That’s a really good question. I’d bet the damages are based on the cost to the retailer, not the sales price (which would include both the cost to the retailer and additional profit). But I have no idea.

I feel like the 148 pairs of stolen leggings may have been priced at $17,000, but there is no way that 148 pairs of leggings is $17,000-worth of leggings.

At first, my response to this was to note that your understanding of the concept of “advocacy” is, at best, imperfect. But upon further reflection, I realized that the lack of understanding is my own, for I was clearly overlooking the obvious explanation for your posts: that you fully support my position and are…

Unless you are just agreeing with me using an extremely aggressive tone, I think you probably meant to respond to Captain Midnight, the person whose ridiculous statement equating Weinstein and Harmon I was mocking with an even more ridiculous statement regarding celiac disease and the execution of wheat farmers.  

And you think a guy sexually assaulting real live human beings is the same as a guy pretending to sexually assault a toy! One of us has a great deal of trouble with comparisons! 

Can’t have it both ways: either celiac disease is a myth and everyone who claims to have it is deliberately lying to defraud their insurers or all wheat farmers must be loaded into a rocket and fired into the sun. Those two choices completely occupy the field of possibility; there is no third way.

Blood libel! It’s not just for reactionary evangelicals any more!

That first picture of Fisher looking up/to Robinson reminded me of what it was like when people who were older than you were also bigger than you.  Weird.

Dreaded socialism!

Christina Aguilera is definitely the only one who is an absolutely virtuosic singer, but she's not the only one who can sing. Mandy Moore was the voice of Rapunzel in Tangled and the singing in that was really lovely. Plus it featured the best wicked mother song ever. 

I read this as “trade him for 15 centers,” and was immediately delighted by that roster. Lebron pounding the air out of the ball at the top of the key with a rotating cast of four centers always standing all pressed together immediately under the basket. 

It never ceases to amaze me how strong dancers are.  (I was originally going to comment that she’s in amazing shape, but then I did some googling and saw she’s only 36, and decided that being fit at 36 probably isn’t that remarkable.  For other people, at least.)

Oh, YOU know which one. 

I suspect it’s a reference to the Y front, but I choose to believe that you described all the stuff that accompanies breaking up with someone as “flappage.” Because that’s great.

Doesn’t everyone clean their ears with their dirty underwear? (Dirty as in going into the laundry, not dirty as in soiled.)

I’m pretty sure my friend’s dog came up with it first. She’s always been super avant-garde.

Providing examples of other species engaging in a behavior as support for the conclusion that the same behavior by a human is not gross is not a strong argument. By that logic, my friend’s dog has just green lit the following behaviors as not gross: eating one’s own poop, eating one’s own vomit, eating another…

Your link is for Massachusetts legal aid website concerning the rights of people in Massachusetts.  This woman was in New Jersey, which, if my math is correct, is a different state.  You are bad at either reading or googling.

On the other hand, Jeff Novitzky did all those things while he worked for the FDA. His incentives may have changed now that he is investigating UFC fighters on behalf of the UFC. For example, we’ve seen plenty of universities hire former federal prosecutors with sterling reputations from their careers in government…

The Golden Snitch is an awesome nickname for a drug tester.