Wait, is the same media apparatus that got Justine Sacco fired now whining about a frothing internet rage mob unnecessarily and unjustly turning someone’s life upside down?

Maybe he’s more of a performance artist, and lost without his rape-muse.

I’m more inclined to believe it was a weird trick of the light rather than an actual ghost; that said, considering the backyard was the length of a football field and had a tree line against the street (with a second line of hedges covering the back stair), that seems exceedingly unlikely.

Wait a second—I glossed over this first time reading this because someone else had already floated it as a Big Pharma thing, but you suspect the Government is suppressing cancer treatments as a means of population control?

Also, not sure I’ve ever heard of a CIA operative being given DOJ as their cover agency. Usually something more anodyne or just a simple “I work for the Government.” “Which agency?” “one of them.”

This is the Coventry conspiracy theory, that Churchill let the city burn rather than tip his hand about radar.

The straw that broke the camel’s back in WWI was intelligence that the Germans were thinking about attacking us. An actual attack, no matter the outcome, would have sparked support for full mobilization.

Well, keep in mind it wasn’t just the U.S. and USSR—both of the primary actors in the Cold War had numerous allies who tagged along on their space programs.

I have distinct memories of seeing a jet-black silhouette walk past the bathroom window of my house growing up.

Also, the existence of patents in the pharma context means that the first defector from the cartel would still get to enjoy monopoly profits all to itself for a nontrivial period of time. Unlike many other antitrust conspiracies, the game theory on this one doesn’t add up

This is a conspiracy theory that I often suspect stems from a misunderstanding of how most diseases in the developed world work. When we’re talking about something like cancer or an autoimmune disease, we’re talking about fundamental breakdowns in physiological processes that can’t realistically just be swept away…

You don’t have to merely believe that the Soviets were incapable of exposing the truth though; you have to believe they were as hoodwinked as the rest of the world, insofar as the USSR never evinced any belief that the landings even might have been faked.

The fact that the Soviets never asserted it was faked is actually the strongest evidence that it wasn’t.

the best environment in the league to raise a family

Super Bowl-winning teams regularly feature free agents. The core is usually built through the draft, but a team has to be willing to supplement the core to get over the hump.

3. Wash your hands

Wait, has everyone forgotten the glorious inexplicability of hobo Ed Reed? Why are y’all not more excited to Belicheck outdone at his own game of slumming it up on the sideline?

Good. Fuck that guy.

Of course, the first goal was also a sight to behold

Fat lot of good the extra rest gave them last night.