“Can I search your bag?” means, “I don’t have a warrant to search your bag because if I had a warrant I wouldn’t bother asking permission.”

You can lay a lot of things at the door of white men, but “unable to tell the difference between children’s entertainment and adult entertainment” is what you’re going with?

Good point, but where did “drugged out deadman” and “dude who dropped hallucinogens” come from?  I can’t say I’ve ever read that about Tolkien before.

“Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him. Pitt lunged at his own child and Jolie grabbed him from behind to stop him. To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane’s seats injuring Jolie’s back and elbow. The children rushed in and all bravely tried to…

Can the free-spirited burlesque dancer have a heart of gold, please?

I’ve never understood Bertolucci’s explanation that he wanted to capture Maria Schneider’s “authentic surprise and horror” during the rape scene. There’s filming an actor while she’s acting on the one hand and then there’s filming someone’s authentic surprise and horror at being sexually assaulted on the other. He and…

Maria Schneider was the first person I thought of when I read the article.

Very few bands could pull off “Heart of Glass” and “Fade Away and Radiate” on the same record - the fact they wanted to is even cooler.

This deserves way more stars than it got.  That was a classic moment.

Put me down for “Bernadette,” “You Keep Me Hanging On,” and “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone.” Damn, those guys had a great run.

My favorite Lamont Dozier story: After the the Four Tops had a hit with “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” Berry Gordy wanted another Four Tops song released within a day. Dozier took the chords from “I Can’t Help Myself,” reversed them and called it “It’s The Same Old Song.”

“Both Sides Now” kind of gave me a lump in my throat, but there’s no pathos at all in the clip of her singing Gershwin’s “Summertime” - she’s just nailing it.

I’m not defending the waste, but I doubt Ms. Jenner was on the airplane at the time. It sounds like a positioning flight, which is a flight not made in order to get a passenger from point “A” to point “B,” but to get the airplane from A to B for a logistical reason. E.g., the passenger needs to go from Denver to…

Wouldn’t Steely Dan’s eponymous song be called “Steely Dan”?

“Your opinion of my tone doesn’t really affect the fact that we could live in a much better world if people didn’t have such lax standards for their own and other people’s behavior.”  Q.E.D.

I’ll bite. I don’t disagree that simple good manners demand that people should be addressed in the manner they prefer. If someone states their preferred pronouns, only an asshole wouldn’t use them. If someone is trans or non-binary, it would be pointless and annoying to all parties to try to force them into the…

25 or so years ago they could probably have done it through the interstate commerce clause, which is the vehicle every Congress used since civil right to pass nationwide legislation. The conservative majority Supreme Court has pushed back pretty hard against a broad reading of interstate commerce though. Maybe somethin…

Just a guess, but for liability the jury can find the defendant liable by a preponderance of the evidence - which means the evidence had to tip the scales in favor of plaintiff by a tiny smidge more than 50% to get to a verdict. On the other hand, an award of punitive damages requires the finding that the defendant…

Remember those guys who sued the studio because the advertising promised Ana De Armas would be in Yesterday but her scenes were cut? I might have an idea ...

A sleeping juror could be grounds for appeal or new trial - although a lot of judges would want to avoid the issue by going with the “my head was down looking at my notes” excuse if a juror made it and the sleeping wasn’t blatant. The bias question is a tougher call. It’s the lawyer’s job to ferret those out during…