would not refer to a Haitian as Hispanic. I would probably call them Haitian. Same with Brazilians.

Well the specific crime in question isn’t that it’s unfair. The specific crime is fraud, with the university as the victim.

“Hispanic” does that already

I usually tee it up with tufts of grass in the rough.

Stocks are claims on assets and property that produce cash flow.

A stock trading below its IPO price means that the selling shareholders got a good deal from their underwriters

A good way to avoid hazing for all time is don’t join an organization that is known for hazing. Or once you’ve joined and you decide you don’t like it, quit.