I’m a lawyer and I know what common law is. Today in America we do not have common law in the same way that it existed before the Revolution.

It not rooted in American common law. It’s a British rule. The “American Rule,” as it is called, is that each side bears their own costs. The reason for the American Rule is that doig it any other way means that a poor or middle class person will hesitate to enforce their rights even if they have a great case, because…

Cinemark internal memo: “I just thought of a way to get $700,000 of free publicity! It’s BAD publicity, but it’s free!!!!”

“Enrique Trouble.” He’s probably using that name right now.

As I understand it being a non-criminal attorney, it works like this. Most crimes have an intent component. If I punch you, intending to hurt you, but instead I knock you down and you hit your head on the cement and die, the law takes into account the fact that while I intended to hurt you, I didn’t intend to kill…

Exactly. For the same reason that I don’t believe that Bill (or Hillary) killed Vince Foster, I don’t believe these accusations.

Look the Egyptian people might not have liked the Camp David accords, but it did great things for Sadat. His career blew up afterwards.

The Shah may have *thought* the Iranian treasury belonged to him. (He got deposed in large part because of that). It doesn’t mean that the money *actually* belongs to the Shah, rather than the country of Iran.

The agreement was a huge package deal that required the Iranians to do a bunch of things other than release hostages. Such as, terminate their nuclear weapons program (which is a big deal). The US had to remove sanctions, unfreeze Iranian assets, and — yes — return the $400 million we took from them in 1978. With or…

Looks more like a FaceTune fatality.

I live in this area. There’s also opossums. I’m willing to host a meeting about it. Please enter the second floor window at [Address redacted], after midnight on [Date redacted]. The screen will either be open or poorly mended. Lollipops provided. BYOB/Turtles.

Don’t jump. Push.

Speaking on behalf of the public, I’ve never been as terrified to have a gay man stuck in my eye.

A judge is a judge, but still a member of the LEGAL profession. And lawyers are to golf as flies are to shit. This judge has “crossed the beams” of law, golf, and batshit divorce. A Sta-Puft divorced golf-lawyer is going to pierce our dimension and fuck her shit up.

My grandmother always told me that when she died we could toss her in the river. She believed in an afterlife where the disposal of her remains wasn’t important. We opted for a vault with the flat rather than domed lid (a domed vault allegedly lasts a generation longer before collapsing or being dug up for…

Dead Poets Society had a big impact on me too. I was 17, and not an iconic Oscar (TM) winning actress. Also, I wasn’t allowed to get tattoos. I was also less attractive and intimidating. My hair wasn’t as cool. I wasn’t really.... Well, OK, I wasn’t EVER, if you’ve gotta be totally accurate about it... I wasn’t…

Judging from that video it drives better than I do. That’s saying very little, but as I understand it, taking control of moving vehicles away from people like me could save tens of thousands of lives a year. For the moment, I live in a large metropolitan area with a subway system that saves me the inconvenience both…

Hate to tell you this, but there are plenty of people in this country who have never ordered from a menu that wasn’t on the wall above the line of cashiers. If you grew up both middle-class and educated, then yes, you’re right it should be no big deal. When people are the first [generation] in their family to get into…

It’s petit-bourgeois insecurity. Never mind that a Vanderbilt could walk into Lutece and send them to the liquor store for a bottle of Night Train, and lose no status, while if I walked into the same restaurant and ordered the “best” wine on the menu, I’d gain no status.

If I were you I’d just pick a region I like and stick to it. I’ve learned that for white wine I like wines that have a kind of mineral-lemony crispness. A lot of wines from the south of italy or greece have the qualities I like. So I look on the menu for stuff from that part of the world and I get it. For reds (which…