Why is Naomi respected? Vox has a nice piece on her lunatic conspiracy theories, like the US Army spreading Ebola in North America or how ISIS beheadings are faked. This current contretemps is pretty minor, in retrospect.

are transit employees fingerprinted?

A fast search through Jez looking for Prince ‘s postmortem legal issues is instructive. The Purple One was admired as a canny businessman regarding his music, but never drew up a will. We were treated to a number of dubious heirs and children coming out of the woodwork.

Sigh... I remember when jounalists got the Who, what, when where and how of a story in the first paragraph.

Speaking of skin color, I’ve been hearing about some Chinese tycoons who bribed their kids into top tier US colleges, at greatly higher amounts. Like $1.6 million vs. Huffman’s $15,000 chickenfeed. When do the Feds start freezing their Stateside assets?

Nobody wants to do mini-series? ABC is wrapping up the 8-episode The Fix this evening, and A Discovery of Witches is doing another 8 on AMC. Fox has done American Horror Story for several years now.

The Count of Ten?

More to the point, how many were convicted?

If Law and Order were still on they would have already had such an episode in the can,

Good thing Swift didn’t include bagpipes in the set, or we’d accuse her of stealing from Enya!

I’m seeing reports that the Hollywood parents were amateurs. Some Chinese parents paid $1.2 million to get their kid into a prestigious US university. Any chance we’ll get any of them in court?

I hear Richard III has a few descendants in Australia. Is it time for a Yorkist revival?

I don’t think they pay much attention to rehabilitation on death row.

I notice this was a Federal case. Could there be state charges to come?

Something I rarely hear discussed is the susceptibilities of those of us who actually had measles back in the 50s. Anybody know?

Perhaps the conservative should have suggested that a smoker had some gall complaining about antivax.

All this about the GFA is very good, but what about the current crises besides Brexit? Who are these guys shooting and throwing petrol bombs? The rebirth of the Provos? As time went on I’ve heard that as the Troubles wound down both elements of the Republicans and the Unionists degenerated into gangsterism. Is that…

On YouTube you can find excerpts from old 60s TV shows like the Brady Bunch that treat measles like sniffles or a bruise. Some of the people posting these are antivaxxers claiming that in the past nobody worried about the illnesses. 

I think a neglected element of this whole affair is the part played by older celebrities like George  Shultz or the other outside directors. None of them were previously known for financial acumen or scientific knowledge, yet they picked up board seats like they were collecting bubblegum cards. Clever of Holmes to…

Speaking of Macy, where is he in all this? I’ve seen Huffman on tv leaving court with her lawyers, but not her husband.