This is almost surely a statement that was negotiated as a part of the settlement. Attorneys drafted it and it has no relationship with how Franco feels about any of this (good or bad). It is meaningless.

I know he’s a grown man and all, but these style of pap photos always remind me that these folks never get a quiet moment when they can just walk their dog in peace, even when they are masked.

Fascinating. I bet this moron set up a dynasty trust and now he can’t get to the money.

I really would love to see the details of a trust set up in the names of people who do not exist. Who pays taxes on that, exactly?

How we square the proliferation of child sex abuse imagery reports with the basic non-existence of stranger abductions is simple: child sex abuse imagery is generally not created by child abductors. It’s created by people who are abusing children known to them, including many children who will never be reported…

Wow, what the fuck.  Her kid is special needs!

Well duh, they found out the last round that people pay down their debts when they get stimulus money, which they want them to do again.  But not, like, too soon because the banks still want people to be IN debt.  Just not bankrupt.

Gas and oil companies produce something that they can keep in barrels until the price goes up again, so it’s in their best interests to continue to produce it if they can, and not cut the labor force. Disney Parks’s profits are directly linked to the attendance at the parks, and if attendance is down, it makes no…

They didn’t renovate to install 10 bedrooms, they probably just did minor renos to the bedrooms and refinished the floors, etc, to make a gym and yoga studio.

As always, when people bring up John Boyega, I think about how he blew me away in Attack the Block.  The industry is fucking dumb if it doesn’t listen to him.

Incels make me sad. There are so many things that incels and pro-ana communities have in common, but mostly self-hatred. No one deserves to loathe themselves as much as these men do, and it seems that the self-loathing comes first, then the blame and hatred of women, then the white supremacy. We have to address the…

Also, why does she think that being a 501(c)(3) means that they are legally protected from criticism?

Yours?  I agree.

That’s a terrible idea.  No one needs to be giving insurance companies more ways to avoid paying for people’s injuries.

I don’t think you understand why this article is being published right now. Depp brought a lawsuit specifically on the basis of allegations about HIM. The lawsuit isn’t about Heard abusing anyone. If Depp’s only defense is “Well, she was also shitty,” he won’t win the lawsuit. Her behavior in this particular instance…

Sitting on money is a good way to garner a derivitive claim from your shareholders.

Are you even listening to yourself?  The drivers you accuse of incompetence make nothing.  The restaurants make nothing.  What in the hell makes you think you deserve better “treatment” when you aren’t willing to pay for it?

This is what happens when you have to find a nominal plaintiff, though. You find one who fits a certain profile because it’s a legal strategy. There is never a promise of payment (and there clearly wasn’t in this case or someone would have pointed that out) to the plaintiff when money isn’t involved.

This kind of evidence might be admissible in court, but she would be able to rebut the evidence with her own evidence of truthfulness (also per FRE 608). Where we are right now is at the point where the defendant hasn’t had a chance to rebut the evidence yet. Everyone wants to draw conclusions mid-trial.  That’s…

I’ve been poor. I get the anger, I do. But come on. You know very well that lots of those shitty car dealers charge an insane and impossible amount of interest and then repo as soon as possible, which is a grift in itself. We have absolutely no information regarding how behind she was on payments, the reason she was…