Both my graduate school roommates were in history and neither completed their PhD (both did obtain their masters as part of the qualifications toward the doctorate), which didn't hurt the one as he went to seminary, but did limit the prospects of the other as he went to work for the SSRC, most, if not all, of whose…

Ellen won $3,000 - she had $12,200 vs. $9,600 for Luke with one full category remaining, so this bet size would have put her behind if she had missed. A wager of half that size would have given her a comfortable edge if correct without the risk of losing the lead on the DD.

He also has the kind of taste that has prompted Architectural Digest to feature his abodes.

In the case of Employment Division v. Smith (1990), "Justice Scalia reasoned that to allow religious objectors to opt out of generally applicable laws would, quoting an 1878 Supreme Court precedent, 'make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect . . . permit every…

In the May 7 2015 New York Review of Books David Cole wrote an article examining some of the history of religious exemptions to federal laws and whether such exemptions allow for discrimination, which the Supreme Court in Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) "summarily rejected…, asserting that the state’s…

Thanks for that clarification.

The coal walking business made recent news when 30 or so participants at Robbins' "Unleash the Power Within" seminar suffered minor burns, which sounds like an indictment but is apparently not unexpected, especially if most of the claimed 7000 participants actually went through it.

The things he talks about are an effective means of developing some good emotional and physical well-being, and I feel it's a waste of time to promote it as a way to make money.

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Leathery old spaghetti Western legend Lee Van Cleef, wearing a gigantic earring for some reason, shows up a few times in an ill-defined mercenary role and then announces that he’s going on vacation immediately before the climax.

…slow, calculative yet tactful and quiet.

Especially annoying considering how Trebek went out of his way to remind us that Ken was not just a lowly law clerk like Ellen but a real, true-to-life lawyer!

Pence can be as devoutly religious as he wants on his own time; that fucker swore an oath to support both the U.S. and Indiana constitutions, both of which call for strong separations of church and state, and neither of which allow for selective rights or discriminations against any of its citizens.

That was a super weird insert shot, especially the way they tried to integrate it into normal gameplay, and if the plug actually was part of the game, then again it was super weird the way they edited it to make it look like an insert.

Based on Ken's pussyfooted DD wagers was fully expecting that he'd wager just enough to stay ahead of Sue or just a little more to top Ellen's pre-wager score, so when his incorrect response and ridiculously large and nonsensical FJ wager were revealed, I was overjoyed knowing that the former high-school cross-country…

The timing might be a little off, considering MM did her best work in the first two seasons, but she is certainly as deserving as FL.

Holy crap how have I not heard of this film which has at least three actors I always enjoy and was directed by Kelly Reichardt?

I get the feeling Benn was originally "Ben" until he learned to talk at which point others could only address him as "Bennnnn" which starts out as his name and ends with an exasperated nasal humming through clenched teeth, and Ben figured, in an early example of his "humor", that he would change his name to reflect…

Thanks for the link, and I used to use it too, but for me it seems to suffer from the same delay that keeps the new WoT from showing up on the other pages in a timely manner.

American Ultra showed he can go quite dark if he wants, and is more than capable of being scary, which makes me think he'd be very effective in something like Natural Born Killers.