My childhood cat who died a few years back used to do that with bread. We’d come into the kitchen to find a shredded loaf of bread. We had to get a bread box specifically to keep him from ruining all bread. He was a sweet cat otherwise.

Good unions do that. My brother is union and they aren’t helping protect him and his coworkers from management at all. It’s a crapshoot.

I find myself humming Pink Floyd’s “Mother” to myself a lot these days, especially when I see one of these articles. 

I had an unfortunate experience as a freshman in college at my first, and to date only, protest that turned me off them entirely. I didn’t think I’d ever be convinced to go to another one, but this one I’m there for. I may not be a scientist anymore, but I’ll be there to stand with my former colleagues.

Speaking as an attorney who became an attorney specifically to do public interest work, you made the better choice.

And that’s not even what sovereign immunity protects against! It prevents citizens from suing the government not the judiciary from ruling on constitutionality.

That last part is extra hilarious to me because I was there for the ‘09 inauguration and was at one if the entrance points where the majority of the ticket holders entering from there got trapped behind the TSA point. I watched them haul replacement security equipment through a crowd of thousands of people, which I’m…

Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but it’s not time for a filibuster yet. These are hearings. The chance for the filibuster is right before the actual vote to delay it.

I think you wildly overestimate how much it costs to send a C&D, especially since I’d be shocked if the Red Cross doesn’t have in-house attorneys that are salaried.

Nintendo usually does have the right legally, though. They do overstep their bounds frequently, especially on YouTube where it’s difficult for most people to fight, but in these type of case they usually aren’t in the wrong legally. In PR terms, yeah, they look like dicks, but they are usually well within their or…

I actually wrote to my senator about that. She’s a professed supporter of small businessines and entrepreneurship, and I made the point that I was considering starting my own business in the next couple of years, but without the ACA I’d be hard pressed to do so. If I can’t get access to affordable health insurance I’d…

I have generally solved this conundrum by giving accidental meat to my dog, which she is pretty down with. A few years ago I accidentally ate chicken while I was in San Juan and vomited it all up before too long. Though I suppose it might have just been bad chicken and not because it was chicken....

I don’t think he lived in the house but the question of where he was is valid—away or some kind of custody issue maybe? This article notes they are separated.

Other articles make it clear they are separated. The “dad” the neighbor mentioned is likely her new husband or boyfriend.

You don’t actually have to be licensed anywhere to have gone to law school. Some people go to law school and then never sit for a bar and do something else with their degree.

Tammy Duckworth is who I’m watching over the next few years. She might have what it takes to beat Trump, but we’ll see.

In fairness, though, how productive is the average comment section usually?

Not to be a pendant, but totally be a pendant, the religion in question is “jedi” rather than Star Wars. Or, a bit rarer, Sith.

I can only speak as someone that watched her mother go through a really rough divorce when I was a teenager. It was devastating for her at the time and for a few years after, but she made it through (having a hell of a divorce attorney helped) and is much happier for it. The divorce part was hard but ultimately my…

In fairness, though, I had an incredibly normal and common name, and I hated it, and for a long time I kind of resented my mom for giving it to me. At 31 I’ve long since got over that, but this is a hard one for parents to win on. Most people I knew growing up had some complaint about their name—either too common or…