Let me be clear: complexity doesn’t apply to the chain of causality. You pretty clearly had a financial industry that obfuscated in the pursuit of fees. Everything that followed was a side-effect of that.

Personally, I never quite know how to try to work an absolute scale of justice without my emotions getting into it. It gets harder because newspapers frequently use punishment exposure —a cumulative total for how much time a person could serve if convicted of all crimes and then sentenced to consecutive sentences—…

Totally not legal, but in outer borough NYC supermarkets it’s very common to have someone working off-the-books at the end of the conveyor belt/register, just for tips. (For anyone reading this: if you’re ever at a supermarket that does that —don’t shop there).

This is why I liked The Big Short. There was probably a temptation to try to come up with the Final Boss of Capitalism, or to make the people who shorted the housing market into good guys, or to try to give us some closure. But it just doesn’t. The whole film really captures the essence of the Great Recession, which…

I’m not sure what to think about anything with this anymore. There are so many participants involved, it will become an absolute shitshow unless there’s full non-coerced and videotaped confessions, the victim’s own testimony, and/or a bunch of physical evidence that shows who did what.

“You think we went a little too hard with the Outer Glow on this layer?”

Just for shits and giggles, this quote needs to be on the front page of a lawsuit by every former USFL player. (Cough cough, I’m looking at you, multiple-concussion-suffering Steve Young.)

For the record, there were a lot of things fucked up about Christopher Hitchens. Torture was never one of them. Too many Brits were tortured during WWII for any Brit to endorse torture.

There’s non-basketball reasons for Prokhorov to avoid the smell of tanking. Right now, he owns 100% of the Barclay’s Center and the Nets, because the original owners (Forest City Ratner) have to concentrate on their core real estate business (which is the redevelopment of the area around the Barclay’s Center).

Conversion to Judaism: You’re doing it wrong.

Dunno about whether this applies to Hungary, but I actually get a weird proto-fascist volkisch vibe from the photos.

It’s probable that as someone involved in the business affairs of the Cosby household —philanthropy, management, etc.— Camille would be deposed to verify any business records prosecution views as shady or at least adding to a circumstantial case.

I don’t think it’s what Bill and Camille talked about that’s even in question. Camille Cosby is involved in the philanthropy of the Cosby estate —and I’m pretty sure she is an officer that’s considered to have a fiduciary duty.

Preface: I stopped watching football after all the stuff about concussions and rape and so on. But really, all this ribbing and that picture right there is why I’ll always have a soft spot for Eli Manning.

I agree that, in a criminal / tortious sort of way, Camille Cosby is certainly guilty of something. With so many women coming forward, she can’t argue that she picked the lesser of two evils, because it’s clear: she picked an evil that involved scores of women being victimized.

Chiming in as someone who has been slowly losing 50+ lbs. over 2 years —2016 should be the year I finally get into that all important “normal” BMI range.

...and it’s all polishing brass on the Titanic when you remember that it’s right in the Cascadia subduction zone.

In the case of Great Britain, the parties still have a sort of clubhouse atmosphere —membership has responsibilities— so the way he gets booted from the mainstream is for Labour to simply revoke his membership. Quite efficient.

I dunno, the idea of ghosts of old New York is actually the first bit of storyline that’s been interesting so far, in that it intersects with real life quite nicely. Every few days, some longstanding institution here in NYC is shutting down or trying to relocate somewhere to make way for condos. It’s depressing. A…

As a secular humanist, raised Catholic: this.