Totally. They're presumably arms of the state government, so they're not going to face charges from their own DA, but couldn't the federal government come in and charge these officials under child pornography laws? (I am totally talking out of my ass, btw, but it sounds plausible).

The fucked up thing is that it's not really even a mistake. If their state has a close-in-age exception (which I assume it does, since he hasn't been charged with stat. rape), then there's nothing wrong with him carrying on a sexual relationship with her. People of all ages sometimes incorporate sexting into their sex…

I think he is an idiot, but to play devil's advocate, people have been requesting "old dude and three (or more) teenagers" marriages for some time. cf. Bountiful, British Columbia / Utah.

I'm sure. I feel like turning a blind eye to prisoner suicide is letting them off easy. Same for the Castro dude that kept those women locked in his basement all those years. He deserved to be locked up somewhere at someone else's mercy.

Oh, I was saying maybe it was too dark. But who knows?

Not really on topic, but in my imaginary world where jails don't have to presume innocence, dudes accused of crimes like this would be tied to chairs 24 / 7 so it would be impossible for them to kill themselves. It's not fair that he tortures all these women and then gets to go out on his terms.

Yeah. I'm somewhat shocked ABC put that on TV. The sound is bad enough, let alone the images.

Maybe it was bad lighting.

Advertise, work with book reviewers, set up book tours, etc.

I think it would be more accurate to say that the publishers try to protect their interests and their authors' interests to the extent that they align with the publishers' own interests.

Yeah. I think the tricky part would be that you I doubt it's legal to force someone to get an abortion, contract or not, and it's probably equally hard to contract away child support. I guess having working junk is a real blessing / headache solver.

That seems very tricky. If the surrogate refuses to abort, and the baby turns out to have a horrible defect, can the bio parents walk away? If only there were a "Law and Order: Surrogates."

I assume you could just give the child up for adoption, the old standby for unwanted babies. Or fuck with both parents by having an abortion. I would be interested to see if a surrogate "renter" could force the "landlord" not to get an abortion.

Interest had not been invented when they issued their debt so they're okay.

Name and rings, I think yes. Concept, I don't see how that's possible. They didn't invent having sporting competitions and giving out medals.

She took into account the difference in ridership.

Speed limits are the law, not a suggestion, and they're routinely flouted. Somehow drivers manage to get through the day without screaming at each other for driving above the speed limit (though they will honk at each other when they are driving AT the speed limit).

The only country that has ever 'colonized' Korea is Japan.

I am also curious about this. Or if someone eats iron fortified cereal, is it going to get sucked out through their gut?

Yeah, it's a bit of a logical leap to assume that the speaker hates Asians because he thinks LV bags made in China are shite.