You have my sympathy. It is very difficult to be in that situation. The hardest thing I ever had to hear was in a parents only group therapy session at one of the centers (maybe even Monte Nido, I don’t recall) where the head of the center essentially told us “Look, your child can die, and there is absolutely nothing…
My heart goes out to you — I almost lost my daughter to ED, she was literally at death’s door. In an out of various residential treatment centers, including Monte Nido (which was very good), over a four year period. with plenty of outpatient treatment along the way as well. She is doing much better now, but it is a…
I’ve now bought two cars using the Consumer Reports online program with TRUECar, and both times I got a very good price —well-below MSRP, and no hassle or up-selling when I went to pick up the cars. In fact, both times (at different dealers) when I was filling out the paperwork with the finance person, each remarked…
Not active in the Academy myself, but I have a son who is and he told me the biggest perceived impact within the Academy is knocking all of the folks without recent credits off the voting lists. That will immediately skew the voting much younger, though again, that is a relative term within the Academy — 55 year olds…
Thank you for living the dream of all us Top Chef fans.
Oh yeah —definitely watching. Just finished Jeffrey Toobin’s The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, which is a pretty good, and gossipy account of the murder and trial. I was practicing law in LA at the time, and knew some of the players in the legal community, so I followed the case closely at the time.…
Forrest MacNeil could have used this....
Maybe not the worst, but oddest things I’ve seen/experienced.
A law school classmate of mine actually tried the reverse ploy —having his girlfriend take the bar exam for him. The consequences were pretty severe for both of them —criminal charges. The Bar Examiners take that stuff seriously. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-27/loc…
Add to your list of museums to spawn outrage : The Confederate Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. As one Yelp reviewer aptly put it:
My teenage daughter was jogging on the sidewalk along Mid-Wilshire in Los Angeles (wide sidewalk and very few pedestrians) and had an LAPD officer yell at her “Slow down or I’ll give you a ticket!” I don’t think that running on the sidewalk is illegal.
I learned to drive in a 1972 280 SEL 4.5 that my dad bought new for around 10 grand. Still the best handling car I have ever driven for its size. Quick acceleration, precise, responsive steering I still judge all other cars by, flat when powering through curves (as opposed to his later 76 and 78 Cadillacs which…