Seeing someone try to serve through injury is no fun

It’s actually not too onerous—many players enjoy it because it’s really just extra practice that’s competitive. Venus and Serena and long-time partners and generally have no problem playing or not playing when it suits them. When either one of them is wrangling with an injury (more recently Venus in dealing with her…

It’s the best call not to play around with injuries. I don’t think it has that much impact, though, since that part of the draw was pretty brutal already. Sharapova still has a steep uphill battle to the title. I’d take any of those other players over her, even dodgy Angelique Kerber.

I’ll use the G-2 if there’s no alternative but it’s just ok. The Jetstream is definitely better—smoother and more consistent with not as much smearing.

Jetstream for the win. Preferably in blue.

Yeah, parts of SF are weird, but it’s actually a decent public transit city. Definitely better than Oakland (which is also doable).

Discretion is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you’re right in practice. On the other hand, discretion also gives judges the ability to mitigate when appropriate and there are judges that rely on that to counter the sentencing disparities among non-white defendants, poor defendants, etc. And that discretion also…

I’m not sure I’d characterize it as arbitrary. Certain offenses (usually a handful of violent offenses) in combination with particular ages by statute will trigger moving it to adult court. In some jurisdictions, the defendant can petition to have it moved back to juvenile. Some states don’t have that option—the…

Yeah as soon as I read that headline, I thought, that’s gotta be an armed robbery and it bumped it up to an adult offense. I don’t know if Georgia has discretion (some states don’t) but that’s probably a good case for throwing back to juvenile court.

My salon sends out emails with great instructions on preparing for the appointment. That’s really helpful so everyone is on the same page.

if they fuck up a cut, you’re stuck with that length for a while

Yeah, I think people are calling that out more, especially given the price tag to mass incarceration.

The thing is, it doesn’t have to be like this. We need more progressive, reform-minded DAs to change the culture of prosecutor offices. And they’re elected officials so more of us need to care about voting in those down-ballot races. There are a few DAs out there trying to balance public safety with reform so…

Oh wow, that’s hardcore. Is doing laundry that loud?

That’s my thing, go through the building management if knocking on the door seems uncomfortably confrontational. It would have to be habitual, defiant, and egregious before I called the cops and that’s assuming the building wouldn’t address it.

I first watched a few season 2 episodes before I was able to go back and watch the first season. Luckily it’s the kind of show that’s still compelling even if you know what the character development is building to. Sometimes I like that because the comparison of how a show got from point A to point B is fascinating.…

And isn’t it essentially one maybe two city blocks? That’s like saying the Herald Square Macys in New York is a neighborhood.

There are several schools of thought for measuring that impact but generally you do it by using specific data points over time and across a range of identified factors (offense, criminal history, judge if you can get it, etc.).

Improper disparity is one of the biggest priorities that sentencing commissions deal with no matter what the source, especially when quantifying the impact of discretion. The goal really is to get disparity down to an insignificant statistical factor because those things (gender, socioeconomic status, geography race,…

Sentencing systems are designed to reduce improper disparity to the greatest extent possible. Reporting that level of an entrenched racial disparity in that wide a data set is not minor—especially one that increases as the discretion increases. That’s something the kind of thing sentencing commissions take very…