This restaurant sounds awful, but champagne and fried chicken is awesome. Also dry Mosel riesling and fried chicken. Really any white wine with acidity and minerality, and anything dry.

Can you turn the car? Or is it one perfectly straight road with no turns?

There's corporal punishment, and then there's beating the shit out of your kids. If you're missing family events or school, that's not a spanking. That's just abuse.

Am I the only person who got spanked, but not beat?

We're talking about an $800,000 house here. Poverty and access to healthcare have fuck-all to do with this woman. If there're cultural forces at play, it's entitled rich assholes thinking that because they're rich they deserve to have everything they want.

Poverty and access to healthcare are nonetheless important…

Places the 6th Amendment right to counsel applies: Court.

Places the 6th Amendment right to counsel doesn't apply: Radio shows.

I don't know off the top of my head whether New Jersey is a Model Rules or a Canons state, but which rule or canon requires lawyers to go on the radio and lie about the client's case?

I'm going to give you a hint. The answer is none of them.

In fact, getting the tape out earlier and negotiating a one year suspension would have served Rice's interests infinitely better than what this guy did.

It is his job to defend Ray Rice. It is not his job to lie about the evidence to the public or even to the court. This goes way beyond his ethical duties to his client.

He has a duty of loyalty to Rice. He can't do anything to hurt Rice. He couldn't, e.g., go on the radio and say "My client is a son of a bitch. He…

A common symptom of concussions is amnesia. Janay probably didn't form any true memories of anything immediately before the attack, or after waking up. Assuming Ray doesn't do this often, she probably did think she provoked him, or that the circumstances of the attack were other than what they are. By now, she…

Yes, I know Voltaire was one of the people responsible for propagating the myth. I don't know why you want me to buy his book.

First Night was made up. It wasn't a real thing. It certainly wasn't LAW.