that’s a great story! I just looked it up and he served while he was actually mayor, which makes it even crazier.

I read that the defendent’s attorney stated before jury selection that they would not be picking him. Most lawyers are going to be pretty scared of a former Constitutional Law Professor gumming up the works, plus as you stated, it would be super distracting for everyone to have Obama there.

I mean, the diabetic prisoners are still prisoners, so they could also be sex predators, murderers, rapists etc. We don’t know. It looks like there are tons of different prisoners with different physical medical needs in addition to the prisoners requiring mental health care.

I don’t think you are correct. It appears to be a normal federal prison with a larger than normal medical care facility for prisoners who have physical or mental health needs. Many of the prisoners are diabetic or sex offenders.

There was the story last year that he listens to music on headphones while having sex and is generally bad at sex.

ha! that’s the one I use. I was hoping there was an easier version out there! thank you for responding.

Care to share this recipe?

Sure, but his rationale for asking for $10m is that summer blockbusters cost $150m. This is a guy making a movie about himself. No talent budget, special effects, etc. I wish him the best but he doesn’t seem remotely in touch with what it means to make a documentary. 

No. He could do it for a couple hundred thousand easily. Digital cameras have made documentary films incredibly cheap to make. The most expensive documentary ever made was Planet Earth ($25m) and that had 11 episodes and six teams of filmmakers working around the globe.

Which school?

One of the articles linked to in this piece (published Aug 2016) says that she is 21, or was 21 when she met Ethan in 2013. It’s unclear which they meant based on the wording of the piece.

Step in when you see this behavior occurring. Speak up when you hear other guys saying shitty things about women. Feeling embarrassed in front of your peers means something to guys like this.

The Nanny meant to much to me as a young Jewish kid (and did you know that the concept was sold all over the world and lead to a TON of very similar shows in other countries) but, oh my god my boss is just like her with the…

I assume it was. It helps make sure Conde gets good press by being proactive instead of weeks of women coming out with stories about being harassed by him. I know plenty of women have already done so, but it seems like the news cycle is paying attention right now. A former model friend of mine stood up to him when she…

I don’t see the value in it for my own life (I’m reform/atheist at best) but as per my comment, the people who find it important do so because they consider it to contain the wisdom of life itself and the act of studying torah is like, the best thing one can do. I do not agree that I was “preaching.”

The Jewish emphasis on education is one of the core principles of our religion. In Christianity, the closest you get to God is accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord & savior. In Judaism, it is by studying Torah and the related texts, since they are considered to contain the wisdom of life itself. It doesn’t have…

Israeli Mikvahs are run by the orthodox community, so they are not a place that less observant Israeli women necessarily feel comfortable going to either. There are some in the US (and I assume in other countries) that are more of a spiritual experience than a strictly letter-of-the-law experience that you had.

As a woman, it’s pretty condescending to be told that I am not “always powerless.” I mean...I was aware. I can assure you I have set boundaries (“please don’t touch me”) and they have been ignored. I don’t need someone to explain to me how to do that. I am an adult, but I also understood that when I was a teen who was…

No, it’s fully apocryphal. Hasidic men wear a white cotton undergarment that is sort of shaped like a poncho with a hole for the head. It’s the source of the rumor.

Arlington. My favorite is Lighthouse Tofu in Annandale for Korean.