No, that is unavoidable. Collateral damage isn’t just about missing your target and hitting a bystander. It’s also a recognition of the fact that when there is a breach of the peace, police and others will react to interfere.

Thoros is the “doctor/high priest on staff” who was present for their duel.

I think better might be to point out that in our media ecology, most other negative reactions are indistinguishable from outrage because of the swiftness and loudness and ubiquity of a given criticism.

I’m pretty sure a mole of molehills is more like making a planet out of a molehill than a mountain.

Even the far-right is getting in on the act[...]

Simply false. Much of great art is, by no stretch, beautiful. Arthur Danto famously said that Matisse’s Blue Nude is one of the ugliest representational pieces in existence, but it’s still Matisse and it’s still big in the canon.

I’m just waiting for the inevitable guerrilla statue of a bullfighter waving a torero in between the bull and the girl. That’d be the shit.

If you like, the main discussion upon the term of art “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” has long (i.e. at least since the Marshall Court) been understood to be broader than criminal activity, much like “advice and consent”, and “due process” and a few other items do not and never have meant what the literal translation…

Impeachment is a legislative power, criminal indictment is a judicial power. Impeachment need not be underwritten by an alleged violation of a law (see the link I posted in the post to which you responded). An indictment must be. A trial following indictment has outcomes that are described by criminal statute in the…

Technically, no. Impeachment is not necessarily about criminal charges at all, and many of the historical examples do not involve crimes. The confusion stems around the ambiguity of the term of art as it is presented in the Constitution “...for Treason, Bribery, and other High Crimes and Misdemeanors”; this has…

The locus for decision-making in a major corporation for all but the most important decisions is generally going to be a department head somewhere in the midst of the corporate hierarchy.