One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

-Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1792

Or, put in modern terms: There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

drove a balrog out of its natural habitat

Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

https://web.archive.org/web/20140721052709/http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/01/14/mit-hacking-case-lawyer-says-aaron-swartz-was-offered-plea-deal-six-months-behind-bars/hQt8sQI64tnV6FAd7CLcTJ/story.html

Dax knows the deep, dark secret kept by the Trill Symbiosis Commission. They'd be wise to leave her alone.

Those are gross oversimplifications that don't accurately describe either state or their populations.

So apparently this woman works for a competing (fringe right wing) book publisher. In which case Scholastic might have grounds to sue.

If he's too crazy to be guilty, then he's too dangerous to be freed.

I am so sick an tired of the GOP manufacturing this crisis every fucking year.

There's already a mechanism for the House of Representatives to hold cabinet secretaries to account.

She'd have to read the US Constitution to know what I'm referring to, of course.

People who use "I didn't know who it belonged to" to justify stealing things.

$200 million for past and future mental anguish and $1 billion in punitive damages

NB: Texas caps punitive damages to $750k.