There are a few classic examples of big-name actors taking pay cuts or even working for scale, i.e., the union minimum, in order to help fund a project they really believe in. It’s not really applicable to studio projects where, as noted, the studio just keeps every dime it can.

I bought a car from them late last winter and everything went smoothly in terms of legal requirements (due in part, I think, to Massachusetts laws which require full registration at the time of purchase - no paper plates, so Carvana couldn’t give the car to me until everything was already done). No problems with title…

Traditionally, there exists something called “depraved heart murder,” where a person acts with such depraved indifference to human life that it equates to the malice usually required for murder (which does not necessarily require planning and motive, and “forethought” can be as much as a momentary decision to act). A…

It is incredible to me that there’s so much focus on pure EVs and relatively little on plug-in hybrids. I live in a city and don’t have a charger at home, and even the one around the corner from work is busted right now, but I still regularly get a little charge for my Volt here and there, while at the gym or dining…

I have not once, ever, owned or considered buying an Apple product. Even at work, by sheer coincidence involving software compatibility and the needs of my specific job, I’m the only person in the office assigned a ThinkPad instead of a Macbook. I had a Zune in college and loved it.

It’s excessively unlikely the federal government will outlaw abortion at the national level without a serious shift in the way the United States is structured (which is obviously not out of the question). Healthcare is squarely a state police power, that’s why every single abortion debate involves a state law trying…