The NY AG just needs one Trump Org. fraud charge to stick. Then other states and the feds pick up the scent and start pulling threads from that knock-off Coogi sweater, and the whole fundraising apparatus quickly unravels.  When Trump can’t raise money for the GOP anymore, they’ll ghost him overnight.

The louder and prouder Mr. Cannon is about his role in making these babies, the more I have to presume there’s a certain amount of hush-money and some sort of contractual arrangement with the mothers. Otherwise he’s laying down plenty of foundational evidence for some future child support cases.

Didn’t he somehow manage to catch COVID19 last spring, when most of the U.S. cases were still clustered in a handful of cities?  Unless he’s been vaccinated since, I’d say he’s overdue for a run-in with Delta, or one of the other fun variants his anti-vax anti-mask acolytes have helped spawn and spread.

...with the twink model who looks like he hasn’t had a sandwich since his mom cut the crusts off, let alone one with bacon in it.

This is another aspect (of many) that bugged me about this case. Whenever a cop is on the stand in any other case they’re experts, they have perfect recall, photographic memories, all sorts of special experience we mere mortals could never fathom, and are always calm cool and collected under pressure...yet when Amber…

The TX Attorney General is up for re-election and has been endorsed by Trump. There will be a push to pardon her or commute her sentence, and if Abbott decides not to get involved, she’ll still get ”white glove treatment” in prison.  She’ll be in front of the parole board before Botham Jean’s family even gets their…

Now I need to know if Texas has one of those laws preventing criminals from profiting off their story, ala the civil case against OJ by Ron Goodman’s family.

Never hear about any consequences for these false police reports...

A million stars right here.

Pai’s (i.e. Trump’s) FCC was super quiet about it, but the FCC Speed Test App for iOS and Android (by FCCAPPS) does collect and aggregate network quality data on a crowd-sourced basis. It’s free, lightweight, so far unobtrusive, and is a little slicker-looking now than when it first rolled out.

And when they do find a “breakthrough” they immediately off-shore its production to cheap sweatshops in the developing world, and price the final product to the absolute max of what insurers will pay so they can profiteer as much as possible before the patent expires...and then often make an additional windfall on the…

The mass vaccination effort should be a huge rally-cry for universal health care. Doctors and nurses and pharmacists are still getting paid, medical suppliers and pharma companies are still making money, and yet miraculously, people are getting their jab at record speeds.

Unfortunately, there’s a profit motive behind healthcare for the imprisoned...prison doctors and nurses all fall under the bottom line of the private contractor managing the corrections facilities....hospitals/clinics and insurers all bid for the privilege of upcharging for inmate care. Even the lowest bidder still…

Except we know innovation is being funded by government grants and academia, and then patents and talent are snapped up for pennies on the dollar by the private sector. When you examine how much of the bottom line goes to political contributions, lobbying, consumer marketing and then executive pay/bonuses, most…

Except it won’t be a “federal agent” at all. It’ll be some poor temp or intern (possibly a trainee nurse or med student) the county health department hired to fulfill a pandemic grant.

The height of irony collides with Murphy’s Law (and maybe some karmic retribution tossed in) if we were to finally get our environmental house in order only to be snuffed out by a rogue comet or asteroid.

Treacherous. Even a smallish branch can easily accumulate a couple pounds’ worth of fruit by late summer, just waiting for a good gust of wind to drop the whole payload. They’re bigger than a golf ball, dense, and oily/smelly, so as a kid they made awesome projectiles, but running around or mowing the yard after a…

I had no idea Clear was that expensive. I’ve rolled past their kiosks a few times and there was no attendant vs. pre-check always has at least one lane open. Also at MDW and LGA I’ve seen people scan into Clear, get escorted by an attendant past the boarding pass/ID check, and dumped into the line right at the…

If keeping Scholastic “in the family” was actually so important to all parties involved, you’d think they would’ve had this all ironed out and legally documented some time ago. He was 84 for pete’s sake - pandemic or not, his days of running the family business were numbered.

In an ice cream maker.