I think we can assume safely that the 8-month old twins who burned to death in their mother’s arms were victims.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mexican-drug-cartels-vs-a-mormon-sect-behind-the-horrific-massacre-of-lebaron-american-moms-and-children?ref=scroll

Some years ago a Canadian film named Mon Oncle Antoine won the Foreign Language award. It was filmed in Quebec but was entirely in French.

You seem to think the burger they gave him lessens the sting of the lethal injection.

They’re more of an employee than an Uber driver.

I am Spartacus!

The museum at Petrified Forest National Monument has a display of apologetic letters from people who picked up a bit of fossilized wood, but returned it later. The most contrite are from little kids, written on lined notebook paper, their fuming mother obviously supervising.

Janis Ian?

You are quite right. But what remedy? Make the city registrar check back with the owners directly before finalizing the transfer? Any other ideas?

Where is the asbestos coming from? Does it naturally occur in talcum mines or some such?

Superintendent Johnson had a kidney transplant a few years ago. Not a man who should be drinking,

Remember some years ago when all three broadcast networks ran docudramas about the Long Island Lolita ....... in the same week? Now that’s unnecessary!

At least she didn’t ask to hug him.

I find it interesting that everyone here is busy dissecting private equity and nobody turns a hair over Bernie’s plan to set up an American version of Pravda.

The people really pissed over this award are supporters of the teenage Swedish environmental activist. Newsweek is claiming the Norwegian parliament gave the prize to Ethiopia because Norway is a major hydrocarbon exporter.

Well, as I remember from the discussions of that jury charge, the lesser charge wasn’t the judge’s idea but the actual point of law. Had she not mentioned it, it would have been an easy appeal for the defense. Bringing it up was necessary, unpleasant as it was.

How did the judge show favor to Guyger during the trial?

These people never seem to have an endgame planned. Ponzi , Bernie Madoff, the Equity Funding gang and others never had a way out. I do have half a notion that Holmes thought that if they could hold off the reckoning long enough they could have gotten the system to actually work, though it was probably wishful…

The Soviet’s also had a penchant for using hypergolic engines, where two fuel compounds from separate tanks combine and instantly react, without need of an ignition system. They are simpler to build, but one drop of the wrong stuff in the wrong place can be catastrophic. Considering Soviet quality control, they are…

I heard a report Musk is offering to buy out all the residents of Boca Chica town at 3X market value. After a recent test firing set off a brush fire, he may get them all out.