Honestly, I’m not sure it is ageist. I’m uncomfortable with Bernie and Joe running for president for the same reason. It’s a stressful, demanding, 24/7 job on which millions of people rely. The stakes are smaller, admittedly, for a county sheriff, but the concept applies. We’ve taken peaceful transitions of power for…

87! Why won’t these fuckers die already???

Sooooo, there’s a lot of disagreement on that. Silents are sometimes referred to as Lost, but also sometimes as Greatest. I think most people understand the “Greatest Generation” to be the Boomers’ parents/the folks who fought in WWII, but nobody really knows what to call their parents. I think it makes more sense…

lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Christ almighty, I’m so sick of the “millenials killed” this or that industry way of describing totally normal market forces that have existed from the beginning of time. So judgmental and blamey! The hostility is so dumb. I mean, if we’re being fair:

Things are better now, now that *we’re* the parents of the kids in those dance classes, but the enlightenment is far from universal. I had to nope the fuck out of a friend’s FB conversation in which she was calling herself out for her reflexive prohibition on letting her son wear his sister’s hand-me-down Elsa costume…

A friend of mine from college was on Star Search as a kid. I don’t remember if it was specifically dance or gymnastics, but it was very spangled and glittery and along those leaping, joyful lines. (I’m pretty sure he did both dance and gymnastics classes.) He won second place. Then some middle school bullies found out…

Every goddamn time I see RBG in the headlines, I have a few seconds of panic before I have a chance to read far enough to see that she’s not dead. Fucking hell.

oh, yeah, i hear ya.

Yeah, I agree. The repressed gay homophobe military shithead dad next door that winds up shooting Kevin Spacey in a fit of gay panic was intended to be a big shocker and envelope-pushing social commentary in 1999. I think it kind of was? I think it also sticks in people’s heads because the cinematography and the…

probably just that they could pay the models a lot less for their time than the actors.

When Scalia died, I got a text from a friend that said, “Ding dong the witch is dead!!” In response, I wrote a thoughtful, circumspect piece about how even assholes deserve human dignity and I wasn’t going to dance on the man’s grave.

Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Ginsburg can be counted on to be reasonable human beings who make decisions based on the law.

Ah, yes. Law school was a long time ago. :)

The SCOTUS was pretty right-wing back then, too, and the vote was initially 5-4 against Brown. Chief Justice Warren kept the case back for deliberation another year, however, because he could see the long-lasting legacy this decision would have and he didn’t want to be the 20th Century’s Roger Taney (Chief Justice who…

“The gun-control community is finally being marginally honest about their true wishlist. The simple fact remains their proposals and ideas are out of the mainstream, and most people will understand their real intent goes beyond what they publicly state.”

Wouldn’t it be filed along with the will? I only work in state court, so I don’t have PACER access, but maybe there? (Not sure how US Virgin Islands court documents are handled.)

I think your intuition is on the right track, Seals. This, from my estate planning attorney friend:

This take makes a lot of sense to me.