I would wager that only a small minority of such things are in there because the person drawing up the contract is sincerely trying to anticipate changes to case law. I am thinking more along the lines of a landlord who draws up something on their own, or adapts it from some junk they found on nolo.com, and says that…

The pervasiveness of contracts with unenforceable provisions or clauses is astounding to me, as a non-lawyer observer. There seems to be a whole side of the legal business that just essentially tricks people into thinking they are obligated to do/not do X or Y thing just because it says so in a contract.

It’s cool, I imagine it can be very frustrating to see a bunch of people having a conversation that doesn’t personally interest you, such that you need to participate in the conversation in order to let everyone know that

Tough day huh 

This is part of the irony for me. “People my age” are totally into Pokemon. But when I was 15, people who were 12 were not “people my age.” Whereas at, say, 36, a 33 year old basically is. 

I have to admit I do appreciate the fact that if someone sees the house from a great distance (since it is so prominent on the hillside), you can say “oh yeah, that place. Danielle Steel lives there.”

It is clearer every day that this is a public health issue, not a criminal issue, and the solutions need to be in line with that basic, screamingly obvious fact. Alternately, we can just keep doing what we’ve been doing for decades with substances from marijuana to crack to oxycontin and see if we can eliminate the…

See, I bet if I had a younger sibling or hung out with younger cousins or even frequently babysat anybody, I would have a better working knowledge of Pokemon than the nothing I currently have. Everyone in my family is quite a bit older than me.

I worked at an arcade as a teenager, right when Pokemon made its debut. Pokemon cards were a major part of my stock in trade. However, as I was 15 and the kids desperate for the cards were all under 12, I very firmly put it into the category of “kid shit” that I had no interest in.

I’ve been inside that house. I have been inside a handful of the craziest mansions in Pacific Heights (related to my job). These people are all looney toons.

Yes, of course, this is the problem and why I said I wish there were a more effective way. I don’t suggest we airlift out all the middle-to-upper class white liberals. I am a white guy and I grew up in a place that I recognized was not the right place for me, so I drew on my resources (so to speak; I’m not talking…

If this is what you call a “hard-won history & culture,” I don’t really have anything else to say to you

To be honest it just makes me glad I don’t live in one of America’s many assholes. I wish there were a more effective way to stuff Alabama-type people into Alabama and get the decent people out.

Oh christ, it’s the “no political debates on a tech blog” asshole again

Not to dwell on this but I have to wonder what her stylists/PR people/etc think they are accomplishing by dressing a brand new mother in a virginal white dress the day after she gives birth. It’s .... rather inappropriate, for a number of practical and philosophical reasons. It really strikes me as bizarre. 

I just want to say that I like your screen name :)

No, just that he sounds like someone “we” hate.

If this guy had dreadlocks and those cups were full of joints, it would look a lot like several parties I remember from college 

When I was a freshman in college, I was watching the Godfather with a bunch of friends in their dorm suite. All of us had seen it before except my friend Tom, who lived in the suite. They had a suite-mate named Craig who was a sociopath and widely hated on campus. He wasn’t around, but he knew what our plans were that…

Who would have guessed that “Harrison Bergeron” would turn out to be one of the most prescient things Kurt Vonnegut ever wrote.