Yeah, I mean why would anyone know about an artist who was insanely influential and prolific in modern rock music for like a quarter of a century. Why would anyone even know about someone like that.

A friend of mine recently related a story to me about a conversation she had with her fiancé. It went something like this:

What's wrong with Barbara Boxer, if I might ask.

That's right, I knew she had refused to debate somebody, but I forgot that it was Bernie rather than Drumpf. In any case, she is not being left out of this debate; she has expressly chosen not to participate.

I guess because they're both green? Barf.

Except the reason that Hillary isn’t participating is because she had declined invitations to debate Trump.

Seriously, the Obamas can’t do anything right according to these people. I also want to know what these wackadoos have to say now that the gay Kenyan muslim communist secret-terrorist has been president for 8 years and the US hasn’t been put under sharia law or whatever they were claiming.

But then he'd have to redo his wino forever tattoo!

Yeah, I feel like “irreconcilable differences” is usually code for “someone cheated.”

Remember right after he first took office and Michelle and the girls went to some kind of sale on designer clothes or something, and people lost their minds because HOW DARE THEY BUY FANCY CLOTHES WHILE WE PAY HIS SALARY ARGLE BARGLE. It’s like, do you really want the first family wearing Old Navy while meeting with…

It sounds to me like she was throwing an adult tantrum in court, he warned her several times to stop, she kept going, he held her in contempt. As I said elsewhere, he should not have cuffed her because that isn’t standard procedure for contempt of court. However, he was well within his power to shut her down if she…

I agree, but since there was nothing in the article to indicate that the defendant was being unduly prosecuted, I can only assume that it was a rightful hearing.

I actually didn’t even know how to respond, I was so dumbfounded. I think I said something stupid like “uhhh I like dresses.”

Right, and as I said, the handcuffs were not justified. We agree on that point. I was only speaking to the idea that somehow he wanted to hold her in contempt only because she was a woman speaking her mind, rather than because she was a lawyer who was speaking out of turn during a trial.

Dude, my father in law said that exact thing to me once. I wore a maxi dress once because it was summer and hot and maxi dresses are the best in hot weather, and he said “It’s so nice to see a woman wearing a dress. Women just don’t wear dresses anymore these days.”

So, because she's a woman she should have carte blanche to impede trials because she's not getting her way?

The article doesn’t mention that the judge was ignoring due process, though. The defendant violated his probation, the judge wanted to send him back to jail, which is what happens when you violate your probation. Yes, it’s the job of the defense to try to defend her client, but not by impeding the trial and irritating…

I’m pretty sure it’s not any attorney’s job to continually interrupt the judge during a trial. Lady lawyer or man lawyer, it sounds like she was being a dick. It doesn’t justify the handcuffs, but let’s not pretend that she wasn’t doing anything improper.

Adjunct positions truly are the tenth circle of hell.

What sucks is that to be an adjunct, at least in the US, you need at LEAST a master’s degree, but often a PhD depending on the institution. That is, if you’re not a celebrity with no degree.