Well, he divorced her. So he's doing much better.

I actually had a similar life meltdown and ended up in law school (which then turned to me in a doctoral track in public policy) after my college boyfriend dumped me!

The divorcing the man from the lesser college is the part of the story that made the rest click for me. This is a woman who had been told her whole life that she just needed to get married and have kids, but who discarded that old fashioned advice and went to Princeton on her own. (This is an important thing to…

Also, the quality of the labor and delivery services in hospitals vary GREATLY depending on where you are in the country and what you can afford. My city has two hospitals that you can deliver at with special L&D centers that feature pools, gardens for walking during labor, jacuzzi, and all the other things that…

There are midwives that are similar to the ones available in Europe. They are CNM, Certified Nurse Midwives. They tend to work with OB/GYN practices or in hospitals. Because they are licensed and carry insurance they often can not to homebirths for liability reasons.

Infant mortality is the wrong measure since they include the first year of life. You want to look at intrapartum and early neonatal death rates to get a true comparison of home v hospital birth.

This is the type of wedding I'd have. Because I do want a larger type of ceremony but I also know that my rather demanding family would spend the year prior to the ceremony telling me that I should pick a different dress, cake, reception venue, etc. than the one I've chosen. It is what they do. This way they can…

Are you joking?

Find out what she was allergic to through traditional allergy testing methods in a hospital setting so that she could avoid that allergen in the future. Some vaccines have egg products in them, and avoiding all vaccines forever doesn't mean that you won't ever encounter an egg (thus causing another seizure).

I will actually say that I think the system does help cause people to become addicts. The way we romanticize alcohol and other drugs (the casual way people suggest that you go score some Adderall of you need to study for an exam or a Xanax is you feel nervous) makes it difficult for someone who is born with a genetic…

I suspect the complication comes from the fact that this is a federal court and not all crimes have the necessary federal component. The state can still charge him with assault on Lee, but in order to be charged in Federal court there needs to be a federal crime, and in order for congress to make something a federal…

The only thing to really know is that it isn't that easy to create a federal criminal law since the US Constitution set up a system where "police powers" (crime, health, safety) were left up to the states while the Federal legislature focuses on taxation, spending, and interstate commerce. So, while it seems nuts that…

In order for something to become a Federal law there has to be some type interstate commerce aspect. For example, there's a federal law against a felon in possession of a handgun that has been in interstate commerce. Since every handgun has been in interstate commerce this is not a huge deal. But straight up child…

Actually, US tax law says that it is the marital state at the end of the calendar year that determine if you are able to file married or single. Living apart might mean that you can get some other tax credits if you've been separated, but you'd still have to file as married (or married filing individually) if you were…

The structure can be good for dealing with a number of issues. In a lot of ways rehab can be like boot camp in that you have someone else making all of the daily decisions for you (when you wake up, when you go to bed, when you eat, what choices you have in meals). When you are under that type of regular schedule it…

I'll be honest. When I saw Wolf of Wall Street I was sort of annoyed by it because I felt it the movie didn't do enough to show the downfall of these characters. How dare this film make it look so much fun to be bad.

Why is it more simple if everyone has the same last name? I suppose if it is a situation where nobody ever got divorced this might be the case (although not really since even in that situation you only share a last name with one set of your grandparents, so the simplicity falls apart after a single generation or when…

Wolf of Wall Street is probably the flat out funniest movie of the year. There is a physical comedy sequence involving Leo trying to get to his car while high that is amazing. And yet, you don't want to be these people. He doesn't even seem like he's having fun, but treating money like another drug.

I really recommend his podcasts. The guy does about a dozen different podcasts in (Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, Fatman on Batman, and Hollywood Babble-On are just a few) and they are all pretty amusing. I like Babble-On, which is a weekly rundown of movie news and gossip, but Kevin Smith is a great storyteller. Take…

One of my cats will meow angrily when I change the Kitty Litter. It's like watching a little furry man on Hoarders yelling about how you stole all his treasure away.