Honestly, this is how I have to dress in my office in Madrid in the winter. I come back after running 15k during my siesta break. I’m a red-faced foreigner sweating even as it’s -2 outside. My secretary is cold as soon as it hits 80F.

When I was still in undergrad and law school I would bring wheels of cheeses and jamón de bellota back with me (because at the time there weren’t enough FDA inspectors to approve the best ham) after visiting my girlfriend (now wife). And Deva absinthe. /shudder

I live in Madrid and was at lunch for the end of the match (two-hour lunches in Spain, motherfuckers!). I absolutely love the energy and adoration that the Spanish have for their native son. The television announcers don’t even attempt to be neutral. In the restaurant where I was eating, everyone was cheering,…

I really wish people knew how hard it is for alcoholics to stay sober. It’s a dangerous substance that’s ubiquitous and normalized. I wish I had never had a drink in my life. I’m not a mess, but it’s a thing, and I wish it wasn’t. You can go for years without it insinuating itself in your life through the most benign…

I honestly think that Scalia was capable of separating those types of circumstances from his decisions. And I think his colleagues on the bench would have pressured him to recuse himself had they thought otherwise. To be honest I’m not really knowledgeable about the case itself. My ConLaw professor was his clerk (and…

No problem, feel free to write me if you want any tips or whatever. The whole area down by the Manzanares River where the Calderón is located has been renovated. If you walk north from the stadium along the river you’ll pass the Royal Palace on the right (west) with gardens below it (and also the Almudena Cathedral. I…

Oh, I’m terrified; don’t worry about me thinking the future is bright. You’re talking to a guy who publicly got into it with Justice Scalia about his dissent in Roper v. Simmons (juvenile death penalty). His nominee is going to make Scalia (whose opinions and dissents I respect given that he argues them convincingly…

Absolutely. I’ve also lived and worked in Barcelona, loved it there. I’d put on board shorts under my suit and head to the beach for my two-hour break, have a beer and go back to my law firm at four. I’ve lived in Madrid for a decade now (wife and kid). It’s a great city and there is a ton to do both in the city…

You understand that Bill Clinton, a Democrat, exacerbated mass incarceration, right? I'm not a Republican. Hell, I don't even live in the US anymore (Madrid), but your rage is bizarre and some of it is based on counterfactual circumstances:

There’s no perfect solution guys; let’s opt for the worst alternative!

This is actually from the Mayweather-McGregor bout, right?

QED, motherfucker!

I graduated from a top-ten law school and fled to Madrid immediately, where I work in a legal context, but am not a lawyer. A tenth of the pay (Income Based Repayment Plan is based on AGI, and since that’s zero after applying the Foregn-Earned Income Exclusion, I pay zero in loans... although I’ll need to save up for…

I spent my teenage years in SLC reading the Trib; they’re not that clever.

As a non-practicing lawyer, this was the part that bothered me most: “compromised by members of her family.” That word doesn’t mean what you think it means, Salt Lake Trib.

So, without reading the piece, how does Billy blame Cristiano?

And he’s a rapist! Imagine what a non-rapen person could do! What a world!

Which also happens to be the number-one seller among adults.

Go pound chowdah.

California wasn’t a state when the Electoral College was agreed.