Also, Maryann should be more concerned about her church’s record of molestation.

I think that may vary from state to state. In Hawaii (where I’m licensed) practicing law without a license is a misdemeanor, so theoretically the police could arrest someone for it. I’m far too lazy to look up the Maryland statute on this, though.

I’m not a courtroom lawyer but I’m 99% sure cops don’t have the jurisdiction to make sure someone is a really a lawyer in court. That’s the court’s job and only the court’s job. The cop is there for security and to bring criminal defendants in and out of custody. This cop should 100% be fired but I’m sure he won’t be.

Point of contention: parents don’t necessarily pay to get unqualified kids in. They pay to guarantee admission for their child who is technically qualified but is in no way guaranteed admission. Ivy League schools and similar universities rejects thousands of extremely qualified kids every year. They paid to remove…

Oh lord, literally my first reaction was that every ‘midlife crisis’ I’ve seen a woman go through involved realising she’d married a fuckwit.

I always thought a woman's mid-life crisis was when a woman realizes she does 90% of the housework and childcare and divorces her husband's who "never saw that coming." 

“2,155 girls took the test in 2018, compared with just 379 who took it in 2016. But not only are more girls taking the exam, they’re doing well on it, too: In 2018, 1,266 girls passed the test, compared with 177 who passed in 2016.”

I’m glad more women will have the opportunity of having their jobs done for a fraction of the cost by folks in India.

Stuck at sea....with people....and norovirus....and crazy waves....and - NOPE. NO CRUISES FOR ME EVER THANKS

Booze+Bad Seas=Vomit

Stuck at sea with some 800 odd other people...

This is going to sound off-tangent, but I blame the rise of corporations. Conglomerates now rule the western world. Politicians are a priesthood who worship and make sacrifices to them. They go into ‘public office’ specifically to help transfer ever more control and power to multinationals.

I’ve gone through the Fyre docs, every Thernos doc, every Madoff and 2008 financial crisis doc and I need MORE!

I am eating up E V E R Y T H I N G on this.  It’s like Fyre Festival x1000.  By far, the book is the absolute best out of everything.  I liked the podcast a bit better than the HBO documentary.  I was hoping the documentary would have a little more background and more interviews w/ the people about the utter…

I prefer grifter myself

Shill, yes! See also: huckster - especially : one who sells or advertises something in an aggressive, dishonest, or annoying way 

Call me old-fashioned, but I find the word ‘influencer’ to be unnecessary when we already had the word ‘shill’, which was a perfectly good word for the exact same thing.

Same. She didn’t want to go, her parents forced her to go because they didn’t and thought she should, it’s hard to go against your parents when they control you financially, and now she’s humiliated on a global scale for something she didn’t want to be part of in the first place. She’s also catching all the vitriol…

I teach students about Jade’s age and I have a small amount of sympathy for her. The giant sh!tstorm is about to break on her head and all the fiction of poise and control that intagram and youtube provide--that sealed environment that lets you make this simulacrum of a life is about to go all away. I’m not really…