The sics were in the original Lindy was quoting . . . so I'm guessing Lindy also doesn't know why they're there. I have a feeling that, like many aspects of grammar/vocabulary, the proper use of a "sic" is dying knowledge.

Well, you certainly make me feel like a better parent, as I close out the weekend letting a 3 year old binge on Curious George while the newborn and I stare shell-shocked at a wall and count down the hours until preschool opens tomorrow :)

Of course someone can be a rapist without being convicted - that is true of any crime. That wasn't my point. My point was that unless a reporter has a lot of independent evidence corroborating an accusation of a crime, in the absence of a criminal conviction it's sloppy journalism and textbook defamation to state…

You get a rec from me, because as a criminal defense attorney and someone who represents a lot of young men accused of sexual assault (many of whom are innocent, particularly of the outlandish allegations made in the media) it's amazing how cavalier news outlets are about labeling defendants "rapists" or saying they…

If you had traveled back in time and told ten year old ME about this I would have thrown on my hypercolor t-shirt and mood ring and and gotten in line.

Per company. Also companies with fewer than 50 employees still have to comply unless they can show an undue hardship. http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compl…

So blatantly illegal . . . I would have liked to represent you had the answer been "yes" and you had not gotten the job :)

This x. 1000. I am so tired of this "argument" being thrown in as though it means anything. My father and husbands didn't choose their last names any more than I chose mine (they also inherited theirs from their fathers) and no one has ever told them it's not really their name because it was passed on from their…

Um, in a negligence case the negligence of the victim is absolutely relevant. There is a world of difference between saying that a woman wearing a miniskirt is inviting a violent crime and saying that when you are alleging that one person acted negligently and caused injury to another the contributory negligence of…

I was going to say, based on the headline are we talking about the Roman general or the bug-eyed singer? Because if it's the former, if he was good enough for Cleopatra . . . but if it's the latter, then . . . no.

Right there with ya, except hitting 39 weeks this weekend so . . . starting to realize not only is he coming out, but it could be like tonight. If you figure out the fast forwarding (I'd take just 6 months until night feedings stop!) let me know.

Well just because people do it or the parents are okay with it doesn't mean it's not technically illegal, it just means it's highly unlikely to be prosecuted because someone would have to not be okay with it and report it to the police. All states have an age of consent below which no consent is valid (I think often…

As an attorney who represents these students, I fully agree :)

They can, but their code of conduct, the procedures it provides, and the right it grants to accused students is part of their contract with their students. Students come to Duke and basically say "I will pay you X money and you will give me this educational experience which is governed by the rules you have set up." …

All student conduct code violations are generally termed "misconduct," that's what the school prohibits (academic and non-academic misconduct) and that's what they have the authority to pass judgment on. It's not a moral judgment on whether something is or is not assault, it's a quasi-legal term about whether their…

This may be true at your university, but is not remotely true at others in terms of what rights accused students may have. I've had cases at multiple schools where there is no entitlement to see all the evidence submitted to the school, or any sort of hearing where the students can get clarification or pose questions…

Pretty sure their practices interfered with the investigation into the kidnapping of a 13-year-old young (?) girl . . . because if it interfered with the kidnapping itself and they saved the girl they probably would have gotten a pass on the whole illegal hacking thing.

I know one too! It's hipster-trendy now I think.

Or this is precisely why to do it at the 6 week checkup . . . "sorry honey, I would LOVE to spend a precious moment while the newborn is sleeping having you ram into that newly stitched-up area down there after it's finally just healed . . . but gosh darn it the old period just showed up."

Cut my chicken on a dinner plate (the thought of cutting chicken on a wood or plastic cutting board where my knife is simultaneously cutting scratches into the board gives me the willies) then rinse in very hot water and straight into the dishwasher with the knife and plate. I hate to use antibacterial products but…