I think the most important thing here (nominally at least) is that whomever is picked be qualified. The thing is that all the women who have been discussed as being on the short list are extremely qualified—in fact, they’re basically all superstars. The fact alone that deck is so stacked against Black women in the…

Will you tell the 1.3 million African-Americans in the state that they should be expelled from the country because they’re forced to live with the descendants of the people who enslaved them? Or shall I?

It is a garbage, dead-weight-loss state.

Your point is well-taken, but this is a situation in which (per my understanding) the woman with the handicap understood reproduction, at least mechanically (i.e., how babies are made, that a person gets pregnant for 9 months, etc. — like a middle school understanding of human reproduction.) Having said all that, I…

I get the sense from the article that it is just never okay under any circumstance to put someone in your care (because they can’t take care of themselves for whatever reason,) on birth control—effectively forced sterilization. First off, do I have that right? It just doesn’t look to me like there’s any part of the…

What a complete nightmare. I have a bunch of friends from law school who have worked as public defenders, juvenile advocates, and guardian ad litems, and they all talk about the problematic incidence of people too mentally ill to effectively take care of themselves in the long term the way you’d expect any other adult…

As a general rule, I understand and am in favor of laws and regulations that would create a check against the prescription of medication, or performance of elective medical procedures, for lack of capacity (whether due to age, or some intellectual handicap, or mental illness.) For instance, if someone asks for Ru486…

Which of these women will Sinema and Manchin confirm? This is the most important question given the fact that whomever takes Breyer’s seat is highly unlikely to ever swing a decision one way or another. Basically you’re trying to hire someone who you think will, first and foremost, actually get confirmed (again, this…

I’m happy for him to have seemingly learned something from the the RBG debacle, and while I wish he would just retire, I’m not sure what that would mean for cases that have already been argued before the Court, but for which a decision has not been published. That said, fingers crossed that Manchin and Sinema can play…

If a person is raging because they think someone hurt their kid, and their goal in that moment is to hurt the feelings of the person(s) they think are responsible to the greatest extent possible, then, as a purely practical matter, I don’t think it makes sense to expect that person to consider any given insult is so…

I agree the man and his attorney have a very strong incentive to put forward a version of the story where he underscores the kid’s allergy—but that knife cuts both ways, inasmuch as the employees (and store) have a strong incentive to put forward a version of the story in which the man fucked up. So it doesn’t move…

People want Biden to do more, but the system is set up with like a dozen places for an opposition party to throw a monkey wrench to halt any given piece of policy (the more transformative the policy, the easier for it be flummoxed by the minority party.) Democrats, simply do not have a large enough majority to…

I keep forgetting I can do that!

If what you’re saying is that there’s no amount that would make up for it... I get it and I agree. We’re not going to come up with an amount of money that squares a nigh unfathomable injustice that simply shouldn’t occur in the first place. But once the deed is done, money is all there is. The Boy Scouts of America…

I was not until I got this ridiculous “probably something” response above. 

What did Mary J. Blige or Kendrick Lamar do?

I get where you’re coming from — my comments about U2 were not based on ‘what if U2 played the Superbowl today’ rather, what it meant for U2 to play the Superbowl back in 2002. I didn’t even realize U2 had put out an album in 2017—hell, I didn’t know whether Bono was still alive.

I see a lot of comments in the vein of “well, if a man can basically force a woman to have a child based solely on the man’s preference that the child be born, then he should [xyz remunerative, punitive, or ‘gotcha’ remedy]!” Some are serious seeming (albeit highly unlikely to be implemented,) and some are hyperbolic…

You want the kid so bad to force the woman to bear it to term, it’s yours to take care of from that point forward.

Here’s my take on this; please let me know whether I’m totally off base: