I agree 100% with everything you said, and I just wanted to add that that implicit expectation of success can also be very tough for a lot of kids...I spent most of high school battling severe anxiety because I was constantly terrified that I wouldn’t “measure up” or be “good enough”...accepting limitations, and…

The way that the “end of discriminatory enforcement, empty out the prisons” argument was used to justify this decision has always bugged me. I’ve got no issue with legalized weed, but selling it with the idea that it would improve the criminal justice system when there was no actual effort to do so was a complete…

You understand that comment is second (if not third) hand, right? I doubt he used those exact words. Given that she had a history of suicide attempts, it makes sense that he might have thought that was her ultimate intent. Also, you’re an asshole.

That’s it exactly—had this involved alcohol, which is legal, I doubt there would have been as much resistance to testing their child’s blood in order to, you know, save its life. She chose covering her ass over protecting her child—case closed IMO.

The standard is “gross negligence,” which is akin to recklessness

Full opinion: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…

But, in the words of Jed Bartlett (I’ve been re-watching The West Wing), “The Constitution doesn’t say anything about the separation of religion and politics.”

You mean, what if you have to live like all of humanity has lived for its entire existence before a decade ago?

So when Donald Trump intimidates judges, it’s bad, but this is good?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the judge follow the female probation officer’s recommendation? How is that not “listen[ing] to women”?

Not taking sides on Depp/Heard but did want to include the rest of TMZ article:

You must read Rolling Stone.

What I am suggesting is that we stop fetishizing the Hollywood wage gap narrative as a kind of everywoman story, in which some badass queens slay the patriarchy and then we can do it too.

No, I’m not saying I don’t believe her. I have no reason to think that she fabricated those statements of her supervisor. However, the sexist statements from her supervisor do not automatically mean that NYU, eighteen months later, relied upon those statements, or her complaints thereabout, as reason for terminating…

But a year and a half, with nothing else happening in between? Again, not saying that I don’t believe her, but I find it hard to believe that nothing else transpired for eighteen months.

It seems unlikely that she was terminated for complaining a year and a half after making the complaints...not saying that what she alleges didn’t happen, but I suspect there’s more to this story (especially since all links just go to the Daily News, none to the actual suit).

And what’s truly insufferable about it is that the younger generation truly believes that, in 30 or 40 (oh so short) years, they won’t have turned into the very old people they were so hard on. Do unto others...

I mean, God, what was the point of even having this kid in the first place if I can’t use it for unlimited publicity?

I have to say, while I think most of the article is ridiculous, that was the one good piece of advice, except for the word “cheery.” I can’t imagine anything getting under Trump’s skin more than a woman ignoring him, especially a woman he doesn’t want to sleep with. So Hillary, for my unsolicited two cents that you…

Clinton: the other white meat