The verdict has already been appealed by the defense, but with the stuff he has admitted to he will serve time. Maybe less after the appeal, but also maybe more :-)

Say hello to the ekranoplan!

Well, if they take the bribe there is no arrest and you will never hear about it. So: probably yes.

According to some evolutionary scientists, the art of throwing rocks is the reason our brains needed to get so large. Here is one source:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/696721

SOLVED – nice!

Thanks – I have done som reading and listening – pretty cool music, to bad he was killed …

There is also “hock”, but that is mostly used in relation to horses.

Wag the Dog is my personal political favourite – still holds up well after all these years. It came out in 1997, just at the same time the Clinton/Lewinski scandal surfaced.

Correct punctuation for dramatic pause is … ellipsis.