To be fair to her, leading with one’s ultimate conclusion is part of several widely accepted and taught methodology for legal writing. The most classic method is IRAC: Issue, Rule, Application Conclusion. At my law school (and many others,) they teach CREAC: Conclusion, Rule, Explanation of rule, Application,…

She did not eviscerate him. She derailed the conversation to lecture him on trans-inclusive language, and then accused him of causing trans people to commit suicide because he was confused about trans-inclusive language.

I’m legitimately interested in the logistics of this sort of operation, but if I had to guess, I’d wager they’d leverage the proximity of Mexico or Colombia to load or unload crew, medical providers, etc. From there they (the crew and/or service providers,) could fly to a civilized state (Cali, Oregon, Washington,…

So she won a million internet lefty cool points, and Hawley gets to go back to Missouri and stump/campaign/raise money on how well he triggers libs, how batshit “these/those people” are, and the fact that he ‘can’t even ask questions’ (questions his constituents probably find reasonable,) without being accused of…

If Bottone’s challenge is successful, she could inadvertently support anti-abortion activists’ end goal. This goes beyond merely overturning Roe to legally establish fetal personhood, and with it, “equal protection” for embryos and fetuses at the expense of pregnant people’s humanity.

If the other side were to harass politicians like this because of being prolife, then I’ll continue to consider those people’s opinions to be flat out wrong, but at least it is a truly serious issue. But when they do it because they don’t want to wear a mask and still want to run around and potentially infect others,…

The gains made during the 60's did not occur through force of arms, armed conflict in the street, or threatening behavior towards public officials. The fact is that no one threatened the Justices on the Warren or Burger Courts into handing out the monumental, transformative civil rights victories they did—that’s just…

And your point is: the coming revolution is bad? Oh, yes, it’s coming.

Okay, I thought that at least two or three times recently you’d responded to a comment of mine, I replied, and you came back with a single-word response—but I could be mistaken. My bad, if I was wrong about that.

I understand that that’s how people justify things to themselves, but because not everyone agrees with each other about what’s “good” and what’s “bad,” you’re going to have both sides doing this one another, unrestrained by any common or neutral standard of propriety.

Are we actually going to have a discussion, or are you just going to respond with a single word regardless of what I say? I don’t care that much one way or another, but I don’t want to spend the effort to prepare a substantive response for nothing. If you want to have the last word, that’s totally okay with me (throw…

GOP will challenge anything. if your bar is “will it get challenged” then nothing will get done.

If there isn’t a lot of queer love in the MCU, that’s also because there isn’t a lot of love, period . . . . Hopefully the rest of the MCU’s Phase 4 (and beyond) will take a page from Love and Thunder by focusing more on relationships.

A 26-year-old made romantic/sexual overtures towards a 17-year-old, and the takeaway is:

That’s the sort of the problem with this sort of behavior: at best it’s a tit-for-tat shifting of what constitutes acceptable behavior; at worst it’s an invitation to endless escalation. If you decide that certain harassing behavior is okay because (for whatever reason) you don’t like the person being hounded, and…

“Biden’s abortion EO is a promising start, but lacks adequate specificity,” she said.

As long as his partners consented and he’s paying child support, I don’t care one way or the other how many kids the guy has. In fact, assuming he doesn't disinherit any of them, the more people there are to dilute the wealth when he kicks, the better. 

Oh, I’m sure. I was just pointing this out for us ground-dwelling insects.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to say here. I agree that the “trans takeover of women’s sports” is spurious, fear-mongering bullshit (if an overwhelming majority of transwoman in women’s sports utterly dominated those spaces, there might be some something to this concern, but that’s obviously not the case.) …

You’re like a Kinja detective!