She’s got “purer” blood than either of them, if you follow those psychos “logic” so I’m not entirely surprised. Never mind that Slovenia was one of those scary places that we used to limit immigration from because they were “swarthy” and brought “strange ideas” (see all of Eastern Europe, most of the Mediterranean…

There’s a class perception element to not doing PDA throughout old-school Europe (especially anywhere that kept formal titles of nobility/class distinctions - and if I recall correctly she comes from a group of social climbers) and there’s a tribal/family element - my extended Eastern European family is embarrassingly…

It isn’t a fine sentiment - the country that called was the treasonous CSA. Which existed for the express purpose of ensuring that states would retain the right to keep slaves. The UDC consciously chose to write that out of the narrative of the Civil War as part of the redemption of the South, and that in turn makes…

Worth noting the author (Luke Messer) is in a heated primary trying to toady up to the pro-Trump base in Indiana against a guy who already claimed to have Trump’s endorsement when he didn’t (a Trumpian move if there ever was one but Todd Rokita learned the hard way there can be only one Trump). Funny thing is that…

My public school PhD cost something like 27k a year according to the school’s list price. My aid - which included teaching for them - covered about 2/3 of the cost. No private school with an equivalent program is that stingy with funding. For that matter, if I had been in a different degree program at the same school…

I present data, narratives, and perspectives from a variety of settings and try to get students to analyze them critically. Sometimes I get lucky and an unexpected voice will share their perspective. Sometimes the data works, like the DOJ report on the situation in Ferguson, where nearly a quarter of the city budget…

As a UC Berkeley grad who saw how my out of state friends got treated, I can also state that out of state applicants to the UC system generally don’t get a lot of financial aid relative to the out of state tuition. State schools are woefully underfunded and out of state/international students are often seen as a body…

In my experience it goes beyond that to the embedded assumption with most white people (myself included as I grew up) that the entire purpose of every institution from garbage collectors to cops to Congress is to further the idiosyncratic interpretation of “rights” that any given white person possesses. That and the…

Biker gangs got into moving shitty, easy to make speed back in the 70s. There was actually a subtype known as “biker’s crank” that was super low quality. If you think about what you can hide on a motorcycle easily it makes more sense than pot and unlike coke or heroin it can be made anywhere/doesn’t require an…

I’m a former high end civil litigator who left in part because his bosses shared your approach - as long as they weren’t knowingly lying, misstatements and manipulations were just part of the game. I now study and teach legal studies, among other things, and I do my level best to keep my students from adopting that…

No it doesn’t - check the ABA model rules. They eliminated zealous as part of the model rules for a reason. It is in the preamble but not the rules themselves - so it isn’t an obligation, it is a choice.

This could actually be an interesting First Amendment establishment clause case. The concept of abortion as killing human beings is a religious belief as the Supreme Court has recognized in Hobby Lobby. By putting such a monument on state grounds, the state is endorsing a religious viewpoint, which is generally not…

This is where that “give me the confidence of a mediocre white man” meme rings so true. God, what I would give to have the self-confidence of a blithering idiot with a limited world view - only if I was that narrow minded and shallow, I wouldn’t appreciate the blessings it conferred.

Just to clarify though, living in a white neighborhood and sending your kids to majority white school is often based on implicit bias even as it it rationalized on non-racial grounds. People who prize diversity in theory often still wind up living lily white lives because its where they feel “comfortable”. Doesn’t…

Crises Pregnancy Centers. Full Stop.

While you are right that attorney client privilege is held by the client, if a lawyer or the client eliminates the confidentiality of the communication by revealing it to a third party it has the effect of eliminating the basis for the privilege. That’s why lawyers spend so much time and effort on privilege reviews in…

The good news is that district court judges are actually held to greater discipline than the Supreme Court, so a judge who consistently overstepped would be in trouble in most cases. The bad news is this particular seat is overseen by the 5th Circuit which is dominated by GOP appointees of the sort who had no problem…

Chess at the highest levels is full of freaks. Champions frequently rest on the borderline of brilliance and madness (Bobby Fischer being just a notorious example). Kids get pushed to and past their mental limits all the time over the game. There’s plenty of opportunity for predators to abuse kids - the preferred form…

It’s Idaho. The choices will be Neo-Nazi, hardcore right to life and quietly right to life. That last one will be the Democrat.

50 deaths in a city of 8.78 million people? That’s so cute.