it isn’t a case where two people were on either side of her. The other person met her separately.

Having read both seats of pleadings, this is a puzzling case. I can’t imagine any reason for Swift to lie about the incident. She doesn’t know Mueller and hadn’t met him before the concert.
At the same time, having been to meet and greets before you 1) aren’t alone with them and 2) are in close contact for a very…

Regardless of anything else, she needs to hire local counsel instead of relying on Washington DC white shoe lawyers. Their pleadings are a mess and will not ingratiate themselves to the Colorado judge or jury.

but the claim is that there were several witnesses

at least in the library you can put a book in your lap, right?

I think they are generally intended to slip. Runway dresses aren’t made to be worn by actual people (most are never produced and sold).

I totally agree that there are those that find selecting out disease to be sinister. I also agree that it has been happening for a long time. However, what has changed is the scope of our knowledge of genetic testing. Even back in 2000 I was studying the ethical implications of genetic testing and selecting particular…

I think the idea is that if they sound like Americans it breaks the suspension of disbelief. They can’t have Caesar speaking Latin, but if he has a foreign accent then you can tell yourself that he is somehow distant from ones self. I know, not necessarily a satisfying explanation. Maybe they just work more cheaply.

it is a bit of sarcasm because I don’t recall a controversy over the cast of 300 not looking like Spartans. We don’t really know a lot about how anyone in antiquity really looked. The whole climate was different and the Mediterranean was filled with trade and crossing of different people. I can’t get too upset over…

There has always been a difference between avoiding disease and trait selecting.

It is an ethical fine line. On one hand, a single couple says “oh yes, we want a girl” and on the other end you get a eugenics movement that values one over the other. We would be upset if everyone in China under the 1 child policy got IVF to select only boys.

they might have put a kangaroo head if they knew they existed. However, I don’t think any of the animals they saw locally had human torsos. While scottish or danish people did not exist at the time, they did trade with the Greeks, so I guess their gods can look like the cast of 300.

I would have gone to a movie with all Bastets...

don’t forget green for dead Osiris.

I can’t believe they didn’t cast any bird headed people. That’s beyond racist.

“Why wouldn’t gods resemble at least to some degree the people that worshiped and created them.” Have you ever seen representations of the Egyptian gods? They have animal heads!

The HBO series Rome used British actors because the accent helped them seem more foreign. They don’t look Latin.

unfortunately I only get the Met from their satellite live broadcasts...but I do watch Rabbit of Seville on a regular basis

I think it is a good thing and something to be excited about (even though I almost never attend modern opera). I don’t think it is that surprising given the huge disparity in numbers of women composers vs. men. You have about 300 years of Opera history that basically precluded women.