That’s not correct. I work in the same field and am familiar with her background (unrelated and previously to her relationship with Clooney). She worked for Chambers in several criminal tribunals and while she now works for a private firm that does defence work in international criminal proceedings, they also (as does…

Celebs giving their kids bonkers names is always good for a chuckle but i always breathe a sigh of relief when they have normal names. Ella and Alex are lovely names.

I made this point to my dad and he told me he’s writing me out of the will. Gun nuts really are nuts.

No offence here, but I bloody hope not. We were in the midst of an ongoing investigation when your folks leaked that stuff last time. Sad to say, until you change your government, we need to keep your at an arms length.

That polite fiction also seems to feed on the current mania of ignoring scientific facts when they aren’t the facts we want to see.

The treatment is not curative. It has been tried in an older child with a condition in the same family of diseases (mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes), where it ameliorated his symptoms to a degree. The mutation that child has causes a less severe manifestation of the disease, where the sufferer may survive to…

A closer reading of the article will reveal that you can’t ask the kid its opinion about whether or not it wants to live like this because of two pertinent reasons: 1. Severe and increasing brain damage. 2. The kid is less than a year old. Even without #1 and a non-stop diet of baby einstein tapes you’re not gonna get…

I’ve been following this case here in the UK and actually did a bit of reading about the disease and the “experimental treatment” (I have a medical background). It’s a very sad case, and I can understand the parents being in denial, but as you say there is no possibility of cure. The mutation he has results in death…

Because it’s primal, it opens the door for all kinds of awfulness. People sometimes straight up torture their children because some charlatan plays in that instinct. I think it’s reasonable for society to step in to stop that.

As I have written before, my daughter died when she was five in 2011, two months after being diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumor. There is no cure for her type of tumor - DIPG - and current treatments do little more than extend life for a few months.

I had a 2nd trimester abortion for a wanted child with chromosomal abnormalities and that in itself was hard enough. I cannot imagine being forced to carry a terminal fetus to term, being forced to go through the process of either delivering or having a c-section, being forced to deal with everything your body does…

So, is it official now? After Macron and Merkel’s comments, is it official that the US is a joke to the world now? Because this makes it feel official. You’re not a very good businessman, Donald.

There’s the Eddie Izzard method. React as anyone else would when someone deliberately inflicts pain on them. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! You bastard! I hope you die in a car crash.”

A lot of these shootings have a jealousy or desire to see someone else hurt element. When these people say they “just wanted to end it all” or some such what they mean is “I wanted to hurt others and make them suffer while not facing the consequences”.

Bwahahahaha!!!!!

Wikipedia tells me he’s the third - first openly gay leader of government was Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir of Iceland in 2009 and second was Elio Di Rupo of Belgium in 2011.

And don’t forget “Would you like to donate a dollar to help Dartmouth students learn to read?”

“I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Unless my Tinder date tonight turns out to be a better murderer than my Tinder date last night.”

There was something in the first season where she says something about there being weird sex stuff in the bunker, and in her relationship with that British-sounding rich guy she had some...odd ideas about sex. Then she kept hitting Dong when he tried to make out with her in bed at that abandoned hotel. So...it’s…

It has. She says there was weird sex stuff. But, more to the point, in her first hookup in season 1 pre-Dong she thinks the next step is some pretty disturbing stuff. And with Dong she can’t stop herself from attacking him when they are about to have sex even though she is consciously willing. They finally have sex in…