My town has three types of lawyers: the old guard who has made bank for years when it was much less competitive and genteel, the new guard who are their sons and daughters who stepped into secure jobs, and the rest of us who wish we’d gone into plumbing because it’s not only honest work, but you deal with less shit.

My blue collar and bright mom was so glad there were student loans so I could go to college like she could never afford when she finished high school. If only we actually knew what we were signing me up for...

Yeah, but those who leave are folks who were misled by liberal lies at universities and don’t know the real truth. Being a college grad from a similar social strata, I’ve heard it all.

That’s my plan. I’m finally going to break down and split my twitter so I don’t have to see the political/news. Now if only I could separate out the pro-Trump family who are still gloating about Hillary losing...

As outraged as this should make us, saying “they all aren’t MS13" is treated as a huge concession by his base.

I had an industrial exec tell me the other day that he can’t even fill line worker jobs because the people who are complaining about the immigrants can’t pass a drug test to actually take the job.

In Michigan, felony arrests and convictions can both be asked, but not every state is the same.

So well said. I wasted my best years with a completely messed up perspective on relationships.

You hit on my issue with the “Nice Guy” motif...yeah, it certainly can be creepy and objectifying, but it’s also exactly what my 80s/90s media told us boys were supposed to do.

So well said. I’m now an Old and when I think back on myself and my view of the world in the 90s...just wrong in many, many ways, but even more so when it came to dealing with women.

Oh, I don’t know. It’s pretty slow here and that sounds like a fascinating read, as long as I’m not living it.

I’m often critical of MLS for many things, but I’m exactly the sort of mark they are looking for, because the chance to see Rooney in person would get me to buy a ticket.

From a legal POV, this is intriguing to me. In my jurisdiction, arrests not leading to conviction are sealed records and only conviction history, not arrests, are germane to employment. Even then, employment can’t be unreasonably denied based on conviction, unless there’s a relationship between the crime and the job.

This comment is greatly understarred.

“If I keep you long enough, you’ll get loud and that’s resisting or disorderly.”

I think we need to take The Gate to Women’s Country as a how to manual at this point.

I’m always confused by this dynamic too. I had a college professor, brilliant and accomplished woman, who was horrible to her female students. I was an outsider to it all, but I never got the impression it was pushing them to be “two times as good”—it was just that she didn’t like women students.

I almost made it a chapter in. When I was a nerdy zitbeast of a teen who couldn’t stop reading epic fantasy, he still came up with something to stop me.

I have a urologist appointment tomorrow. This comment section is not helping.

I did the collection side for a while when I was desperate for work, to avoid being a garnishee myself. It sucks. The majority of debtors I spoke with weren’t choosing not to pay. They had no disposable money and my judgment and/or garnishment was just making it harder for them to keep work/housing/car. The creditors,…