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  • Uh oh. I’m worried about this getting properly investigated.

    I don’t know much about British policing, but I do know from watching Endeavour that the centralization of operations in the newly created Thames Valley Constabulary in the late ‘60s did not produce investigative efficiencies.

  • How will anyone know?

  • It’s fun to see what memory got wrong!

    Def sounds like “bug off” to me, but I live in a world of mondegreen.

  • FWIW, McCarthy is well known in DC circles to not be an intelligent person.

  • It’s been almost four decades, and I only saw it once, but I have a vague memory of a line in Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise, where the girl yells at Turturro and the other guy, “He’s Screaming Jay Hawkins, and he’s a wild man, so shut up, you boys!”

  • I’m somewhat surprised that no one has given you this answer yet, but it is the most effective one I know, from raising tens of dogs: Your dog needs more exercise; take her for a run or walk when she starts being stubborn. A well exercised dog is a compliant dog that learns and obeys.

  • Can failure to testify can be held against the defendant?

  • For the rest of us, you are making the point that, because it’s civil, pleading the 5th can be held against the defendant?

  • On a purely anecdotal level from shopping at both, the Folsom St. Target in SF and the Harlem Target are both wack locations/spaces that Target shoehorned smaller operations into.

  • Adam Schiff just dumped out his wallet to try to find the receipt for those drapes.

  • Look up the Twinkie Defense, when you have a moment.

  • Oh, I feel pretty confident that any lawyer would say there is less than zero chance of that forming the basis of an IAC claim.

  • My instinct is that you’re right, but I wonder if what we’re really saying is that earth’s population is too large under the currently dominant socioeconomic and lifestyle constructs.

  • IANAL, but Ineffective Assistance of Counsel is well known to be extremely difficult to pull off, and even more so in civil cases. And, as I understand it, Trump’s sole basis for asserting it would be that the paperwork to receive a jury trial wasn’t filed properly, which resulted in a bench trial. Given that the judge otherwise provided acceptable due process to Mr. Trump, and the case appears to have been decided on clearly established facts and relevant law, I find it hard to believe that an appeal would work here.

    Flipping to a different angle: Lawyers constantly fuck up paperwork; if the system allowed paperwork goofs to trigger new trials, it would bog courts down and provide an attack vector for attorneys to take advantage of.

  • This publisher can fuck right off.