One of Ross’s fatalities has to call in all the other Friends for a savage group beatdown of the defeated opponent.

Ooh, I like that. Especially since I’m very slowly rewatching those movies right now and am reminded how good they were and what a great character he was.

That’s an entirely different argument regardless, and I agree that there’s always a significant chance that they let them walk, unjustly, and causing things to (rightfully) explode further. It’s still in no way whatsoever an ex post facto law like you’re trying to say. Period!

That’s utterly different in every possible way. If the city/state/whatever now enacted a law creating a specific criminal penalty for putting a knee onto another person’s neck and tried to make that law retroactive, you’d be right, but that is not at all involved here.  

Especially a rodent.

I had not put 2 and 2 together until just now how this shot reminds me of that meme with the little girl grinning at the camera against the backdrop of a raging housefire.

“You can not retro actively create laws then charge people after the fact”

that’s very true!  And utterly irrelevant to the legal concepts being discussed here!  Why did you post it! 

I hope we don’t forget by then, but I guess we’ll have to see (and be ready to explode again if there is an acquittal). From what I can find, though, MN seems to be a state where the jury can consider the lesser charge if they don’t reach the higher one, so if they didn’t feel intent was proven they could still find…

If he’d had his knee on him for thirty seconds, maybe.  Even though I’m very often jaded and pessimistic about juries in this sort of thing, I think the staggering amount of time that he had that knee on George Floyd’s neck makes a big difference there.  

For that, read Stephen King’s excellent prequel story, “Trucks.”

They said that thinking they were the passengers rather than the hijackers in the first place.

“That we got this far before the country faced major crisis”

Setting aside for the moment that he is, in and of himself, a major crisis for the country. 

This also explains why stand-up specials pretty much all tend to be about that length these days.

re: Monsters University - not better than MI, but goddamn if it didn’t have a fantastic credits song.

That was such a weird movie - honestly, probably the least-memorable movie I’ve ever seen, because I cannot remember a single thing about it and only even know I saw it (streaming) because I tried to remember the fact that I saw it.

A new parent instantly figures out that changing diaper is not even in the top twenty things most difficult about babies. If it ever happens, you’ll be just fine.

(#1 is the sleep disruption, if you’re curious)

I was very pleased when “Remember Me” won the Best Song Oscar, because it was the rare example that was not only a great song but a pivotal plot point in the movie itself.  Very satisfying.

I think if that were the case they’d be making less ridiculous and easily-disproven arguments, though.

Seriously - it’s ridiculous to point to the age group that supported Sanders “overwhelmingly” in the primary when he lost that primary “handily.”

That was true long before the age of streaming, though.