“a 72 percent white student body, 20 percent Asian, 9 percent black and 9 percent Latino”

I don’t disagree, but what have you seen that makes you think Rousey can use any other strategy? I can’t remember her doing anything other than go right at somebody and duking it out. She’d need to pull off a Rocky III and totally change her style.

Problem is she doesn’t seem to know how to grapple someone who can pop and move. Rousey is a bull, no lateral speed at all. It looks to me like she trained a LOT at grappling other grapplers, and trained a LOT at punching, and has huge holes on defense and movement.

I guess you think people using homeopathy totally get that it’s full of crap? No. No, most people just assume that the inexpensive, unregulated thing is just as safe as the expensive, regulated thing, at least for them. People are terrible, terrible economic decision makers. They are NOT evaluating risks and…

Well, yeah. People DO get killed everywhere. So why not just sleep on the freeway? Or perhaps in the bear exhibit at the zoo? Or go for broke and set up a tent on a firing range?

Not that I support the officer, but I’d have to stop being mad at my kid for not obeying the officer before I started getting mad at the officer for throwing around. I teach MY kids to control the things the can control. Not sure why it’s so hard to comprehend that (1) the officer is clearly wrong for using too much…

White kids are also killed for holding toy guns. But not as often.

A better-coached team (Hey there, Cheatriots!) wouldn’t have “assumed” that everything was set for their jankey-ass play. All blame here goes to the Ravens, not the refs.

Yes! It is!

Well, if you add “from the sale of securities” to “to profit,” it is.

You are both right AND wrong! This isn’t “literally” insider trading because no one is trading securities, just being bad. And although many things ARE literally insider trading, these aren’t but only because they aren’t buying the securities so nothing technically related to securities was released. This puts it in…

Again, untrue. There are many different types of business organizations. They only ones that can’t be “put in jail” are corporations. Any partnership, LLC, sole prop, whateve? Jail it is. And for any business there’s a ton of remedies other than a fine. Ernst and Young would much rather pay a fine than lose its…

Punitive, not punative.

I’d be shocked if there wasn’t. I can’t remember the last civil rights claim that asked for less than $1 Million for victim, and they rarely pay out more than a few hundred thousand. Considering this is not a strong case for punitive damages of any amount, and compensatory damages aren’t literally enough to buy the…

I like to think it already has! The media buzz makes it really unlikely something like this will happen again.

That could make it very hard to prove. If this is the only time anyone’s ever been ejected from the wine train there’s no pattern of discrimination; there’s one event.

Lots of things could show it, but you need more than just black people were the only people ejected. Were there lots of white people who COULD have been ejected but weren’t? Were there lots of black people who COULD have been ejected but weren’t? That’s basically what they need to look at.

Short answer is no. The basic rule is that no fee can exceed the costs of the service absent voter approval (which never happens, no one will ever raise the price on anything). And you also need voter approval for some people to pay less than cost when others pay the full cost.

Is 1/100 a drop? Because if so, this IS a drop in the huge, 1.3 billion gallon bucket of water agriculture uses.

It’s more likely just a big, round number to start settlement negotiations at a higher amount. If you ask for $11 Million it makes a $100,000 settlement look downright reasonable.