Doesn’t a LEO need probable cause? So is a policeman seeing a woman pumping gas with a large belly probable enough?

More like a law to make it illegal to TRAVEL to play 7 card stud with bigfoot. You can technically pull anyone over under suspicion of going to play a card game with a cryptid. And oh, if you were to find (or plant) some evidence of some other crime, well that’s just icing on the cake.

I still don’t understand how this is in any way legal. As long as the person is of legal age I don’t understand how you can tell someone they can’t cross state lines to do something legal in the other state.

Perhaps not a popular take on this site but why on earth would someone who has filmed themselves fucking and put it out there in the universe run for competitive office?

Am I way off here?

You’re all for “sex positivity” but you seem to think that filming yourself having sex should disqualify you forever from running for office because that shows bad decision making skills. You cannot fathom that one might enjoy sex with their partner and use it to make a little extra cash and then some time later in…

You can’t kidnap people, even if it’s for a good cause. He gets to decide if he wants to be in treatment unless he’s a danger to himself or others.

I wish people could be taken into treatment in less dire situations. I called 911 for a homeless woman with an obvious foot infection who was getting wet from sprinklers…

I mean, it is a petty, stupid move to text someone’s wife to tell them to get their husband to change a vote... but are those really threatening messages?  He’ll lose his job is the closest that comes to a threat and that doesn’t do it for me 

This is my problem with a whole lot of historical fiction. I can understand the work of creative nonfiction, where a writer/researcher sometimes has to fictionalize a conversation between two people that we know happened. But the way that a lot of historical fiction makes real people into characters often seems to…

Yeah sure, it’s for the victims. ‘Taking back the narrative’ for women by appropriating small out-of-context details of their lives so you can graft your own voice and sensibilities on to them as if they were fictional constructs instead of human beings. Gross. It’s gross every time someone does this with a person who…

In Coppola’s movie, though, we see him lunge at her on the bed, saying, “I’ll show you how a real man makes love to his woman.” “Stop,” she says. After some struggling, he gets up and we hear him offscreen in the bathroom. The camera stays trained on a crumpled Priscilla. The screen fades to black. The wariness…

This was a badly badly written and poorly researched article about what appears to be a badly written and poorly researched book.

Everything Democrats do, *everything*, is calibrated on how afraid they are of what republicans will say about them.

Yeah no.

It’s annoying that Dems would allow themselves to be bullied about children’s safety by the party banning types of healthcare for kids, and notably opposed to doing anything about school shootings.

Do we really need another Bundy based or Bundy adjacent related book?

I think you intuitively know the answers to all those questions. No lender on the planet can move this fast, and even in the absurdly unlikely scenario where she paid cash it couldn’t be negotiated, documented (including title work), filed, and funded in anything close to this amount of time.  He may have been on meds…

Laws about real estate California needs: Anything that reduces local zoning control or anything that reforms CEQA usage on residential real estate projects.

I bought a house and it took a month. And my house wasn’t that expensive. How is an entire multimillion real estate contract being executed in less than a week?

Go after reverse mortgages first (you can call it the Magnum PI bill if you want) since those are ultra-predatory.