Effect Not Affect

Listen, I'm sure it's all gonna go back to shit in a couple hours but it was really nice to wake up and feel hopeful.

Hey, serious question that won't get any traction - does anyone know a person who has an active job who has also run for office? I'd love to talk to that person. For reasons.

It is often (not always) a school holiday in Tennessee not because they want people to vote, but because the schools are where the voting takes place.

I was today years old when I found out Dick Cheney was still alive yesterday

Sometimes I wonder if my depression and anxiety are increasing because my meds aren't working, and then I look out the window and realize...oh, no, that's probably not it.

Do you think the X-men should go back to having an “international” team like Excalibur? If so, where should they be located and who would you send over and who would be their Kurt/Kitty equivalent(s)?

I swear to god I'm gonna be hounding the fucking GOP senators and reps in my state to pay me back every goddamn penny I'm spending to feed other people right now. Do I believe I deserve to be paid back for this? Of course not. But my god, I want back the taxes that are going to fuck-all right now.

What you have to realize is that there are three separate mainline Evangelical responses to Halloween - "we don't actually care, get some candy", "this is of the Catholics/Devil, you will absolutely not celebrate it", and "if we slap Jesus on it, maybe we can monetize this."

You know what's cool about the internet? No matter how chronically online you are, there's going to be stuff that you absolutely have no frame of reference for. I still don't know what Dans and Phils are, but good for them.

This is a really boring answer, but I’m pretty sure that you’d take the same general path as you would with real world machines that can kill people without direction - that is, booby traps. It’s a bunch of murder and aggravated assault charges.

That was unrelated to the museum question. I'm not coordinated enough to pull a National Treasure.

Okay, so I realize that this is really weird coming after the last post, but also does anyone have the name of a good attorney (probably criminal defense, maybe just someone with a good civil rights background) in DC for me to keep in my back pocket for reasons?

My qualifications are that I have moderated a lot of small online communities and also would ban Jesse Singal immediately.

Okay, so pretend you have exactly ninety minutes to go through a museum in DC - assuming they'll be open in a few months - where would you go?

Palmer is, as far as I can tell, also seeking to have the case dismissed in Massachusetts on the same grounds. Again, this doesn't stop anything that could be filed in New Zealand.

I love it when my old students come back and prove that I have not wasted the last oh-my-god-too-long of my life. It’s getting concerning how old they’re getting now, though.

I can already see the clickbait headlines and I hope that more people who understand what’s going on will be vocal!

What we do know is that the plaintiff can refile in NZ at her discretion. This doesn't mean that anyone found her claims unsubstantiated or that Gaiman successfully introduced any doubt into the proceedings; it just means that somebody made a really bad choice of fillings.

present here. There are a few good reasons why the suit might have been brought in the US (perhaps the laws favor the plaintiff here?), as well as some not great ones (better potential monetary award in the US, for starters). Regardless, we don't know the why.

Gaiman has/had a residence in Wisconsin, so bringing this suit here isn't as crazy as it sounds, but it was actually a fairly big swing from the jump. You can absolutely bring suit against someone in a third jurisdiction, there just has to be...a lot of things present to get there that don't seem

So, Gaiman's case was dismissed because it was, according to the judge, filed in the wrong forum. He held that it would be rather difficult to justify why a case between a woman from New Zealand and a man from the UK over an claim that happened in NZ should be heard in the US.

Neil Gaiman Assault Lawsuit Comes to an Abrupt End The civil court case against author Neil Gaiman has come to an abrupt end after being dismissed by the judge.

So, at this point you may well have seen an article like this one: movieweb.com/neil-gaiman-..., and I really want to talk about what it actually means from a legal perspective. Just to establish bona fides here, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a guy who went to law school, got out, and learned he hated law

You know, when I was a much younger and more confident man, I wrote a whole damn book. People bought it! I made less than a hundred dollars and it is out of print now, but it was a real thing. I have no idea why I'm now so terrified of the blank pages in front of me.

More like Tony KAHN'T We go ahead and release the Epstein Files?

Y'all, I am getting sent to so many places to show off what a good teacher I am, and I really just want to be really clear about the fact that I am really not a very good teacher.

It's wild to stop and think about how horses started out in North America, went extinct, and then ended up being brought back to North America.

Employees don't get workshops, we're busy.

People out here are posting that being on the spectrum doesn't mean you're broken. I just want to say that being on the spectrum is like the LEAST problematic thing about me.

...need to be done quietly. Whether it's because people have people to protect, because they're protecting their livelihoods, or because the work being done can be harmed by publicity, some people aren't going to advertise the things they are doing to help on the internet.

I think it's really relevant right now, as people turn on one another, to point out that a lot of really work - some of it really good - is being done and not talked about on the internet. There are some people who are really good at boosting and some things that need to be shared. Other things...