Maybe in this small town, but it still feels a bit fishy to me. If he's such a stickler on decorum, it's Counselor. Reading the transcript, he says her first name over 5 times but no one else's.

that annoyed me so much reading it from Malcolm Gladwell about how people who, through no fault of their own, are entering the job market in a recession and basically their salary is depressed FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. I’m hoping he’s just wrong b/c...Malcolm Gladwell

It’s possible, but we would need the full transcript to verify. What if he told her to be quiet and wouldn’t even let her make an argument/do her job? Also, him calling her by her first name instead of “Counselor” is a huge red flag.

Where I’m from, Justice of the Peace Court is court for civil cases with amounts less than 10k and some misdemeanor criminal cases. I think of it as “Court Lite” - the Justice of the Peace is still referred to as a Judge (at least in my region), but it’s not as intense as the “real” civil/criminal/family courts…

Haha, I’m banking on it! (the #notallmen)

Do you think you are stronger now? Haha

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with living with parents (it’s very normal in a lot of the world). But yeah, a lot of people discount how much help they get from their parents financially and otherwise because “they work hard and aren’t like those other moochers.”

Or your parents can just BUY you a damn house/condo (after finding out a good number of my acquaintances have had this happen for them)

Sigh ... Sometimes (who am I kidding, all the time) I worry that I will never escape my fucked up past. I am completely scathed. Done therapy, EMDR, neurofeedback, hypnotherapy, CBT, the works. I struggle valiantly, but good god I don't want to be hero fighting dragon ALL my life.

I’m worried I’m going to be alone FOREVER because I refuse to be with someone who can’t unbottle their crap and sit with it and be vulnerable (but also strong). I’ve had to live a very hard and fucked up life (abuse) and the only way I am getting through it is by unbottling, being vulnerable, and standing strong…

Was she in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?

The irony of a full statement released on a media platform known for “temporary messages,” therefore making it very hard to fully scrutinize their statement - it’s kinda genius, in a horrible, horrible corporate way

full statement on snapchat

True - that was a bad plan. But overall, and this is my experience from my years in Austin - it’s not a “liberal city.” It’s great if you’re rich and you’re white and it blows slightly less ass than the rest of Texas, but it’s still crushingly systemically racist.

They reportedly made these shirts for their spring formal, even after the school told them not to. Guess what happened.

but I would recommend Neal Pollack’s accurately jaundiced take on my obstinate hometown. Austin, he writes, did this to itself. The city put itself in the position of choosing between a drunk driving epidemic (there were more than 6,000 DUI arrests in 2013 and 2014) and the strongarm tactics of app-based car services…

I think I’ve talked about this numerous times in other articles, but, good god, there are SO MANY federal judges that are either idiots or just...bad. Unethical bad, legally bad, bad at their jobs...sigh. There are so many in my state and all you can do is wait for them to die off before they do too much more damage…

Is it that important to have them around when you’re older? I mean - my parents are absolute shitstains, so them being alive still, to me, isn’t that huge of a boon. Some of my friends don’t have parents around (also assholes, or maybe dead, etc.). Sure, it would be ideal to have awesome parents around for a while,…

Yeah, but almost anyone could die tomorrow. There’s someone at my work where her sister-in-law runs marathons and eats healthy and all that, super young, who had mouth cancer recently. A lot of people don’t have back-up plans, and we definitely don’t censure them as much as the comments in this article have been. I…

No idea - the one he was trying to sell me on was this weekend retreat thing