It’s only “harder” in it has a pass rate even lower than the “regular” CA bar exam. But that is most likely due to the kind of person who has to take the baby bar. A person who can’t get into a CA State Bar accredited law school probably has a terrible LSAT score. There are accredited law schools in CA that have…

Have you read your vigilante buddies posts that quote the text of the bill?

Did you read the section you quoted? The law doesn’t grant immunity only when a driver is “being threatened by a “rioter””. The bill allows someone who hits a pedestrian with a vehicle to claim immunity from a civil action brought by the person struck with the vehicle/the person’s surviving family members if the driver…

Corey Robin, a professor at one of the CUNY schools, has for years been pointing out how our individualistic, atomized, neoliberal sociopolitical system is designed to overwhelm people with the need to make so many separate and discrete choices that it consumes a huge amount of our iintellectual ”bandwidth”

I live off Cheshire Bridge closer to Lindbergh/Lavista, so I’m also nearby. The thing that makes me think the sex stuff definitely played a part in his choice of targets/victims is he could have driven another 10 minutes up Cheshire Bridge/Lenox to get on Buford Highway and then  be surrounded by businesses with lots…

The idea we need to just forget about Manchin demanding the bill be changed so it has lower federal UI payments which expire sooner, since the whole package is better than nothing/what the gop would have passed, is giving him a green light to continue doing it for the rest of his Senate term. I don’t know what is an…

The Song dynasty ended in 1279. Half of China is probably in some way descended from the Song dynasty. Just like most everyone in Europe is somehow descended from Charlemagne. It’s the most pathetic thing to brag about.

This has nothing to do with “taxes ”. I know if “feels” like the federal government and you are pretty similar when it comes to debt. That you can only go so long with spending more than your income. But you aren’t an entity with an infinite lifespan that can raise its “income” unilaterally and is the source for the…

It doesn’t seem like they do it to be “cool”. They do it because the version of epistemology prevalent in the academic fields they have/are trying to enter privileges certain “opinions” (not a good word for the concept, but I can’t think of a better one off the top of my head) based in part on the “identity” of the…

Are you serious? The whole point is right now the uber drivers pay the entire payroll tax burden themselves! If the drivers become employees, uber will have to pay half of the payroll tax. That’s a huge reason why uber is fighting this so hard. Becoming employees will cut the drivers’ payroll tax burden in half.

What shaming? It’s obviously meant to be read in the context of the guy running as a representative for the political party that has made tort “reform” one of its most important policy goals at all levels of government. See McConnell’s single-minded focus on passing liability “protections” for businesses (supposedly)…

Don’t forget the king of paralyzed assholes, Texas Governor Greg Abbott. His lawsuit against a homeowner whose tree dropped a branch that broke Abbott’s back was the greatest fight for justice since Brown v. Board. Unfortunately, everyone else who sues for negligence against a person with insurance is just filing…

It’s a “Classic”, and apparently North America only got 1600 of them. But I have a regular 1993 240 wagon in red that was on ~170k miles when I bought it for $1,600 a couple of years ago. In Atlanta, so rust wasn’t a problem. My 245 wasn’t in as good condition inside (the brown plastic Volvo used for the interior map…

Does ”KZ” mean “concentration camp”? If so, you must get the difference between preserving a place in order to remind/prove the horrors which occurred there and a statute glorifying the people who were responsible for the horrors. Have you heard about anyone trying to burn down a plantation museum dedicated to showing…

I’m not sure I would be bragging about having the same facile moral logic as a 9 year old child. Usually they’re not so good at contextualizing an action within a historical context and understanding how it relates to broader social systems. It’s ok for her to be unable to understand the difference between thestate…

Wow, that’s horrible. It goes to show how the republican legislators who refused to allow the government to provide more assistance to people who are hurting from the side effects of public health measures have more blood on their hands than I thought.

Republican controlled states will be willing to give over whatever amount of money Musk wants regardless of the economic climate. They’ll just cut social spending if necessary. The actual dollars and cents analysis is immaterial for republicans. They have ideological and resent based reasons give up state revenue to…

The USD doesn’t have value because of some society wide folie a deux. The dollar has “value” because it is almost impossible to live in America without having access to some baseline amount of US dollars. If only because the government has made US dollars the only acceptable form of payment for federal taxes. The…

So you’re admitting that there is nothing from recent US economic history to support your “just so story” about the inevitable disaster caused by government spending? I just want to make sure we’re on the same page.

When people keep making predictions which don’t come to pass, at what point is it reasonable to ignore (or at least take with a massive grain of salt) the exact same predictions as last time?