I get Twitter removing a strike against the account, but doesn’t Twitter’s statement imply that the actual video in question will be made public again as being a monetizable asset of BSS, rather than (or in addition to) the content creator?

Was she supposed to know that the BSS council’s attempt to contact him constituted a “good faith effort to resolve the issue?” You would think that, at the very least, Twitter would have to be CC’d on all correspondence and specific language would have to be used like “this constitutes notice under subsection C of…

Is that a detachable baby car seat in the foreground? I need gifs of what his grandchild looks like.  Or...great nephew...whatever

Yeah, I’m not saying that he’s not scum.  I’m just saying he didn’t do ALL the scummy things that were listed.

Is Hillsong part of the US Military hierarchy that forgot that the policy was rescinded in 2011? Also, for all the good things that happened during the Clinton administration, starting DADT was a real head-scratcher.

he was not involved in the rape itself. He and she were 15, the assailants were 17.

unless you are Santa Claus, I’d say yes.

seeing as Santa Clara isn’t in Nebraska, they probably need permission from some agency that has a level of juristiction over the University of Nebraska. If campus police, Lincoln police, the county sheriff and the state law enforcement pass the buck (or somehow don’t have any level of jurisdiction on university…

ahh, the ol’ “I’m not being dumb, I was just joking” response.  I might have trusted you if Brexit and Trump hadn’t happened.

No, I think that’s Jehovah’s Witnesses

...because sometimes it’s fun to be insufferable. If only for self-amusement.

in all fairness, you probably should find something better to get excited about than an offering at Taco Bell.

“Oceans” is a good song.  Other than that could take or leave the rest of the recent stuff.  And definitely leave the old stuff.

“And, that even includes being tolerant of those who aren’t. Well, as long as they aren’t aggressive, violent, or oppressive in a place of power.”

And reasonable song-writing. I don’t think Scientology has that.

Unitarian Universalism is a USA (or North American) construct. The Unitarians in e.g. Romania still are fully in the Protestant fold. UUs on the other hand include Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and atheists&agnostics.  Basically, it’s a Sunday social club where you are encouraged to be nice to people outside…

games behind doesn’t matter (much) once you’re in the playoffs.

Is “five-game sweep” what it will feel like to the team on the receiving end?

many of those comments being of the “I feel so old now” variety.

He attributed the inspiration for the center to spending time at a treatment facility himself. “While I was there,” said Tyler “all the girls I met had been abused either physically, mentally, or verbally, or at least 90 percent of them all.”