Please could someone please fill me in on what this means -- a quote from the NY Times obit??

For all the people who do not wash your legs, what about other things, like your arms and your back? It seems like the same “eh, it’s not a particularly stinky area, and soapy water is running over it anyway” reasoning would apply.

We learned this in swimming lessons in the 80s. Trying this once -- jumping in the pool or lake with clothes on -- will quickly show you the other big benefit of this technique. Once your clothes are wet, they are very heavy, so floating or treading water becomes difficult and tiring even if it usually is easy for…

I want to, a lot. I’m an attorney, so my chances of getting seated are pretty low. But when I was in college, I interned for a judge who had shown up for jury duty assuming he would get dismissed, but they picked him and he served on the jury (as foreperson). So his story gives me hope of getting to do it someday.

The section you quoted says exactly that. The husband isn’t alleged to have a financial interest in Sony, but in his law firm which might have a financial interest in Sony. So the last part of that section is the relevant part, the part that says it applies if there’s an interest that could be “substantially…

A firm that big probably has represented most of the Fortune 500 companies in some capacity at some point. It would be a completely unworkable and unreasonable standard for this judge to have to recuse herself from any case involving any corporation that her husband’s firm had ever represented. She probably wouldn’t…

As feminists, we are very ON IT — rightly and productively — when it comes to calling out the warping effect, and even damaging effect, that images of women can have on us all. Calling out photo-shopping, for example. But when it comes to images of women in porn, the desire to be sex-positive and avoid anything that…

On top of everything else, the waste of a transplanted heart is brutal. I know someone who received a transplant, and his feeling of gratitude is matched only by his immense sense of responsibility to deserve it and take care of it. He is acutely aware that not only did someone have to die for him to live, but many…

The parts she skipped over are so telling.

Yes! The gray change is not the change that is throwing me. It’s the darkness. He’s giving us sort of a

This is not a cause that matters to him...it’s as simple as that...

As long as we’re talking about this (wonderful) years-old thing, is it a good time for me to tell you all that my mind-grapes have made up a “Call the Midwife” version of this song that I can’t even help hearing every damn time?

I find these especially convenient because unlike the various pen options, with this you buy one box that has a whole bunch of individually-wrapped wipes, and then you can spread them around in all bags, car, desk drawers, and wherever else you might need it. And the individual packaging also means it won’t dry out…

I find these especially convenient because unlike the various pen options, with this you buy one box that has a…

Hillbot to Hillbot, I’m not so sure it’s a bullshit question. If it were a male opponent he was up against, at what point would he concede and say, yep, I’ve been beat fair and square, see ya? If he stays (or has already stayed) in the race against Hillary any longer than he would have against a male opponent, it…

And in the immediately preceding tweet, she says Cheryl sells these, and provides an email address and price info. So, like, she’s advertising her house manager’s side business, not exactly giving us a peek into her personal secret stash.

This is all true. My first experience with a smart washer was at a friend’s parents’ lakehouse. They were nice enough to let a bunch of us use it for the weekend, so on Sunday morning, we thought we’d be good guests and do a quick wash of our sheets and towels before we left. Cut to that afternoon, leaving literally…

No, one summer interning at a US Attorney’s office was enough to send me in another direction. I have a lot of respect for people who try to do that job in a responsible way, but I decided I wasn’t comfortable being a cog in that particular machine.

I was in law school during the OJ trial, and I was planning to be a prosecutor. I think that made my mom especially sensitive and sympathetic to Marcia Clark and everything that came down on her in such a personal way during the trial. So when the trial was over, my mom sent her a letter saying, basically, good try,…

I think that episode is the best of the whole series (I mean, everyone thinks that, right? I hope it’s established fact.), and that scene is one of the main reasons.

Lawyer here, and daughter of two elderly parents in failing health. Strongly second your encouragement.