I’m not JAG or affiliated with the armed forces in any way (just a former lawyer who lives in Spain taking advantage of a country where I get seven weeks of vacation to spearfish!), but it’s a pretty big issue in my understanding: http://time.com/2861963/the-significance-of-bergdahls-washing-out-of-the-coast-guard/

I hear you. He was the agent of his suffering. The causal nexus was his act. But hearing the reports on the situation by his superiors upon his return and their recommendations to not prosecute were revealing. It wasn’t in bad faith in their view; this isn’t the eggshell case of a hothead who punched someone in bad…

Huh? Because that’s what they would have liked to charge her with, or what they bluffed with to ensure that anyone with half a brain would take a plea instead of roll the dice on a charge less probable of conviction but carrying a much higher sentence. This is a standard tactic for any prosecutor, military or…

As a non-practicing American lawyer who has lived in Europe nearly all his adult life and spent his formative years on studying international public law (including a public scrap with Justice Scalia), I find it troubling to equate her treatment with torture. I say this for all the reasons I’m sure we’ve all heard…

Dammit, it won’t let me link to her photo listing her “profession” as “elementary education graduate.”

“The show will feature women from each state competing against each other. He ended up dating contestant Maya Benberry. But broke up shortly after.”

It’s not fun unless they’re unsolicited.

Yeah, so, I realized when I was 19 that if I stopped smoking two packs a day I could literally go see my study-abroad girlfriend (now my wife and mother of my child after nearly 15 years) in Madrid once every 40-60 days. My close family member just dropped a few million on a small apartment in Dumbo and, in doing so,…

The best decisions surely are the ones you can never reverse: for you a vasectomy, for me going to law school paid with non-dischargable debt because you weren’t sure what to do with your actually pretty amazing degree from an Ivy League University with high honors in a highly paid field because you were in love with…

Actually, here in Spain, the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE, according to its Spanish acronym) decided to get rid of the Spanish letters (technically “digraphs”) “ll” and “ch” from the Spanish alphabet. Just up and axed ‘em!

People “who”, not people “that”.

I think you meant to write “English-speaking people”. I stopped at that error; I’m sure there was a lot of valuable, thoughtful commentary following that mistake.

Champing at the Bit is my favorite prop-comic troupe!

One day they’ll make it to the Super Bowel!

I wrote Milo Aukerman randomly to ask about deciding between his profession and his band. He wrote back and I ultimately still decided to go to law school. It worked out, but I’m still shocked my punk-rock hero took the time to respond to me.

Surely somewhere pining for those Halcion days when the Colts were relevant.

Here’s my issue: she should have known, but why did it get the traction it did compared to the deluge of shit that Trump said? Because it was a deluge.

Entirely agree. They’d rather be Berlusconi than Warren Buffet.