If they appeal, they have to put up money which accrues a very comfortable 10% interest during the appeal - with no guarantee that an appellate court will say anything other than ‘nah, we’re good, thanks’. And the chances of anything about this lawsuit going to the US Supreme Court are pretty much zero.

It’s a ‘cult classic’ because of the opening theme and the memes about it. Other than that, it’s mediocre. Haven’t seen the new one and have no opinion, but the idea of defending the original Space Jam as some kind of gem of cinema is weird.

His master plan to get military training seems not to have gone so well, as he washed out of basic training.

I didn’t say the book was garbage. I said that the reason for this story, and the headline, is that he’s selling a book. Peer-reviewed studies don’t sell the way pop books on diet and exercise do.

This is about a guy selling a book.

He’s talking about what he’s going to do because there’s a huge amount of attention over her conservatorship, after her father and her former attorney quietly used her for a cash cow for years and the judge providing “oversight” apparently thought that was all just fine.

It won’t be the last, either.

While that is true, many of the instructors go out of their way to directly and explicitly attack the THIN=GOOD message. 

I mean this sincerely and from a place of love: you need an excellent therapist a lot more than you need a six-pack of abs or another fitness guru. Doing the same thing over and over and then being mad when the latest idol doesn’t magic it out is not going to fix what’s hurting.

This isn’t about “protected classes”. Women aren’t a protected class; sex/gender is.

It’s kind of you to respond in good faith, but this dude’s repeated “gosh, I just don’t understand, could you spell it out for me” comments make it pretty clear he’s just JAQing off.

Came here to say this - Criminal does such a good job of treating victims with dignity, and they frequently address issues of racial injustice and police brutality. 

Right? What a weird thing to say. You get his creepy ass arrested for statutory rape. That’s actually the whole reason we have statutory rape law in the first place.

Her example is to point out that you can have a living situation go bad without warning, and you need to have a fallback in case it does.

American society has conflicting and weird feelings about nonmonogamy of all configurations. Cheating is bad, but people trapped in a dead marriage awakened by exciting new lovers are sympathetic, see various Great White Male Authors and The Bridges of Madison County and “The Affair”. Cheaters are terrible, but if…

“Experimenting with nonethical nonmonogamy” is taking a whole lot of air time to say “fucked around”.

Yes, people lie about doing dumb, often illegal shit because 1) they have poor impulse control and 2) they don’t really think they are going to suffer any consequences.

You believe him because you think the alternative is: he carefully considered the pros and cons, realized that he would be claiming to have engaged in sexual acts with a minor that put in him criminal jeopardy, and exercised the good judgment not to say those things? User name checks out.

He probably is, but he managed to screw himself both ways on this. If she sues him for defamation - claiming that he lied about her and damaged her reputation - his defense is that what he said is true. Which appears to put him in danger of confessing to raping a minor. Whoops!

Who’s going to pay for those lawyers?