This secret safety team costs MUCH less money then the business Airbnb were to loose if they did their due diligence and actually looked into who’s hosting properties on their site.

Not exactly. Federer isn’t injured (a valid reason for withdrawing). He is withdrawing because he fears he might become injured and not be able to compete at Wimbledon in a couple of weeks which is not considered kosher and royally pisses off the officials of the tournaments usually. The fact that he is fawning over…

They took a tough and punitive stance against a woman seeking to protect her mental health and are taking a nice and conciliatory approach towards a man seeking to protect his physical health.

“I think we did very, very well,” he said. “The goal was not to penalize her. It was to say clearly: Here’s the rule.”

but a report by the policing inspectorate not only cleared police of wrongdoing but praised them for their restraint.

You know that joke about the drunk who loses his keys in a dark alley, but looks for it under the streetlamp because ‘the light is better here’? That’s Johnson and the other lads pretending they want to stop sexual violence. They don’t want to look at their own complicity and acceptance, they don’t want to change…

It also sucks as an excuse because even if the alcohol "made him do it" (it did not), his victims are no less abused because of it. 

Even if we allow for the idea that one’s personality while drunk or high is not reflective of who they are deep down, the principle still applies. If you do shitty things while under the influence, then you have no business being under the influence. Recreational drugs are not required for a full and high-quality life.

Here’s what addiction specialists say in response to Mel Gibson’s use of addiction to excuse his assholery:

I hate this excuse so much. There are thousands of people out there with substance abuse issues that don’t physically assault people. There are thousands of people with past trauma that don’t assault people. Now, are those thousands of people 100% peachy keen all the time? Probably not. But if it was just the drugs or…

They’re already dropping the lawsuit.

They have dropped the suit.

I mean, I think their own shitty perspectives were what opened them up to “harassment and wide-spread hate”. Improving the lives of people working in the construction industry is a great thing, but making life worse for women spending time in public isn’t the way to do it.

My partner is a lawyer and works for one of the biggest commercial landlords in the Greater Toronto Area. They are amazed that these bozos, 1) think they have even a chance at winning the suit because Fritz’s post was a comment on publicly made/available comments, and 2) don’t have the sense to see that no developer…

Nobody read the ending of The Grapes of Wrath!

It’s nice to see that Jill Dillard appears to have escaped the cult and is leading a more normal life, judging by her Instagram. Married seven years and only two kids, and her husband just graduated from law school. Good for them.

The frenzy over the Royal Wedding and what the dress would look like is difficult to describe in modern terms. I was the same age as Diana, and remember walking along a high street in Toronto just before six pm on the big day, and came across a shop with television in the window. The coach was arriving, and me and a…

That’s an early 80s dress. Fashion is circular; what’s in now will be out later and what was in before will come back. We’re due for an 80s resurgence - not the ridiculous neon stuff and ponytail out of the side of the head or the enormous hair, but the real things people wore - simple cuts, pleated pants with narrow…

It’s not about the enforcement of the rules. It’s about how they’re all portrayed in the media.

Federal sentences are much, much shorter than state sentences. Jen Shah may serve 3 years or 3 months, but nothing resembling 30 years. I predict her pleading guilty, agreeing to pay significant restitution, and then failing to make restitution, which the feds may or may not care about, since they already got the…