“the court is not to be subject to outside influence.”

Your father was a saint!

Their friends live in the Caiman Islands.

Not the mention the entire function of amicus briefs. Amici, whatever.

 Yeah, your comment is utter bullshit. 

“the point of court hearings is to allow both sides to present their arguments in the hope of influencing the court in its decision(s)”

That’s a really interesting question. I don’t honestly know the answer to that, and I’d really like to. I suspect it’s probably not a simple matter, at least in some respects.

It is disgusting cash grab. 

Nah, you were fine. Every day is Splinter’s writers, especially this one, “indulging their worst, most insufferable selves.” They forget that not everyone is living that “overpaid Brooklyn blogger” lifestyle where you have to hate everything that anyone likes and preach that voting is bad because it’s not magic.

If you had done your research you might have found out why.

Dude (or dudette) has literally the best failure of comment-username synergy I’ve seen in a long time.

...of course, I’m going to take it a little personally, as I teach Rhet/Comp for a living, and Logos/Pathos/Ethos are the foundational qualities of any salient argument.

This person set themselves up to made to look a…

You’re purposefully putting on blinders and ignoring the inevitable conclusion to what you are saying. So we’ll start from the beginning and I’ll put asterisks around the parts you are refusing to acknowledge so you don’t miss it.

I really hope someone from the Root utterly tears this article apart, because this is a great example of white privilege.

I do hate that the answer is always “yes, tip” even in cases where the person is making an actual wage with benefits. At some point, we do want to discourage tipping culture because it’s shitty. 

Dude, read the fucking article. The writer broke it down pretty clearly how this mocks disabled people in general.

he constantly whines

So you think people aren’t harmed when someone sends them explosive devices in the mail?

Forgot to add a sense of gravity to my comment: a sitting president is calling, from the White House, for the victim of an attempted bombing to be locked up for reasons.

the Lena Dunham everything-is-sexist-and-revolves-around-me kind, not a legitimate one.

Pretty racist to describe a black president as “not getting it”.