Yes. Lying to trick people permanently is only one way to lie, and you can argue that it might be one of the least used.

This is arbitration, not court. If it holds up, and that’s a big if, then he never will see the inside of a courtroom.

It’s actually a surprisingly honest admission by conservatives, when you get right down to it.

I think it is starting to bother her that she’s developed a reputation as one of the most prolific liars of modern times.

You can argue a certain naivety and mental weakness of people who get caught up in these scams, but it’s generally not a diagnoseable mental illness.

As the DC studios try and rejigger their failing EU, might they consider a similar strategy? Just kill them. Kill them all.

Right, and everyone tooootally got that at the time, right? I mean, that’s why it was a top-20 hit in the U.S., and topped the charts in other countries, because of its biting satire. And that’s why it became such a summer anthem for teen girls too, cuz we all know that fifteen year old girls are obsessed with satire.…

As the article notes, the big deal here was Loughry, the Republican. The charges against the rest are meh. The others may have over-spent stupidly on their office renovations, but they got to control their own budget, so that wasn’t per se illegal. And paying senior judges too much in violation of state law is…

The article doesn’t mention it, but I can’t say TLC was wrong to pass on a song like that. It’s not like people appreciate pop songs in the context of their message, as a general rule. Most of the time, you get a general sense of the theme, and the hook, and you’re good to go.

Yeah, but if they passed a law saying Tom Cruise could only make $100k a movie, that doesn’t mean that all the other actors out there who are not Tom Cruise will also get $100k. Producers will still tell you “you’re not worth Tom Cruise money.” It’s just that “not worth Tom Cruise money” is now a totally different pay…

Woman actor......actress? Is it a word count thing or are we not supposed to use words like comedian and comedienne anymore?

Fan . . . has been accused of “yin-yang contracting,” a way for actors to shield their real pay and disclose a fake, smaller number to tax authorities. . . . As a result, Fan is rumored to be banned by the Chinese government from acting for the next three years.

I’m sure she always believed that . . . as a fallback position.  The truth is a great refuge when ambition proves fleeting.

No they’re not. The vast majority of his followers are good old fashioned Bible thumping, Amazing Grace Christians who wouldn’t, according to them, have nothing to do with dat Nazi life.

So...isn’t the secret service’s job to vet people who get near the President?

This isn’t about changing minds, it’s about affecting turnout.

It wasn’t the resume. I mean, nobody who met with her was ignorant about who she was or where she was coming from. They wanted to hire a White House veteran like her, met with her, and waived off. But it was something about her, personally, that turned these firms off.

I think there are lots of people out there who might want to hire someone associated with Trump. Plenty of former Trumpers have found some amount of after-WH success in consulting or lobbying. Even Spicer got a book deal and a Harvard fellowship.

Rian Johnson did it the best way you could.

If Clinton resigned, nothing would have changed. We still would have gotten George W., maybe with a slightly larger victory margin as the voter-enthusiasm gap would have widened in favor of Republicans. But from then on, everything would have played out basically as it did.