Nope, I don't think I'm missing that, although I think it's a valid point to make. But any good lawyer is going to be defending some bad people. That's literally their job. And I say this as someone who assists law enforcement on certain murder investigations. Amal Alamuddin is a rockstar, even if some of her clients…

She also represents Julian Assange, who I think is probably sleazy as hell and should face extradition and stand trial for rape. Your point?

"I would argue they're a great match." I agree completely, and said as much in an earlier reply which may have not shown up for various Kinja-related reasons. ;) I really like Clooney a lot and am rooting for this couple, and mostly framed my response like I did because I'm sick of the media coverage as a whole that…

I think that's very sad but very true. I really have nothing against Clooney, I think he's a good person (as far as anyone can tell based on press, anyway) and he really does use his fame for good and in a quiet, real way (unlike someone like, say, Sean Penn and his show-boaty trip to Iraq). I just think it's a shame…

She is way out of his league. I mean I'm sure he's brilliant and is obviously wildly successful and is definitely handsome and all, but he's an actor. She's a brilliant, gorgeous, stylish, successful person who is actively making the world a better place as her day job. He does that too but he uses his fame to do it.…

I've always stuck to my dealbreakers and I think it works because they are very limited and picky. I commented on the linked GT post talking about my dog ones...basically, my partner has to have the same dog-training philosophies I do. Given that I work with dogs for a living and I have a fairly moderate approach…

I googled it really quick to double-check because I thought it was one of the later ones, and that's what the first sources said. I could very well be wrong though, or your insurance company might have adopted it earlier than was legally required. :)

Plan B is available without a prescription but it wouldn't have worked here because the daughter was already pregnant. It doesn't cause abortions.

At least in my experience, personal care aides don't typically have any medical training besides maybe a first aid class and a brief HIPAA course, neither of which would address the legal issues surrounding ordering prescription drugs online.

Others have explained what it is, but I'll add that at least in my area of the US, it's pretty much second to prom in the high school dance social calendar. ;) It's definitely the most important dance that all grades can attend (other dances are like holiday dances...a winter formal, a Valentine's dance, a spring…

It's also pretty common on some reservations. I've eaten it a lot while traveling in rural/remote areas, so maybe that's it? It is weird though, I would have expected chile too given how much people talk about it in real life.

I lived in the part of NM that feeds this hospital. It is very rural and extremely poor, like to a degree most people in other parts of the US can't fathom. "Germ" is definitely more accessible. This isn't like relatively educated people thinking antibiotics will kill a virus; it's a somewhat shocking level of…

I'm sorry for your loss.

See, I thought we were having a good-faith discussion up until you told me to go fuck myself. I'm serious here, because my apology about my assumptions was honest. Those assumptions and projections were inappropriate of me. And I guess it was blunt but I'm not sure how it came across as dishonest. I apologized for my…

You're so cute. And here I started out taking you seriously!

KK, I'll dismiss you too because you must have missed the part where I've dealt with additction firsthand. To spell out the details, I was addicted to amphetamines for 4 years then struggled with alcohol abuse (but was functional) for another 5 or so years. I've also broken my neck and had resulting nerve damage that…

Okay man, I think we're talking totally past each other because I didn't mean to imply any of that shit with my first posts. I *know* addiction isn't something you just get over. But I also know that some people have more success with doing that than others.

You know what? You're right. I'm sorry. As soon as I wrote that, I regretted it. I'm up waiting for a call and am overtired, which isn't an excuse, just an explanation.

Your words, which I directly quoted (substituting third-person pronouns for first-person) in my post. If I'm getting the wrong impression, I apologize. But you do seem to be minimizing the seriousness of addiction and the inability of some people to fight it...

Yeah, that was kind of my point. Your experience is that it fucked with your life but only relatively mildly so. But anyone who has been through recovery has seen people who have tried to get sober and still wind up drinking themselves to death or ODing or whatever. Do you really think that's all just willpower? Do…