Eh, I might disagree with ya there.

I still see them used, but increasingly what you get is a set up with a screen and a kneeler to one side of the priest and a chair in front of the priest. So you as the penitent decide your anonymity.

The amount of time I have spent playing this is inversely proportional to the amount of time I've spent just struggling to filter the advice of the fan community.

Eh, to be fair, apart from maybe some highly privileged positions within academia very little is likely to make you as skeptical of American meritocracy and higher education than time in grad school and/or around graduate students.

Yeah, the original intent of the US legal system was to avoid civil disorder and to help check some forms of government power. Prosecuting lawbreakers is a means to an end.

Also, contrary to the way they were used in the article, they were pretty fucking dangerous.

Loan officer slides sheet across the table:
"Here's what your credit and financials qualify you for, and here…"
slides substantially less encouraging paper over prior paper
"…is what you get because you are human trash."
…
"Now go out and cry your way through getting pelted with shit by chipmunks because Papa BofA don't…

A double keeled hull, all that superior rigging? Space junks are the furthest thing from junk!

Huh, I hadn't thought about the fact that what happened to Cary with regard to Bishop during his trial might very well be the sort of evidence the SA's office needs but that he didn't have before the trial.

That's been an ongoing problem for the firm as its involved in this plotline - it's very unclear they could ever give the SA's office what the SA's office wants.

Yeah, that made no Damn Sense At All.

Does he represent Diane or the firm?

That's possible.

Honestly, I'm just happy for Alicia to have something approaching a friend again, even if only temporarily.

Yeah, maybe. Like it's not an illegal act to record with 1 party consent, it's just not admissible evidence? But even that doesn't make a ton of sense.

Thank you for covering this, I know nothing about Illinois systems, but it struck me as impossible that they weren't riding roughshod over local nuances.

I read that as more Diane defining the seriousness of the issue than as Diane assessing the probable threat.

I'm actually sort of up in the air about how significant a supermajority would be in Illinois. Not having to deal with filibusters can be a huge advantage, but filibusters mean different levels of headache in different states.

He's not really in a great situation for him power-wise.

He is a machine politician, but he's not OF the machine.