That depends entirely on whether the case were to be heard by a decent judge, or, alternatively, by a judge who thinks like Samuel Alito or Neil Gorsuch.

In real life she died miserably and young (just 39), of complications of childbirth, after having started a potentially impressive career as a painter in Europe and marrying a younger man from Switzerland.

Cropping and other forms of mutilation toward a breed standard are bad enough: but the crimes that have been committed against creatures through overbreeding are downright nightmarish. Look at what the show breeders did to the collie—-a gorgeous, hardy, lovely working dog bred over generations for a long, thin,…

Look up “the death of empathy.” It’s one of the propaganda tactics used by the extreme right to smooth the path to killing off the safety net.

The women on my side of the family are all progressive-to-far-left: the women on my husband’s side are Donald voters.

I’ve never been so happy in my life to have been wrong about my predicted outcome as I am in this moment.

Be mindful of the role played here by John Roberts, who pushed Citizens United to the top of the Supreme Court docket in 2009, then pushed it through on a 5/4 ruling in time to impact the outcome of the crucial 2010 mid-term elections. This is how he put men like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer directly in control of…

Well, sure, just look at its enormous nose.

This culture is so deeply conditioned to be indifferent at best to the plight of a flawed or imperfect victim (this is the consequence of the right’s long “war on empathy,” which has enabled them to attack the welfare system and the safety net by suggesting that anyone who is poor, ill, jobless, homeless, or whatever,…

Too bad for us all: the rest of America is not wrong. Alabama is a shit hole. All of America will soon be a shit hole: a vast, reeking, violent, forgotten tax- and regulation-free zone for unhinged billionaires, with us proles battling it out for fried squirrel and moonshine down in the swamps.

Grassley is a vicious old fuck who is probably in the early stages of dementia, who has parlayed a lifetime on the public payroll into a neat little racket whereby he and his donors reap huge rewards—-billions with a b, not millions with an m——all the while screwing his voters out of the little bit of pocket change…

When I was young it was commonplace for men to say, loftily, pityingly, that while perhaps women could cook it was well known that all the great chefs of history were men; and while it was perhaps the case that some women, with proper mentorship, could take pen to paper and write a little something, it was well known…

Outside of a setting where there are legitimate security or proprietary issues, I think NDAs have been abused in much the same way as forced arbitration clauses, and for much the same reason. I’d be happier without them. They overwhelmingly work in favor of those in positions of power, against those who are relatively…

I agree.

This one is getting a truly weird whitewash, with Franks asserting that it all stems from mere misunderstandings about conversations he had with staffers about surrogacy, and of course, he deeply regrets it if they took it the wrong way, or whatever, but he’s resigning because, oh well, what? Anyhow, I expect this one…

If there were a Hell, Donald would have to spend at least a portion of his eternity in it (guaranteed minimum sentence: for-fucking-ever, Donald) standing at a podium naked in front of the entire crowd from the Obama inauguration speech, saying the phrases “two-state solution” and “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel”…

It’s just the best, isn’t it?

The Enquirer, owned by friend-of-Donald David Pecker, a loathsome little man, is avidly pro-Republican, pro-Trump, pro-everything ugly, fascistic, and unwholesome. One can only marvel that everybody associated with such a repugnant publication hasn’t long since been exposed for various acts of remorseless evil and…

“You got to know when to hold ‘em,
Know when to fold ‘em,
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run.
You never count your money
When you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’
When the dealing’s done.”

Lauer may not get that $30 million from NBC (although I bet they figure out some way to pay him off), but at least he’s going to be getting that huge tax break from the party he helped put in power.