Speaking of which, does Trump ever wear an AMERICAN FLAG pin? If not, why isn’t he in GITMO right now with the other unloyal animals?

Turkish oil wrestling. Very traditional, very messy.

Because Scalia said it was in DC v. Heller. Really can’t defend the logic, but there it is - the latter are “unusual” and handguns aren’t. That’s all there is in terms of explanation, but he made it very clear that you have a right not just to a handgun, but one that is operable in a timely manner for self defense.…

DC v. Heller states that under the 2d amendment you have a right to own a handgun for self defense, which makes it pretty hard to go hard after handguns or even regulate the conditions under which they can be kept in homes (which sucks, frankly but it is what it is). It also states we can ban “unusual” weapons…

Ohio and California both have pretty good inspection regimes. But that’s also because places like Disneyland and Cedar Point have an incentive to create a safe harbor through regulations (“we did everything we had to” works better as a defense when the regulations at least seem comprehensive) as well as discouraging…

The efforts of the company after the accidents were amateur hour stuff which is in no small part why they are getting indicted. The reason the record keeping is so lax though is largely due to the fact that in most states the business lobbies dominate the rulemaking process to an even greater degree than at the…

Outside of the military, not really - and even there it is not so much the sexual relationship as it is if that relationship is detrimental to the military (ie sleeping with a subordinate or some other member of the military’s spouse). According to this NY based lawyer, it is almost aways used as a added charge, is…

You don’t know Bell’s story then - he literally ate at a Mexican restaurant in the same town, appropriated it and gringofied it (fucking ground beef in place of carne asada) without so much as a thank you to the people he ripped off.

And shockingly the family is not bitter about having their much better food ripped off and turned into a commodity by Bell. Or at least that’s what they said to Gustavo Arellano and David Chang on the Netflix series Ugly Delicious.

When they find my withered corpse, tell them it was MP that did it. About the only thing worse for my productivity would be getting the complete works of Terry Pratchett dropped into my living room.

5-2 straight party vote (and the only Dem they aren’t trying to impeach basically said the legislature could have until 2020 to fix the maps). The fact the state wide judicial elections come back 5 Dems and 2 Republicans, as well as the governorship being won by Dems, yet the state Senate having 2/3 GOP seats pretty…

5-2 straight party vote (and the only Dem they aren’t trying to impeach basically said the legislature could have until 2020 to fix the maps). The fact the state wide judicial elections come back 5 Dems and 2 Republicans, as well as the governorship being won by Dems, yet the state Senate having 2/3 GOP seats pretty…

He’s a six term incumbent in a moderate district (D+6 but pretty white and middle-class/affluent). Primary voters tend to be more extreme (especially with the GOP) but they also tend to be older, wealthier, more established, all of which tends to favor moderate candidates on the Dem side - caucuses and conventions are…

I kind of hope the movie is nothing but hours of live streaming of them drinking wine and hanging out. Should be amazing.

The trial (and especially TPM’s daily reporting on it) were fun - it was a mashup of 2 of my favorite things - Federal judges going off on shitty lawyers and bad social science getting exposed as crap - but I’ll wait to see what the 10th Circuit (the fellows who were Gorsuch’s colleagues) have to say before I break…

Max Cleland being labeled unpatriotic by a draft dodger. Tammy Duckworth being smeared by a guy who used the reserves to avoid active duty. John Lewis being called basically lazy and not working for his district by Trump.

Can we all agree that Diet Rite is trash, though?

Autistic adult here (and parent of lower functioning autistic kid) and yep. Not talking about everyone (hence the modifier often), but people who are the bulk of what we used to reserve the diagnosis for (ie non Asperger’s) are generally incapable of applying cause and effect in their daily decision-making. They will…

The moment she was doing any facilitation of communication she created a relationship that imposed ethical and legal obligations on her. That’s true regardless of how the relationship began.

No ethicist I’ve studied with would fit this description - if anything they tend to be the most scrupulous and self-reflective about their conduct because they know that all justifications are contestable.