Part of the problem is that “Person of Interest” is really a inflammatory nonsense term that doesn’t really have any legal meaning - “While terms such as suspect, target, and material witness have clear and sometimes formal definitions, person of interest remains undefined by the U.S. Department of Justice.” So the…

And yet: https://www.freetibet.org/news-media/na/free-tibet-launches-boycott-campaign

I know it’s really 90s, but have you heard of “Free Tibet”?

Yes, interesting. I thought “£740,000, is that all?” But of course there are CEOs who get $1 salary as publicity stunts (e.g. Zuckerberg) because they are annually getting tens of millions in equity.

Don’t forget the Roman lettuce.

I’m certainly okay with this, but given how tortured (read “awful”) many famous artists are/were I wonder if it leads to some further reassessment of who gets shown and celebrated, and is there just some length of time when we just don’t care anymore? Wait until people hear about Caravaggio slicing up the faces of…

I forgive someone for not knowing the Caesar salad was actually popularized in Tijuana, and that there is nothing Roman about it. But is poppyseed a hard word? Did she call romaine lettuce “Roman lettuce”? Is this supposed to be clever/funny/entertaining? It just seems like a poorly done imitation of this video, which…

THANK YOU. I happily voted for her (twice) given the choices, but how can people be so hypocritical when it comes to treatment of Bill versus virtually every sexual predator who has been outed recently? I know women aren’t responsible for men’s bad behavior (but then, by that standard neither is Matt Damon for every…

When I lived outside of California I always explained to people that fires are the things you should be scared of back home. Sadly this was quite clear this past year.

I understand that’s your idiosyncratic view, but the question is why draw a legal distinction, other than quality? I’m not saying your necessarily wrong, but it’s going to have to be something that people are able to articulate.

Ha, kind of like fake rhino horn.

Isn’t this just a more sophisticated form of drawing someone doing a sex act? Hasn’t this already existed for a couple decades on the internet? E.g. photoshop, fan “art,” i.e. the non-”deep” fakes. Not saying it’s not shitty, but doesn’t seem to present new legal issues per se.

I mean, an article a week on the unclear genius of someone with one major movie role does seem like a lot to me? I’d feel the same way if there was a weekly article about Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, or Kevin Hart (naming last three SNL hosts, since that, and Keanu, is all I know her from since I’m probably not…

I didn’t mean to judge the whole show, since I’ve not watched it. The early Youtube clips back in the day were pretty funny, but still even then often leaned pretty heavily on “hey, this is a revered person from a long time ago swearing like they’re in 2009.” I liked them then because it was fresh and took advantage…

Interesting background, thanks.

I saw the SNL she hosted, and she seems totally pleasant. But I don’t know why we need daily articles about her comedic genius, which I haven’t really seen.

I’m curious about the actual risks of genetic contamination. Reading the wiki on “Beefalo” and the “Żubroń” (which I guess is the word for hybrids of cattle and actual European buffalo, as opposed to bison) it sounds like it’s quite rare for a female cow to bring a fertile hybrid to term. Like you say, seems more like…

I came here to say two things.

Mixed feelings. It’s frustrating to know that shithead associate who shirks all his work gets paid the same as you just because you graduated law school the same year. I guess that’s what bonuses are for.

I mean, I agree with the congrats, and that women are woefully underrepresented in the Senate, but isn’t stat really more a factor of age than anything else? The average age in the US Senate is 61 years. It doesn’t exactly strike me as first I’ve been waiting for, e.g. like an actual woman president.