I figure the reason Lt. Columbo solicits confessions from suspects before they are mirandized is that he's Catholic and doesn't actually care for secular justice
But a better one is that he's not even a cop and is running the biggest blackmail operation in U.S. history.
"I'm afraid Paramount and Warner decided to pass, but the estate of Jorge Luis Borges wondered if you might like to take a crack at a new translation of Misreadings"
We stopped doing these at Boing Boing a few years back. The money was not what it used to be and you're competing with comically formulaic SEO chum ("I'm a toilet expert and these are the best 17 bidet attachments for women in New Jersey") and that was even before AI.
The Stephen Miller comparisons are genuinely insulting to Gríma son of Galmod who carefully positioned Rohan to avoid risky commitment during a serious geopolitical crisis and whose failings were driven by inflexibility and shame rather than opportunism and malice.
Schrodinger's Crew: a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. The crew is simultaneously detained by ICE and furloughed by shutdown until observation collapses the wave.
Sometimes I just want to publish a modern gadget catalog with that DAK/oldschool Sharper Image vibe. Hammacher Schlemmer still does one but it's heavily optimized to "digital dartboards and garden gnomes"
Sir, I’m going to explain every detail of our investigation, detail every piece of evidence, and exhaust every theory a prosecutor might use to convict you. And sir, I'm going to do it right here in this conversation.
