Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Okay, so let's get the sequence of events clear here: Hulk Hogan permissively has sex with a friend's wife, which the husband films. Hulk Hogan Sex Tape is somehow obtained by celebrity gossip site Gawker, and posted on the internet for all to see. Hogan get's mad, files lawsuit in Florida, and tells his story tearfully to a jury. Jury awards Hogan $140 million and this morning, Gawker files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy code. Got all that? Celebrity gossip website...
Presumptive Republican party presidential nominee Donald R. Trump has been made of teflon, but attacking the judge in the Trump University case for his Mexican heritage, may have finally backfired for the candidate. Trump labelling of an American judge as "Mexican" in order to cast doubt on his fairness, has been labeled simple racism by many Republicans - even House Speaker Paul Ryan - and has again increased fears that Trump will destroy down-ballot Republicans in November. Potential donors...
Update: 6/8/16 The National Enquirer, which has broke many stories in the past, reports that Richard Simmons is transitioning to be a woman. In a front page article entitled "Richard Simmons secretly living as a woman named Fiona," the article reports the "shocking news" that the athletic exercise guru, believes he is a woman trapped in a man's body. At home, he puts on women's clothing. Then hangs around in bars. Yes, he's a lumberjack, but he's OK. Like Jenner, Simmons has decided to undergo...
Elon Musk has been called a twenty-first century Leonardo Da Vinci. When he was 21, he and his brother invented a way to send money by e mail. They called it PayPal. He sold the company to Ebay for $100,000,000 when he was 24. He is the genius behind SpaceX, Solar City and Tesla Automotive. He may well be the smartest man alive on Earth today. And women completely baffle him. But that is a story for another day. At the annual Recode Code Conference, he decided to let us in on his thoughts...
A letter read by the victim before sentencing has grabbed the nation's attention and garnered millions of hits. Don't misunderstand me. Rape is a serious, heinous crime that has effects lasting a lifetime. But a reading of the facts stated by the victim indicates to me, as a former criminal defense attorney, that this was a tough case for the prosecution, and she's lucky that the jury convicted Brock Allan Turner at all. So here's my legal analysis: Turner, 18, met the 22 year old victim, when s...
"That was messed up, Butthead." Okay, that's not really what they said, but still one group of Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters were recently caught on camera beating each other up, mistaking each as Donald Trump supporters. In the video, protestors argue and become violent with each other, apparently mistaking each other for Donald Trump supporters. Once they start shouting at each other, the two groups realize they all support Sanders, and begin to chant "Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!" The video was...
A severely ill woman who seemed to have symptoms consistent with Ebola, caused a response from firemen in Hollywood last night. In a scene right out of a Hollywood movie, a battalion of firemen along with helicopters, Los Angeles Police officers and paramedics brought 200 neighbors into the street to gawk. The Los Angeles Fire Department, including 33 firemen and a Hazardous Materials Team, were called about 9:15 p.m. to the 5900 block of Barton Avenue, immediately west of Paramount Pictures and...
Update: Police helicopters spotted two more great white sharks in the waters off Seal Beach on Monday. 2 miles of beach from Seal Beach to Huntington Beach was closed. Second day, second closure due to sharks. Police Lt. Claude Panis noted that the sharks weren't doing anything threatening, but the beach was closed nevertheless in an abundance of caution. An Orange County Sheriff's Department helicopter crew sighted "several large sharks" trolling the waters off Anderson Street in Huntington...
Update: Bernie Sanders is in Santa Monica again tonight, Sunday night, campaigning this time at the Santa Monica Pier. In Culver City, has has been seen at Tanner's Coffee on Sepulveda. The guy is really trying hard, that's for sure! In the last 30 days, the State of California has registered 650,000 new voters, 500,000 Democrats, and 138,000 Republicans. This is a hint that young people are registering, specifically so they can vote for Bernie Sanders. This author predicts he will win the...
Update, Monday morning: The suspect, later identified by as Edgar Salazar, finally surrendered. He was taken into custody around 1:30 a.m. Monday, Buena Park police said. The search then ended. Firemen rushed to the 7700 block of 11th Street and Stanton Avenue just at 5:30 PM Sunday, as the Buena Park Fire Department fought a fire in a detached garage. Officials confirmed that one burn victim, a civilian man, is at UCI Medical Center with third degree burns. They have not confirmed that the...
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump last week criticized the rulings of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a case involving Trump University. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that Curiel's Mexican heritage represents an "inherent conflict of interest," because the candidate has proposed construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Curiel was born in Indiana. Trump says Curiel "has treated me very unfairly, he is a Mexican, and there's something going on."...
What is it with Chinese boys, anyway? A $15,000 Lego sculpture of a "Zootopia" character stood for about an hour Sunday at the Lego Expo in China before a little boy smashed it into it's constituent plastic blocks, CCTV reports. The artist took 3 days to complete the sculpture of character Nick Wilde, a fox from a hard-luck background in Zootopia. It cost a little over $15,000, said Chinese TV, and had just been put on display. Meanwhile, a boy in Beijing went to a museum and put his fist...
A Houston middle school teacher who police say had a long term sexual relationship with a former student, turned herself in to Police Wednesday. The odd thing about the case is, the parents approved of the relationship, knew about it, let the boy stay with Vera overnight. Odd that is, from an American Cultural Perspective. The whole thing has been highly destructive to Vera's life, and it's hard to say why, given that the boy and his parents both consented and approved, and Vera was a willing...
