B.S. He’s not claiming that it is a contributing factor. He’s dismissing out of hand all statistics regarding the dangers of pregnancy as caused by obesity. He starts with a b.s. caveat: deaths from ectopic pregnancies simply “don’t count”. Fascinating. He literally excludes the leading cause of maternal mortality…

“Despite retribution—and discouragement from other church officials—Doe #1 filed a police report against Masterson for rape. Not long after, Swartz, the ethics officer who had been contacted by the LAPD, called her.”

... Why would the LAPD contact some Scientologist “ethics officer” about a rape case where that “ethics…

The entire purpose of this “investigation” is political, but not as political retribution. It is to try to find some way to massage the facts to claim that the hospital somehow failed to follow their anti-abortion law (i.e. to try to paint the law as less draconian than it really is and attribute all fault to the…

No, it was even worse. It wasn’t even the bike this kid was on. He was saying some friends of this kid had stolen some other bike a couple days before, so he was just going to choke this one for a while.

I’m guessing it’s because baseball is boring. Entirely too much time spent standing there watching players scratch themselves and look around. And most of the sport dominating black athletes are playing other sports (in addition to the urban vs. rural/suburban issue raised by another commenter, which makes it less…

My read is that he decided to implicitly insult her, so she brought the receipts. Like Herschel Walker’s son’s willingness to remain silent about all the facts until Herschel Walker basically called his mother a liar. Oops.

This is another Jussie Smollet situation, but this time it’s a US Senator with the imaginary story.  No one is telling anyone in Hialeah, FL that Republicans aren’t welcome there.  It’s a red district.  Trump won every single sub-district within Hialeah - often by over 60/70 percent.  Anyone who wanted to say that in…

I suspect $9M would qualify.

The sad part is innocent errors in the opposite direction are never forgiven by the IRS. Mind you, it’s understandable to consider a $9M underpayment highly suspect, and there are plenty of multi-millionaires and billionaires who specifically and intentionally dance along and over the line of illegality to save…

That was exactly my thought looking at those two petri dishes.

Then that’s not the use of a likeness. That’s more like trying to claim a copyright on the image on his back. And, as far as I know, tattoo artists don’t get copyrights on their tattoos and (if they did) wouldn’t release all rights to the image to the customer.  Sounds like the suit is based on a likeness theory,…

My bigger problem is that he looks like the crypt keeper.

Wow... no wonder a poorly performed labiaplasty can cause nerve damage. A lot more stuff directly connected than I realized.

I want to know how many *non-tester* black folks there were with whom he previously made comments like that... because I’d not be surprised that the reason the DOJ made the investigation was that they got complaints. If that’s what happened, I don’t like this at all. The actual *non-tester* black folks who were…

I’d bet money the church is paying his legal defense team (or else his legal defense team are members of the church), and they treat defending the church as their primary responsibility rather than defending Masterson.

I don’t think that’s how it works with copyrighted images. Each one is its own copyrighted work. Your analogy would be more on point if you were talking about that Mexican newspaper deciding to buy all 62 books in the Goosebumps series, and then published the entirety of two or three of the books on their website…

I’m fairly certain that was an illegal search. If they were stopped for a minor traffic violation, that does not provide probable cause for entering the bus and searching it or pulling out all the luggage and inspecting it or ordering all the kids out to be sniffed. Even if the drug sniffing dogs were already present…

If someone could send you a gif that shows a spider that seems to suddenly jump toward your hand holding the phone, causing you to flinch or even drop your phone, you are not emotionally immune to scary movies... and I could share a link to hundreds of people cursing the person who sent them a link to that post.  And…

No man, the key is to watch it now a third time to laugh at your two younger selves!  This time will be different... in the dark... by yourself...

“I defer to the doctors on this”
These anti-abortion laws do not defer to the doctors on any of this. If they did, they would have used terms recognized in the medical profession for the exceptions. They didn’t. They used a term that is meaningless within the medical profession and could be translated to anything from…