The article I linked said that it’s fairly common practice to allow young artists to renegotiate a long contract if the first couple of albums do well, but Kesha was not allowed to. I don’t know enough about the industry to know how accurate that is.

Eight albums, according to this:

Or... regardless of how Hillary fans, Lena Dunham, Madeleine Albright, and Gloria Steinem think she should vote.

The police in my district actually don’t seem too bad. My neighborhood is full of gang members and the police make their presence known by just being around and visible. I’ve seen a lot of police/sketchy person interactions just by walking around and haven’t seen anything that makes me think the police are abusing…

Sorry, I didn’t want you to think I was ignoring you, but I had to do some Googling. I’m not actually really familiar with him!

I think it is, but I don’t trust them. I’ve read enough about alleged violations, potential violations, etc.

I’d be furious.

Mine used to do that, but changed it, fortunately.

Exactly. I use my health insurance to actually go to the doctor and get this stuff done.

And people at my data/marketing company thought I was being paranoid for refusing to participate in “free, optional” company-sponsored health screenings.

It means if you insure it as a Ford Fiesta, that when it gets stolen, or rear-ended by a chick busy texting, or whatever, you get paid for a Ford Fiesta.

Yep.

I think I’d want a declared value policy on this, but you know, to each their own.

Kale interferes with your thyroid. They shouldn’t eat kale, either.

I moved from the South Loop to a bit farther south about a year ago so comparing the two neighborhoods is sort of pointless, but this Jan.-Feb. around my house is definitely much worse than it was in 2015.

It’s semi-normal in Chicago, because the corruption is so bad that their names are in the newspaper all the time. I’ve lived in other states and don’t recall it being nearly as big of a deal.

Glutamate’s giving you much better responses. I’ll defer.

With the added bonus of human sacrifice.

Any opportunity to put out the “fuck diamonds” concept is an important one.

Fuck diamonds anyway tbh.