My frustration exactly. I'm ready to divest of the two-party theater, declare myself an independent, and do my best to elect conscientious people who want to serve rather than amass power and privilege.

I think it's possible to decry the tactic without blaming the individual defense attorneys for using it. Defense attorneys are obligated to give their clients the best defense possible; since our system and culture allow (and in fact, encourage) calling the victim's testimony into question, I think it's unfair to…

Also, if the victim was a sixth-grader and is now 52, that would have made Hillary around 25/26 at the time - early in her career. It also doesn't sound to me like she's sending that rapist a Christmas card every year, you know? She was just doing her job - someone had to give him his Constitutional rights.

how is putting on a zealous defense and getting her client a plea deal - vile? any defense attorney will tell you that personal morals notwithstanding it is the job of the lawyer to do whatever it takes within the bounds of the law to provide the best defense for the client, including questioning the story of the…

As a lawyer, nothing infuriates me more than people shitting on defense attorneys. Sure, some of them are sleazeballs, but ditto to prosecutors, judges, and basically any other type of lawyer, just the same way as people of other professions can be total sleazeballs. If you want a system of justice that is even more…

Boy, wouldn't it be awful to have a president who believed that everyone deserves legal representation, regardless of the crime they are charged with? Like you know, what is considered someone's constitutional rights? I mean, fuck, you know, I think it's ridiculous to give shit someone actually doing their job.

As an attorney, I find it offensive that somehow her work defending this guy AS HIS COURT APPOINTED ATTORNEY could somehow be used against her.

Lawyers sometimes take cases, and clients, that are distasteful. But, you still have to provide representation.

Thanks for sharing your measurements! They are relevant!

Absolutely. It ties into the commercialism that has perverted what "feminism" should be and do into something that sells shit.

Amen! So many pages of my year book featured sports & cheer - there were a piddly few devoted to academics. I don't think that influenced anyone's future choices. And if it did they were too easily influenced

A yearbook captures the essence of a graduating class - they've always had random little featurettes, common moments, and other side crap (not to mention pages upon PAGES of ads). I see no problem here with celebrating that actually graduating with a teen pregnancy is an achievement. We should absolutely be promoting…

I think it's worth thinking more about why it makes you uncomfortable.

If it's their senior year and they're graduating it seems like a pretty big achievement, don't you think?

It is. Honestly, I hate this idea that teen parenting is somehow glamorized. None of the teen parents I've met thought it was glamorous when they became pregnant. And big props to the one guy with the little girl. A lot of teen dads aren't that involved because society tells them that it's "not their responsibility",…

Good for the school for being progressive and inclusive. Shame on the parents for getting pissed. I had a friend who was excluded from her senior year book (and not allowed to cross the stage) because she was pregnant. It still upsets her. She got pregnant, made the choice to have the baby and was punished for it.

I think it's an accomplishment to stay in school as a teen parent and graduate.

Isn't it interesting how instead of focusing on her by all accounts useless and uninspiring husband, the entire narrative is about how that overindulged, uppity bitch insulted the brave French people?

Further down in the comments a few people were discussing the microbes in the GI tract and wondering if an imbalance (due to undiscovered reasons) may be effecting people. I find that really interesting and something scientists should pursue more.