This is like getting upset about someone dressing up as a murderer for Halloween.

Conflicted. It’s like a fight between Hitler and Satan.

This is a dumb post. There’s no doubt that women have been underrepresented over the course of the prize’s history, but the old-fashioned attitudes that caused that underrepresentation aren’t news to anyone. In recent years, women have frequently won the prize—including women who frankly had no business even being…

Getting tackled by a girl is nothing to be ashamed of. Now getting tackled by a kicker...

Well not entirely but I just gained a slight bit of respect for him anyhow.

Yeah I don’t think that last line is enough. The headline – and essentially the whole post – is pretty much stirring shit like, “smile pretty, honey.”

This was never official and was written by a poet trying to raise funds for the construction of the statue. it was not written by the founding fathers or any other major american historical figure.

And people wonder why Britain and the United States don’t want these refugees.

Some right winger was arguing on twitter that Lauer is a serious journalist (he dropped out of college his freshman year, got a mostly honorary BA in Communications from Ohio U when he was 39, has always just done hosting jobs like Today) while Maddow is an unqualified hack (Rhodes Scholar, DPhil from Oxford in…

Seriously, I’m no fan of Cosby, but every time a move is made in this case, it seems like Jez jumps on “OH MY GOD CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY HAD THE NERVE” when it is standard legal maneuvering. Now, to be fair, I did post before I remembered that this was a criminal trial, and I don’t know shit about crim pro, but it does…

Sexual assault has not been taken seriously for far too long. I just wish feminists could sit down with Sonia Sotomayor or, even better, a female public defender, who could explain to them how criminal law works, how childhood memories fail to work, and about the many, many ways that a press trial of the accused can…

Thanks for the info. This didn’t really sound like news to me but I don’t know how this stuff works.

Thanks - that is very helpful. Yes, I meant that I was confused by the tone of the article, which seemed to imply there was something untoward about the request when it seemed completely uncontroversial to me.

I’m not sure what you mean. Presumably the two necessary parties here would be (1) the prosecutor and (2) Constand (and her lawyer).

You stole my comment.

Nevermind, disregard, I forgot this was a criminal case.

The prosecutor

Maybe every once in a while call a lawyer before writing about the law?

I think Bill Cosby is almost certainly guilty of everything these women claim, but this is not even remotely suspicious or underhanded. It would be borderline malpractice for his lawyer not to attend.

Isn’t that standard procedure?