I do agree with your basic point. The system is flawed. We should fix it. We punish the poor and put strains on parent/child relationships. I don’t think anyone involved has that goal in mind. Except some of the legislators. But it’s happening.

It’s amusing that you would think she might somehow pick up “stare decisis” somewhere.

Is that from the Palin Ipsum generator, or are you that fluent in...her? Your just-adept-enough sprinkling of legalese makes me suspect the latter, in which case I bow to you because you’re some kind of insane genius.

I think maybe a personal essay isn’t the best way to shed light on the problem. Personal essays can be very powerful but they aren’t the only way to bring light to a topic. And they can even be counter-productive if the goal is to really start a conversation. An investigative piece interviewing lots of parents and…

Can Tina Fey actually have a show instead of Palin?

Given her extensive background in and experience with the law, I’m sure this will do for jurisprudence what Manimal did for biology.

This is good because it will lead to an inevitable Tina Fey SNL cameo.

My vote is for “The Half-Terminator”

I think she’s just doing this to keep her drunken family out of jail. Every time they get arrested, they’ll appear before Mom and she’ll blame Obama for her kid getting drunk and beating his girlfriend, or her husband getting into a bar fight.

Nolo contedre—my friends and even my detractors!—that’s what it is. Make no mistake, we’d love a verdict that allows for—look! Every American is tired of the liberal—the conservative—the gun-toting redbloodeds, like a Muslim would. The rapid advance of Islamic, call it what it is. That’s why, for a verdict that I have…

Unfortunately, when she read that a pilot will be shot first, she took a shotgun down to the airport with steely determination and got immediately arrested.

He’s not stupid at all. I would venture to say this has made him a millionaire. He makes tons of money giving talks, selling books pumping snake oil products. Think about that one. He is making money off the death and disease other people get because of him.

I came here to unleash my rage because the antivaccination movement is spreading all over, but you just cooly cut the rage shit and just said it like it is.

No! It’s directly linked to sales of Sony Playstations!

Oh dear sweet 6lb 8oz baby Jesus. I want to scream. Why does anyone, *ANYONE* entertain this stance and this asshole’s opinion on anything? I would not take directions out of a paper bag from him. I bet $$ that one of my ‘faves’ is going to be problematic after this movie comes out.

He also gave kids probably medically unnecessary spinal taps and colonoscopies for his bullshit study, because if you’re going to be an unethical jackass, you might as well go that extra mile.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. This is going to make family dinners more fun :/

Andy Warhol forgot to tell us that when we buy our fifteen minutes of fame, other people have to die to pay for it. These doctors consumed by the overwhelming desire to be brand-name “personalities” — they make a drunken surgeon look like one of the gems of the human race.