For the most part, the professors are at or near the top of their fields, and the student body is (for the most part) stimulated, engaged, smart and really competitive. That usually leads to an energetic learning environment in which discussions can go far beyond basics. And there are dumb and/or rich kids…

No; he is. But if you don’t have a leg to stand on...you make the best of what you have. He tried with a disingenuous citing of a statute that he knew was later amended by a more specific statute. He went for cheap public points. Whether or not she’d pointed it out, in fact the amendment does exist; he took a…

No; he is. But if you don’t have a leg to stand on...you make the best of what you have. He tried with a disingenuous citing of a statute that he knew was later amended by a more specific statute. He went for cheap public points. Whether or not she’d pointed it out, in fact the amendment does exist; he took a…

She was incredibly admirably restrained by not condescending to explain to him how later, more specific statutes/provisions really almost always trump the earlier, less specific ones. She alluded to it in a very graceful and elegant way, all the more impressive because they both knew this principle good and well, and…

Ugh! I had a terrible first-and-only-date with a guy who did this to me. I really like football, and I know a lot more than your average Joe, particularly about my home team...so the topic comes up, and he decides to grill me on every rarely-used play at me and each position’s specific role and on 8th-round draft…

She was well prepared.

About 90% of litigation briefs are composed of language-splicing and often tortured interpretation. Dorkalicious male lawyers may visibly salivate with pride when they manage to make a gotcha, but it’s hardly limited either to men or to conservatives: it’s the profession.

It’s not unethical to memorize citations or precedent; it would be unethical to rely on that recollection in giving legal advice without confirming or knowing it was still in effect or applicable.

Let’s be honest: a) he’d have done that regardless of the gender of the person he was showboat-grilling, and b) her zingers were along similar lines. That’s debating - substantive zingers. I really do admire her ability to do that in her very direct but not heated way. She kept her speaking pace the same and her…

The suicide wasn’t revenge. She was going to do that for herself, or for her own situation. The revenge was the tapes that outed every one of the kids who had betrayed, dropped, ignored, disregarded, denigrated, exploited or raped her (and the counselor who discouraged her).

Jesus was not a murderer nor a rapist of women and little girls.

Here’s a quote from one of them: “What I did was an act of cowardice; it was cold blooded; it was evil. If the day I was found guilty...they would’ve took me out the next day and executed me, I feel as though it would have been a just execution.” (Don Davis, in an interview with KARK 4 News, which I found quoted in…

You believe that someone who had been with him for nearly 30 years had no idea he was under the influence? Please. People knew. Christ, he nearly died not long before he actually did. Not that they could have fixed him or forced him to do anything, but I think it’s absolutely disingenuous that anyone around him -…

The doctor in question was also with a clinic that doesn’t “allow for shady shit.”

Actually, he was a reasonably well-respected doctor in a well-respected practice associated with a well-respected hospital system, living and working in a very nice area and probably just like any other upper-middle-class dad living in a comfortable area with great public schools and doing Dad-daughter dances and…

You’re 100% correct. Honestly, even getting Adderall is an unbelievable pain in the ass. Having to go in person every couple of months (and pay) to basically shake hands with the psychiatrist & tell him, yep, everything is the same, then him having to handwrite out a separate scrip for each of the next 3-4 months,…

Why would she necessarily care about her reputation after her father leaves office? She didn’t really have one beforehand, and she is completely insulated if she wants to be. She may, in fact, care, but unlike most people, she’ll live a perfectly comfortable life either way.

Of course there’s a choice. Millions of divorced or single people with kids survive on one income all the time. It fucking sucks, but it’s possible. At least with a two-parent home, you know there’s a backup in case.

Unlike all the other 18-year-olds out there, who have mostly solved matters of international security, pandemics and poverty?

Oh, ffs, she’s 24 years old, from freaking South Dakota. She’s a ding but it’s simply not fair to compare her accomplishments and savvy with a 46-year-old woman who’s been on national television and lived in NYC for ages.