Hospitals are required, by law, to treat any emergency room patient, regardless of ability to pay. Hospitals have to recoup those costs somehow, so they more or less tally up the total of unpaid procedures every quarter, divide it by the total number of procedures they do on average, and jack the prices of those…

The “perfect outcome” isn’t the right term for it. It’s a virtually unavoidable consequence of statistics.

If you’re an artist, copyright your shit.

I’m going to trust Mueller on this one. Whatever comes from his people has corroboration and support.

Basically if its by Napoleon Dynamite or one of the guys from Revenge of the Nerds, it’s not rape

At some point I began reading Watt’s lines in the voice of Tim Meadows’ Ladies’ Man character from SNL. Try it:

Honest question: is there anyone, anywhere, that doesn’t believe Trump regularly dropped N-bombs throughout his life (and much, much worse)?

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.

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.