Day: June 1, 2022

From Reuters: U.S. jury awards Depp $15 million, Heard $2 million in defamation fight 33064113863_fcc3b59b62_gavel

From Reuters: U.S. jury awards Depp $15 million, Heard $2 million in defamation fight

Jaybird June 1, 2022

Jurors awarded Depp $15 million in damages from Heard. The panel awarded Heard $2 million in damages.

The Ideology of Musicianship and the Cultivating Of The American Mind

TK Turbo June 1, 2022

Now that we, Hominus Americanus, are anesthetized to art in musical form and musicianship as expression, I...

Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025The NYT has an opinion piece today: Why Does It Matter Whether Covid Came Out of a Lab? So, if you w…
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025It's an interesting angle I hadn't considered but I do recall, in DS9, various characters complainin…
Dark Matter in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025That’s not a reason to think they didn’t exist in the fictional universe. In the episode "The Best o…
North in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Good. The Dems should throw everything they can at this stuff.
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Eh, I think the absence of vehicles and ships is explained mostly by economics- not the economics of…
Andrew Donaldson in reply to Jaybird on Don’t Smash Send: Three Pleas for a Better Media WorldThere is a law for that, and you know it...
Dark Matter in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Life expectancy is going down because of Covid and drug overdoses. https://www.health.harvard.edu/bl…
Saul Degraw in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025The bill is apparently bogged down in the House Rules committee with 500 Democratic Amendments
Dark Matter in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025...the show doesn’t go out of its way to show privately owned transportation vehicles... To the poin…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025https://newrepublic.com/article/195300/democratic-tea-party-bernie-aoc-failed-succeed To see the dif…