And the festival’s next target;

“Madsen’s defense is torpedoed “.

I can’t wait for this storyline to be ripped from the headlines by Law and Order: SVU.

If you’ve never had a Kinja account; abandon hope. 

Some machine operator in Stuttgart turning out hundreds of identical metal VIN tags does seem unlikely...

In China all those cars are sharing the same insurance policy.

Police often try to use current suspects to pin old murders on. Scott Peterson was looked at for a couple of disappearances from when he was in college during the investigation of his wife’s vanishing. There was no connection.

You are right. Direct mail is more science than art, and all parties use many of the same methods.

Why is Netflix more feasible than NBC?

The other possibility is a reboot that surpasses the original. Star Trek TNG was more thoughtful than TOS. And of course Battlestar Galactica changed from a fair space opera to an amazingly intense operation that wasn’t afraid of pursuing all the implications of the concept.

So she faced first degree intentional homicide charges. Shouldn’t there be an Attempted in there somewhere, since the victim survived?

The world will still be here. North Korea won’t.

But those seniors invented the technology that amazed their seniors. Kerosene   to electric lights, the Wright Flyer to the Space Station, telegraph to television. They are the giants on whose shoulders we stand as we plan Mars colonies, 3-d printed replacement organs and robot cars.

Watt are you on about?

The Bulb Short?

Remember some years ago when every romance drama needed the hero’s best buddy to die so they could resolve the story? Officer and a Gentleman and Top Gun were only two of a dominant trope of the 70s.

I suppose the shoulderless blouse is the exact opposite of the beefy shoulder pads of the 80s.

Disney is hardly the underdog here; they are fabulously well funded. They could have spun this out for 20 years for far less than this settlement. But they surrendered. Do the beef people have something on Disney?

News wasn’t a business in 1997?

What I find intriguing is that CoS is doing so poorly against all these attacks. Back in the 80s and 90s they fought ferociously against USAToday, BBC, Time magazine, ABC and pounded them flat with lawsuits and other harassments. Yet today the book Getting Clear is a best seller, programs on multiple networks are…