Yep, blocking traffic is so fucking awesome. What I, as a poor black man, love the most is being late for work because people shut the buses down.

I was walking down Vine in Hollywood, on my way to Trader Joe’s after a long sweaty day working at a DV shelter in the Valley. I had to wear a back brace because I have scoliosis that was never addressed because I only had insurance on and off as a child. I was painfully aware of how horrible I looked, in pain,…

That gatekeeper notion would be a real a-ha moment for a lot of people, I bet.

For real. It’s not really “cave man” behavior when some dick your wife dated for 3 minutes over 15 years ago is following you and your wife around a party winking and leering and you want to punch him in the face. Any normal human, male or female, would want to punch him in the face.

They don’t need the money or the exposure. Should they be leaping at the chance to spend several days in close quarters with a Stepford wife religious fanatic? Team Olsen twins!

“However, Dr. Click was not entitled to interfere with the rights of others, to confront members of law enforcement or to encourage potential physical intimidation against a student.”

It’s a little more than “not exactly what happened.”

I don’t understand... So she asked a judge to dissolve a legally binding contract based on rumors that this guy is abusive? Did she first prove in court that this guy abused her?

This actually isn’t completely accurate. The Contract Clause was mainly implemented to prevent states from nullifying the contracts (usually of powerful individuals) via legislation, a practice known as “private relief.” Also, prior to the ratification of the Constitution (i.e. under the Articles of Confederation)…

Yup. If it were an adjudicated fact that he’d abused her, we’re probably having a different conversation, but as it stands an otherwise valid contract can’t be dissolved by one party’s allegation. NB I have no reason to, and do not, disbelieve Kesha’s story, but sometimes the law drives a runaway train to Stupidville…

Right? This article presents a picture of this case as one where contract law and criminal law somehow come head to head. But obviously that’s not the case, this was a case regarding the contract. As far as I’m aware, and I’m not all that aware, there isn’t a criminal case at all. Now you can find fault with the…

Uh, not a U.S. Supreme Court judge. A New York state judge. New York state trial courts are called “Supreme Courts” (even though they are actually the lowest courts in NY, not the highest as you might think given the word “Supreme”).

The longest it’s ever taken to appoint a new justice is 125 days. Obama has 341 before he leaves office. The Republicans will damage their credibility beyond repair if they try to block a nominee for that long.

Also .the Grand Canyon is part of the Grand Canyon National Park, there is also the Grand Canyon - Parashant National Monument which is a giant area of land adjacent to the Grand Canyon.

No whining. This is exactly what you get when you allow two private political clubs to dominate the election process.

I’m an actual political scientist and let me say this: Our electoral system is way fucked up.

I have a harder and harder time subscribing to the electability argument for Hillary when once again she’s had everything cleared for her and finds herself struggling to get out of the primaries.

I’m an ardent Berner but I have no doubts that the DNC and Democratic establishment will do whatever they have to in order to prevent a Sanders nomination.

While I don’t dig the clear Bernie bias in the following Paste article (nor in this Jezebel article either...”the excellent campaign”?), I did find the q&a on the history and relative lack of importance of superdelegates to be informative: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/…

Yay Bernie! I have to admit, I’m pretty excited to see a non-Christian doing so well. As a secular person, I get very tired of presidential candidates having to pass some kind of “churchiness” test.