Counter-point: q-tips feel amazing. 

Conflating the incredibly hard capital habeas work done by Reed’s lawyers with whatever it is Lee Merritt is doing is insulting. 

Correct. I can promise you the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals doesn’t give a shit what Kim Kardashian thinks. The credit goes to Bryce Benjet and other lawyers who did the heavy lifting here. 

You’re still working off the negative karma Ryan Zimmerman brought on by resurrecting his failing career with PEDs. 

You all desperately want this to be a story. Reporters also want this to be a story because there’s nothing writers like writing about more than themselves. They yearn to be the story.

Yes, Houston is notorious for its ... investment bankers?

Lazy reporters wrote story after story parroting each other in their belief the Astros had violated some great moral rule in trading for a baseball player who was accused of a crime. One of the people alleged to have violated that great moral rule was salty over the criticism and shot back at it a year later when the…

Gerrit Cole is not the Astros’ third starter. 

This is only a fact in fake Texas lawyer Lee Merritt’s world. 

As for #1 and #2, you do realize Brown was killed in a parking lot of a separate apartment complex across town, right? 

And if it was, there’s a pretty decent chance his criminal trial testimony could be introduced in the civil trial now that he’s “unavailable” through death. 

She will serve 5 years flat before first parole eligibility. 

The irony in this comment is so rich. 

Lafayette is the flagship campus of the University of Louisiana. 

This story is not as interesting as you think it is. 

This quote should suggest to you that perhaps Patrick’s headline here is a misleading depiction of the allegation. 

Finally. I was worried that everyone was as confused about the point as Libby Watson. 

Not really true and entirely organization-dependent. The Mets in particular use Brooklyn for higher-level prospects. When I interned in the front office, going from Brooklyn to Savannah was in almost every case a demotion. 

The reality is that this incredibly unsophisticated blogger should stop giving legal advice on the Internet. 

What if I told you that society and the economy benefit from young people spending their money on other things. Like, for instance, buying homes, or raising functional children?