If I’m getting out of my car I make sure it’s in neutral with the e-brake pulled.

I’ve known enough addicts that I would bet what little I own that this is the case. Everyone who’s only known my brother when he’s clean thinks he’s just the nicest and most friendly guy, and he is. Everyone who’s known him when he’s using knows what a nasty sonofabitch he can be, to the point where family members…

Yeah, there’s who I want backing me up as a not drug-and-alcohol addled violent creep: Mickey fucking Rourke!!

On the one hand, given our nation’s surplus of underemployed JDs/lawyers, you’d think legal consultants would be easy to come by on the cheap. On the other hand, this is digital media we’re talking about, and everyone’s nervous about making this profitable, so it makes sense that they’re not indulging in consultants.

Because it’s a meaningless gesture of trust on his part. Community property laws don’t entitle her to half of his net worth. Everything he acquired before the marriage is separate property, still all his (unless he commingled, which I can’t imagine his business manager was dumb enough to do at a significant level),…