Lionel Hutz is a deep cut. Props to you for that one.

I think formal debating is very good preparation for attorneys who are going to work on appeals. I think it’s less useful for actually convincing people who are not lawyers of anything.

Actually, it’s an open question whether a U.S. citizen born abroad can be the president. The Constitution requires that they be a “natural-born” citizen, and nothing more is said about it. No court has ever heard a case about eligibility of a presidential candidate on those grounds. My view is that since none of our…

Or “anal sin action”.

In fairness, occasionally Thomas authors the most hateful opinion himself (or his clerks do), but I strongly suspect that he/they start it before oral arguments are heard, and possibly before briefs are filed.

“A disgusting human centipede.” Maybe I’m not hip anymore, but is there another kind of human centipede?

Yeah, this gets to sound more tongue-in-cheek the more it’s dissected.

Thank you. You are too!

See, my friends and I are all pretty general nerds. So we debate everything when we have a party. We have had lots of discussions of everything from statistics to literature to epistemology. Religion and politics are among our least heated discussions. I love it.

Thank you for saying this. My anxiety is bad enough that I avoid, or at least put off, quite a few “normal” behaviors. So when I actually do them, I like to feel a little pride about it.

This actually earned them an invitation to my next party.

You are surely right that assigning a mean to this set is not an obviously useful thing to do. A median may be meaningful, since we can impose some ordinality (namely alphabetization).

That hadn’t occurred to me, but it’s going to annoy me now too. Even within the Star Wars universe, it’s General Kenobi

I’m just shocked that Ted Bundy would blame others for what he did.

My understanding is that they test “extras” under the same rules as all performers if there is to be any risky contact whatsoever. It’s not impossible that she contracted HIV on a porn set, but it is very unlikely under the current testing regime, and with negative results for co-performers after the fact.

I have interacted with a large enough sample of abortion protesters, in more than one location, to conclude that the large majority of them share some negative attributes. I take it from the level of defensiveness in your reply that this is personal, which is why it’s kind of funny that you’re decrying my criticism of…

I hope he never does.

As someone who enjoys giving oral, I’ve had a woman tell me that she didn’t like receiving it, but did like to be fingered. I don’t think it ever registered as juvenile to me. Or at least the maturity of a woman knowing what she wanted from me outweighed any of the acculturated thoughts about “only” going to second…

A quick test shows that I can put my phone in this position with little effort, and my arms are in a very normal proportion to my body. So the logistics are easy. I can’t come up with a good reason to do this, however.

Yeah I don’t understand that. I realize there’s a lot of diversity in what people are looking for in sexual partners, but saying, “I have no knowledge of female anatomy at all, nor do I care to,” doesn’t seem like a good pick up line anywhere.