You’d think an 80 year old attorney would know better than to obstruct law enforcement, but I guess he thought snagging whatever evidence was in that backpack was worth the risk.

F-22 pilot stammering out “Fox 3” between sobs as he takes down an Iranian F-14

If the worst happens and we end up attacking Iran I hope they don’t leave their F-14s on the ground The Tomcats should go out with their boots on. In the air. One last blaze of glory. Not in some ground strike.

“Work” is just a place they go where they make sure people *don’t* say some things and *do* say other things (Oh, and where any heterosexual relationships are very, very strongly discouraged, but anything else is free game. Also just like modern media.)

Modern media is made by HR people HR people rarely know *what* their employer actually *does*, let alone *how* it does it They cannot conceive of a coherent narrative—conflict, struggle, ambiguity, perseverance—because they do not inhabit one

“Oh, I get, ‘won’t someone please think of the children!,’ right?” Yes That’s actually what I care about Go be weird somewhere else

“We have to implement age verification to stop men like this from talking to your kids” is easily the strongest argument for age verification

As a parent your # 1 priority in public spaces is that everyone else Just Be Normal The key problem facing families in large cities is that we made it illegal to require people to Just Be Normal

Voters always say, on any issue, "I want the upsides with no downsides." They'll vote for Eat Whatever You Want party, then when they get fat they'll say "this isn't what I voted for." So they elect the Get Skinny party, and when put on a diet say, "this isn't what I voted for."

People love to mock Dave Ramsey, but there are two very, very different types of people out there when it comes to financial advice: people who have a safety net and people who don’t If you have assets to fall back on for, say, 6-12 months of unemployment, you can take risks. Maybe Dave isn’t your guy. If you don’t—and you’re in debt—you’ll generally be better off following Dave Ramsey’s advice (although I agree that he is off the mark on homes and paying down extremely low interest debt generally)

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“There are HUNDREDS of abuse cases against the Mormon Church right now!” Yeah, and the vast majority of them are cases like these Low quality, little to no evidence Just plaintiff’s attorneys out for a quick settlement and a little cash

If you read the actual story, however, it gets quite… odd Her father had five children through surrogates and egg donors While he was single and over 40 What was going on here

Exactly The Type Of Guy responsible for the collapse of northern white mainline Protestants says:

We’re going to keep seeing these because a huge portion of the California economy depends on bottom-feeding lawyers And the laws there are designed for exactly this outcome

Also, many of these organizations lacked resources or the willingness to use them to fight the claims The LDS Church, however, has far deeper pockets—and does not intend to allow itself to become an easy mark and face even more claims

The simple truth is that *most* of the huge class actions against the BSA and other churches are in large part made up of cases much like these The key difference has been a corporate structure that made certifying a class easier, allowing the Jenga tower to go forward

Unfortunately for the bottom-feeding Plaintiffs attorneys, you actually can’t really make a bunch of cases with zero common parties, facts, locations, or even time periods a class So the Plaintiffs seem to have settled pretty quickly, and probably not for much, but for far less than attorneys’ fees would be The case was closed with prejudice in August

(Ok, I’ve never actually seen the Big Short outside of YouTube clips, I’m a busy guy, so sue me. Actually, please don’t. I just don’t feel like it.)