Leverage. Not only did AB demand a trade out of Pittsburh, which alone hurt the team’s leverage in any trade negotiations, he also made it abundantly clear that he a) wouldn’t report anywhere without a new contract, and b) wouldn’t sign said contract with just anyone (eg the nixed trade to Buffalo) further hurting…

The point of this graft, literally the entire business model, was that it’s way less expensive than the old school bribery-by-way-of-donation. High School is one thing, for a university you’re not getting guaranteed acceptance for your kid with a 1-time donation beneath the mid-7 figure mark. Loughlin paid $500k for…

Given that her parents allegedly spent $500k to get her into USC, i.e. roughly 10x the annual tuition, it’s pretty fucking fair to wonder how many of those 2 million YouTube subscribers are actual people and not just bots and purchased followers...

Being designated as a recruit is not the same thing as receiving a scholarship and thus does not require actual participation in the sport at the collegiate level. Plenty of college athletes, including those in revenue-generating programs at large schools (i.e. big time football and basketball programs) but…

Shorter lines at TSA? Vacation hot spots less crowded and largely free of #MAGA chuds? Sounds glorious!

*Disclaimer: only valid if your parents are already rich, if your parents are poor then you’re SOL

1. We already have Tony Stark

I mean, Nora is the one who’s been doing a metric shit ton of time travel and associated shenanigans, so “Dammit, Nora” does seem more appropriate for this season

to be fair, Bautista is a much better actor than Mike Tyson

Remove one of the p’s though and it’s an accurate (if grammatically incorrect) descriptor

Anything is possible though that seems unlikely. There is an argument to be made that the sound quality of vinyl records is better than that of any format that came after, that same argument cannot be made about the video / sound quality of VHS...

I agree that it’s kind of nuts, but who else would it be if not the FBI? Copyright is a federal, not state, law, and it’s almost always an interstate affair as the notion that a movie would be produced, illegally copied, and the illegal copy distributed all in the same state is exceedingly farfetched.

to be fair the onus apparently isn’t on twitter comedians to sue million dollar companies, rather the onus is on said twitter comedians to treat outright harassment from million dollar companies as “good-faith negotiating” though it’s not as if that’s any better

While there is enough anecdotal evidence to back that up, we don’t actually have statistics to know that for certain precisely because NRA-backed politicians have made it damn near impossible to compile or study any comprehensive statistics about gun violence

It’s all about giving him enough rope to hang himself. He’ll break the gag order and find himself remanded into federal custody, and at no point during his subsequent trial and sentencing will he have any credible grounds to claim that his being jailed prior to and during his trial was unfair or improper.

The only Costco item that’s truly on my “DO NOT BUY” list is the 24-pack case of glass-bottle, made-with-actual-sugar Mexican Coke. And it’s not because it’ll go bad or it’s not a good price, it’s just because I’m too weak to resist the temptation to drink at least one a day when I otherwise have soda maybe once a…

I feel like a lot of the meta cure / desire for a “normal” life stuff from Cisco has been foreshadowing his exit from the team, hopefully that’s his sendoff and not something tragic (i.e. his death)

RedBox cannot just bulk buy a bunch of Disney DVD’s and then rent them out without express consent by way of a distribution contract with Disney. That’s not how copyright law works

Based on this season’s crossover, it seemed pretty clear that Gotham / Batwoman exists on Earth-1. Barry and Ollie didn’t go to Earth-38, they brought Supergirl to Earth-1 to help them solve their body-switching crisis. And Kate Kane knew who Oliver Queen was (well, I mean, she thought that Barry was Oliver, but so…

If any homeless people freeze to death in Chicago it sure as shit won’t be because we’re trying to help immigrants and asylum seekers, it’ll be because there are currently something like 2,500 unoccupied apartments in the city