As someone who settled in for a Toddlers and Tiaras marathon and was shocked to see her cousin on an episode... please stop exploiting WV for content. 

Yep. For so long, the story of much of West Virginia has been this: Exploit West Virginians to exploit the land of West Virginia. Destroy both the people and the land, and run away with your profits. It’s infuriating and sad and has led to a cycle of poverty that is difficult to break. I teach at a university in WV,…

be wary of any of the coding ‘bootcamps’ - they’re not the guaranteed entree into the field that they used to be and often, community college/state schools have cheaper IT/coding courses that are just as educational. best of luck!

Well this is disappointing and infuriating.

My first thought was “Ha! I bet the bookies didn’t have to pay out to anyone!”

I suspect the “who does he look like” was a coded way of asking about the baby’s skin color. But yes, all those questions were ridiculous. He looks like a newborn baby, he’s probably looks adorably sweet when he sleeps but also cries when he’s hungry/needs to be changed because he is a newborn baby, and that’s what…

As the “Earl of Dumbarton,” which IS Scottish, his title is contingent on THAT country, not England. And in Scotland, they don’t use courtesy titles. So unless the Queen coughs up an English earldom for an infant, which is idiotic, he shouldn’t have a courtesy title. And he doesn’t. He’s going to be a royal highness…

JFC. Except that Dumbarton is in Scotland. And in Scotland:

OK there were a lot of articles before the baby was born that warned people not to freak out because Harry and Meghan’s baby probably wouldn’t have a title and yet, here we are. The baby simply doesn’t need a courtesy title. Everyone in the world knows who he is. It’s superfluous, and they know that. The baby will…

Harrison, literally ‘son of Harry’ 

Did anyone see Monday's birth announcement video, when Harry turned around and thanked Granny's horses?

Okay, thanks, no problem then.

Plus, while she probably didn’t know about it at the time, in the aftermath of the Varsity Blues bust and the kids being expelled for buying their way into school, people would be CONSTANTLY side-eyeing her degree. 

I have a feeling this isn’t about a career but instead a calling for her, which means she’s not going to be taking cases to make money, she’s going to be taking lost cause cases of prisoners who are desperate for any attorney that shows a modicum of interest in their cases. If that’s what she ends up doing, I’ll be…

This is the way my grandfather became a lawyer over 100 years ago. After graduating cum laude from college, he went back to his home town in Missouri and apprenticed to a law firm of I think three lawyers, where he “read law” for three years. He then took and passed the Missouri bar exam “with distinction”. Only then…

My prediction is that when she’s kicking ass in the courtroom 20 years from now, people will still be bleating, “But her sex tape!!!”

Vermont, Virginia, and Washington also have law apprenticeship programs. Maine, New York, and Wyoming also have programs where you don’t have to attend the full 3 years of law school. It is a completely valid, less expensive way to become a lawyer. I don’t know why people are shitting on it. It can actually be more dif…

I watched her interview on Van Jones, she’s definitely serious (and the audience loved her). Her father was an attorney and her mother is a marketing genius, I don’t think that there’s any reason to think that she won’t be a good lawyer. She’s definitely passionate about criminal justice reform and she used her…

“I mean, on the one hand, it certainly seems indulgent for a multi-millionaire to skirt law school and take a swing at studying criminal justice because she has the means (and childcare) to do so”

If they found out a paper in their field might be plagiarized, they are ethically obligated to tell their ethics board. They could be reprimanded for not doing it. This isn’t a moral quandary. The ethics board lays out exactly what their supposed to do in black and white.