there has to be some sort of special circumstance to override the protections of the 6th amendment. threats of embarrassment, public hostility, or employment termination are not sufficient reasons. retaliation can be a reason, but what constitutes retaliation is legally defined and is pretty narrow for 6th amendment…

she helped a client murder at least one other lawyer and then got herself shot, so that was kind of nice for her i guess

i’m fairly sure he just mailed in the section where he describes how handsome the main character is and how it makes much younger ladies lust after him and let someone else fill in the details with a madlibs book, a globe and fragments of discarded ‘in search of’ scripts.

and i say that with love, i read a lot of his…

also, the professors argument is weird, because the idea of someone hitting me with a gallon jug of water- glitter or not- sounds like it would hurt a lot. that’s like being struck with an 8lb weight. i think if someone hit you with an 8lb icicle, you’re still not having a good time of it

i looked it up and you are correct, he flinches when it hits him in the shoulder and he slips on some ice and falls to his death

given how few of his own books he actually wrote, he probably doesn’t even care

It’s good to see he's embracing his limitations. There’s nothing wrong with writing a science-heavy Clive custler story

There had better be some praise of chex quest next week

It didnt work out this time, but can you blame an investor for putting money into a plan to sell fake luxury to the idle nouveau riche? 

Kathleen kennedy knew the rule going in- helping Forrest hide one body gets you one day on set. No more, no less.

I think you meant ‘an assist from wilford brimley'

You didn’t get sad when Forrest Whittakers memorable character ‘what if we gave Forrest Whittaker an 8 ball, shoved him in a refrigerator box from a paintball range and then filmed him in a dirty alleyway for 5 minutes' died?

Kills the flow- you can see them start to get flustered (like assuming they phrased the question wrong) before he confirms/denies.

Early clancy (when he was basically just Andrew weir for cold war military tech) tend to be (to my mind) better than when he turned into Clive Custler for people who are afraid of foreigners and dont like water

She didn’t accuse him of raping her. She accused him of raping a 3rd party. An accusation that was false, hence the ruling against her. Also why she’s now trying to claim she had to show actual malice by claiming he is a public figure, which is obviously also not passing the sniff test of the courts. Nor should it-…

I guess we found Gawker’s old legal council.

The irony of a member of the Gawker universe still not understanding what constitutes a public figure is very on brand for them

This seems like another example of the ‘what about this story is compelling past a feature length film’ issue that peak tv keeps coming up with. Having an actual existing movie to compare it to (and a good one at that) probably doesn't help

Rodgers was good enough I’m half waiting for him to announce his retirement from football right after the draft so he can do something he clearly enjoys while also sticking a knife in a team that has chronically failed to utilize his talent

The cynical part of me thinks that his department threw him under the bus to cover up the wider issues. When a cop basically has an ‘oops I killed a guy’ speech with specific checkbox phrases of justification memorized to give to a supervisor before the ambulance has even pulled away, you arent dealing with a rogue or…