In economics, a monopsony (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) “single” + ὀψωνία (opsōnía) “purchase”) is a market structure in which only one buyer interacts with many would-be sellers of a particular product.

+1 parking ticket.

I am also a DC resident, and honestly? I can’t get that worked up about it. If you retrocede the District to Maryland, it’s not like those people will be more meaningfully represented than they are now.

Term limits for Congress are not a good idea, unless your objective is to arrogate even more day-to-day power to the administrative state.

Well, the OP doesn’t provide enough information to make that call one way or another. If the roommate is a student or congressional employee it could be above-board.

Okay, moving to vote sounds stupid when it is way easier to just keep a license and get your shit sent to your parents address

If only 2-8% of rape accusations are demonstrably false, it does not logically follow that 92-98% of rape accusations are true.

Jones isn’t on a rookie contract, and Fleury will be gone by the time Murray’s next deal kicks in. Smart teams manage their pipelines so they don’t get stuck devoting $9M+ to goaltending.

when you have a player like Larkin you want to spend as little time rebuilding as possible

That beautiful Swedish bastard ain’t getting any younger. Things are going to get ugly as hell in Manhattan if and when he hits the wall.

Yes. Most elite teams are paying their backup $1M or less—and both of their goaltenders less than $8M combined—because average goaltending is available from the minors or off the FA scrapheap every year. Unless you’re talking about a goaltender who can consistently provide .920+ goaltending—and there are only maybe 5…

Milbury might be a shitbag, but he’s not wrong that the Red Wings’ goaltending situation is a cap-fucking mess.

Why would we? He had ~40 good games to start his career, and has been a boy among men ever since.

What? $10M is waaay too much for a team to spend on goaltending—the only teams in that neighborhood are NYR, DET, and DAL. Last year’s Cup finalists both spend less than $7M total, while Washington and Montreal are both below $8M.

I don’t know about California, but statements made in the course of judicial proceedings are generally privileged against defamation liability, so suing for defamation in response to the original lawsuit would probably be a nonstarter. So the only grounds for a defamation suit would be the private statements she made…

Jury verdicts are extremely difficult to disturb on the basis of bias or something similar. While the optics are horrible, they could easily just say “we were just so overjoyed to have had the opportunity to clear this poor man’s name” and be free and clear of any argument the decision was tainted.

For what, exactly? Abuse of Process/Malicious Prosecution are the only causes of action I can even conceive of, but the fact that Doe (presumably—I’m not terribly well versed in the procedural history here) survived a motion to dismiss suggests such an action would be doomed to failure.

As a lawyer that understands how civil trials work . . .

I’m not saying Havlat would have provided the same production for all 3 Cup runs to date. He would have provided similar production for a year or two (which he managed to do despite being in Minnesota) before being jettisoned in favor of a different splashy acquisition or cap space to retain guys like Buff, Ladd, or…

If Hossa stays in Pittsburgh, he never signs with Chicago, who keeps Marty Havlat for shorter money, which gives them more flexibility to retain pieces after the 2010 Cup run.