Krakauer wrote an expose on sexual assault there recently (Missoula) that was pretty relevant for a while - and tied in part, but not entirely, to the football team and boosters. Not clear enough on the timeline personally to know if it ties into this story/coach, but definitely put UM on my radar as something other…

I’m guessing Mnuchin and people like him never would be identified as being in the “entertainment industry” though. He’s not really a movie maker in the classic Hollywood sense of a producer, wheeling and dealing to get a director’s vision funded. He’s a financier who happened to see movies as a good vehicle to obtain…

At least be honest enough to say we’ve only had 3 wins since 1990. Seeing as how we weren’t in the Finals from 50 through 90 it is a pretty misleading statistic to anchor your analysis back to then - might as well go all the way back to our first trip in 1930 and rope in our wins over Belgium and Paraguay and…

Can’t speak to her, but as a 44 year old white guy it was the fact I’ll chase good writing and an honest dialogue on politics and race just about anywhere. I personally find it quite valuable to access a space like this - outspokenly proud of racial identity and heritage and the continued problems in American society…

I didn’t ignore it, actually - I think you have me confused with Jujy Monkey. I’m the parent of an adult with autism - I’m well aware of Willowbrook, and Pennhurst nearly a decade before it, and how those early exposes (along with massive amounts of advocacy by both people associated with DD causes and the broader…

Yes, Willowbrook was important. But the way he leveraged it almost immediately tells you the good was incidental and resulted from his transactional rather than being a matter of morals or intentionality. So he’s a dick, but a dick whose dickishness led him to see the potential in a somewhat exploitative expose.

It really depended on what industry you were in and where in the country you lived. I went to college and law school in California in the 90s and got a strict diet of women are equal, treat them that way - even opening a door for someone could get you a lecture on being a chauvinist at UC Berkeley in the early 90s.…

He did keep referring to the tribal leaders who attended a meeting with him as “chief” instead of by,say, their names when he was bragging about how he wouldn’t enforce the law against them if they illegally extracted oil - so progress?

Bannon is the guy who put the worm in Trump’s ear that he’s like Jackson - a “man of the people” who wanted to “drain the swamp.” Jackson actually disdained expertise much like Trump - and did a lot of stupid things as a result - but it is a weird, tortured analogy that I don’t think Trump has a clue about the…

Bannon consciously crafted Trump as the successor to Jackson as a “man of the people”. I’m pretty sure he was the inspiration for that portrait being installed in a central place in the Oval Office. Yes the analogy is tortured to death (Jackson was whatever else a man who was scrupulous about his personal honor as he…

Yeah I’am grateful the Orange Dotard was too busy with claiming he got Person of the Year and all the other nonsense not to turn the DMZ shooting by N. Korea into a basis for invading.

We all have a degree of plasticity with our memories, especially when we really want something to be true. Motivated cognition to this degree, though, is definitely a symptom of deep mental problems. This is Baghdad Bob level of denial of reality.

Admittedly eligible non-voters are by definition low information and generally checked out but anything you can do to activate them would be great. I spend my time trying to get 18-25 year olds to see all the way government matters to them (a lot of them voted in the last Presidential election, but almost none of them…

Not surprising if you’ve ever read arrest reports for a while. Police can make just about anything they want into a basis for resisting arrest - two that always stuck with me in a short period of time was one guy getting written up for putting his hands out (because he was “bracing” his wrists/arms) while another got…

Vehicular homicides are prosecuted successfully fairly commonly (especially where alcohol is involved). However, we as a society have simultaneously lowered the consequences relative to other crimes and set the burden of proof at gross rather than simple negligence in no small part because we collectively can more…

Not only that, but if it was an election year she probably got more time. There’s evidence that prosecutors and judges at the state level get tougher when they think the public may be paying attention, rather than more compassionate - and when they do show compassion, it is typically for well off white men/boys (i.e.…

Fire departments are often organized as “special districts” which means they are a separate body from the county or city government. They sometimes get funding the city, county or state controls, but in other instances they have their own tax base/rate setting ability/funding sources, and definitely their own rules…

Okay, because you were trying major felony cases without any supervision and no recourse short of impeachment to remove you your first week. Don’t even try to compare - that’s apples and radiators.

They really don’t get much training relative to the scope of the job- not sure what you are basing that on. There’s a very short orientation (1 week for district courts, 2 days for appellate) for new judges by the Federal Judicial Center (which is actually voluntary) and then you are pretty much learning on the job.

But when law professors get tapped for the courts, it is almost always at the appellate level. Which is actually pretty damn similar to what they do all day (read briefs, question/intimidate lawyers at oral argument, write opinions is pretty similar to read case law for classes, deliver lectures/intimidate students…