Content warning: This story contains discussion and description of claims of sexual assault.Bill Cosby has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, with jurors in the civil trial ruling in favour of Judy Huth, now aged 64.A majority of jurors found that Cosby had intentionally caused harmful sexual conduct with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under the age of 18, and that his behaviour was motivated by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor, per The Guardian. Huth has been awarded $500,000 in compensation, considerably less than the $8million in punitive damages Huth’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, had sought.Huth filed the lawsuit back in 2014, initially saying the incident took place in 1974 when she was 15, but later saying she had made a mistake about the year and amending her claim.
A Morning Jolt: Our Monthly Media Bill Is Up 13.6 Percent.
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Bright and early Saturday morning, I got up and paid the cable bill. Then I started thinking, which is never a good thing.
We sure pay a lot for media around here.
At this point, there are only two of us in the house. We haven’t added services or purchased much in the way of pay-per-view films (and zero when it comes to movie tickets).
But our monthly bill for media, communications and entertainment is up 13.6 percent from last year, from $831 in May of 2021—including amortization of some quarterly, semi-annual, and annual payments—to $944 this year. That’s a current tab of about $11,328 a year, not counting some stray magazine purchases, up from $9,972 the year before.
To me, that was a bit of a shock. No movies. No subscription news blasts. Certainly no Broadway shows. But the embedded cost our modest media life is up sharply from a year ago, thanks in part to the expiration of a ‘welcome aboard’ deal from Spectrum. And it is surely headed higher as Verizon implements some already identified price increases and the Los Angeles Times makes its yearly attempt to up our bill by about half (every year, I negotiate down by calling to cancel).
Granted, everything else is rising. On Friday, we should get May’s inflation statistics from the government; the April year-over-year number was 8.3%. With gas in Los Angeles bumping $8 a gallon and a 2 lb. rack of lamb selling for $102 at Gelson’s, it’s hard to anticipate good news on that front.
Some costs, of course, you just decide to eat (but not that lamb, thank you). Our home insurance is up 33 percent year-over-year; but so is the cost of construction and everything else that goes into property repair and replacement. Auto insurance jumped by 12 percent. Painful, but Owen Wilson’s
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