This is idiotic. I’m not explaining the last election or its main themes to you. Perhaps your snide obfuscation works on people who aren’t familiar with the area or its politics (is this the other 70% of what it takes to be a good trial lawyer?) but it doesn’t work on me. You’re clearly defending Castor’s honor in…

I used to live in Montgomery County myself, and the MILF-hunting lawyer seems less interested in correcting the record than in blindly defending Castor, who just got his ass handed to him in a November election (which itself is a pretty big part of the answer to “why charges now?”). MILFman is probably drinking…

Same here. It instantly reminded of the good old days with Lindy.

You are fucking killing it on here.

O’Malley said it back over the summer, got booed, and apologized. Jim Webb, on the other hand, said it in a fucking debate in October because he knew it would go over well with right-leaning Democrats, and never took it back. Webb’s not in the race anymore, though, so...

This comparison will never ever get old.

Your argument simply makes no sense. The Crown Estate isn’t owned or operated by the monarchy, and hasn’t been for over 250 years. They get a percentage of its revenue to fund their lifestyles (a far more generous deal than if the monarchy had been forcibly dissolved in an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century…

I mean, once you’ve decided to get rid of your royal figureheads, the various little compensatory agreements you’ve signed over the years are not really a major concern. There’s no way they would be allowed to continue to own the real estate they control now. Whether you regard returning control of the land to the…

Since that equation relies on tourism to sites that would still exist in a republic, why not just ax the family and give their stipend to English Heritage? Seems like a less roundabout way of doing things.

That argument is very controversial in the UK and it’s not at all clear that the royal family itself generates much tourism outside of the occasional jubilee or wedding. It essentially relies on counting all heritage tourism (the vast majority of which would occur anyways) as monarchy-specific tourism.

Reagan-era Kotaku really let us down there.

No, you’ve actually inverted it. Everyone knew that Sesame Street was publicly funded; it was one of the show’s defining characteristics and created much of its goodwill. In reality, though, less than 10 percent of the show’s funding comes from PBS (according the Times article about the move to HBO.)

I totally understand your sense of how it reads; were it you or I responding to false allegations against us (not saying at all that hers are false), we would want to be much more forceful. In this case, though, it reads as being looked over by lawyers. To some, clearly, it sounds like a hedge, but lawyertalk is…

In answer to your question, the general PR logic here is not to reuse the substance of the accusation in the denial of it. It draws attention to what the claim actually is, in essence free publicity for it. “I did not rape Stoya” is quotable in the same way “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” is; an…

I did not rape Stoya.

Miele canister vacuum. Before, now, and forever.

The older ones are tanks; they last forever. I would trust anything they've made in the last twenty years, though. They've really cheaped out on the parts.

I moved to Philly a long time ago from New York, but I still miss the Fairway by my apartment (although, with their failing ownership structure, who’s to say how long Fairway-as-is will last now?) The best advice I can give is to forget about one-stop shopping convenience. If you need specialty ingredients, a…

It's not the analysts, it's the article itself that makes no sense. Urban bought a small, highly regarded collection of restaurants in Philadelphia, where they are based. If the analysts are unhappy, it's because Urban is plowing money into a vanity purchase local to their HQ. This has very little to do with the…

The bigger problem in terms of establishing a rightful owner is that, under the framework of current plunder-related international law, the UK is almost certainly the rightful owner. Clear-cut cases of theft (the Holocaust, for example) are much easier, but there’s almost no mechanisms for reversing the export of…