No; just pointing out that this was the type of comment to lead to a tour down the rabbithole of identity politics and persecution. Like the posturing leading up to the Women’s March, we on the left can’t get out of our own way to constantly claim who has it worst. When anyone leaves a comment or anecdote about what…

When we first moved here, 2002, I worked in NoVa. I had a view of downtown, and sneakers in my office along with some bottled water and long shelf life food. Later, I started working directly beside the FBI. There was a special film on the glass that was supposed to be blast resistant, which I thought cute. I didn’t…

Came for the race Olympiad; not disappointed.

I think we’re having a semantics issue. A recent law grad does not usually exceed $140k unless s/he works in Biglaw or at a high paying tech or other gig (but the starting salary at Biglaw in NYC, DC, CA, etc. is $180k at most of the AmLaw 100). I know hundreds of law grads, because I know hundreds of lawyers. The…

Well, yeah. Between lawyers at the firms where I have worked, who I’ve done deals with/opposite, clients, former classmates, interviewers, interviewees as students and laterals (I did on campus recruiting for a decade), former colleagues, friends, friends of spouse, spouses of friends, etc. etc...

The vast majority of law grads I know, and there are hundreds, make well over 6 figures. And in a major metropolitan area, unless you are a public defender or first to third year associate at a small firm, you will also make over 6 figures. If you are in house in a public company, at almost any level of the legal…

I do, I also know how many there are and how many lawyers are churned out annually. To be clear, this study from Earnest should report it much, much worse in order to dissuade people from the law because it is not an economically or psychologically wise decision to all but the best-credentialed and luckiest few, but…

And in 2007, the starting salary at biglaw firms was $160k (dropped in 2008 with the market drop), so even then there was a wide swath, but the website does not say first year attorneys. It’s the self reported earnings of the respondents in Earnest’s survey. Biglaw in NYC/CA/DC went to $125k in 2000.

I disagree. First year biglaw salaries in major metropolitan legal markets are higher than this number, so if you’re looking at the people using that website, and at a range of people (not just one year out of school), you’re going to have a lot of thumbs on the scale. Lawyer pay surveys frequently are sent out by bar…

I don’t live and die by the Property Brothers, but HGTV is my go-to background TV station, so I will probably end up watching this. I like what the Property Brothers end up doing, I think they are better TV personalities than most, and I’d rather watch hours of them or most other HGTV programming than 10 seconds of…

Yeah - handle this fragile thing that has a good chance of going to the bathroom while you hold it or crying. Um... no? I’ll play with your toddler, I’ll treat your 8 year old like a little prince, I’ll try to be the coolest person to your pre-teen. But the babies hold so little sway. It’s as if these people have…

I’ve come to believe that I don’t think that some people who say that are trying to be obnoxious; I think they are speaking from experience. OR that they are speaking from the misguided view that they felt like you once when they were younger, but then changed their minds. There’s a difference in someone who doesn’t…

Jealous of the Radiohead. We are old enough to have gone to far better concerts that this corporate nonsense.

Here’s the thing... I’ve been blessed with fairly sizable closet space since the 90s. I still HAVE some of these clothes. The huge skirt thing... I have mine from 10 years ago. The paper thin flower sundress - 1995, I am here for you!

This is possibly MORE shameful than Kokomo: The Escape Club. Did I know the words to Shake for the Sheik, the follow-up single? Yes.

Those were my GOOD mixtapes. The high school and college ones. I still have those in the basement. I wrote the songlist in multi-colored gel pens. And that mixtape needed a cool name.

I’m only HALF ashamed to say that Kokomo was my jam in fifth grade. I used to make mix tapes of songs I recorded off the radio. As in, I’d hear a song I liked on the radio, then rush to put the tape in and record. So a lot of beginnings of songs were missing, or I would just get a lot of the Top 40. Also, I’d record…

I’ll play Devil’s Advocate. 1. I doubt Louis CK wrote the sketch - the hosts don’t write the sketches generally, so blaming Louis CK seems overboard. Blame the SNL writer. 2. A clown performing for one person is where the similarity ends. Honest question... how long do we wait before someone can have a joke or bit…

not sure where your horror at this comes from...? I don’t think it was hilarious, nor outrageous, and I know some people who essentially teach their kids this exact message, though probably they don’t get as pointed about it. It’s certainly not as touchy feely as a prime time sitcom, but it’s not an awful lesson? It’s…

It is literally an ill-fitting table cloth tied at the neck so it doesn’t fall to the floor. Ghastly and the height of unflattering.