Also, it is against the professional rules of conduct for another attorney to even speak to a party in a case if they are represented by an attorney. If any attorney ever tried to talk to my client without my permission and/or in my absence, it would NOT be okay.

As an attorney myself, this absolutely disgusts me. As a lawyer, the highest duty of loyalty I owe is to my client. For another attorney to try to breach that confidentiality is absolutely infuriating. If this is not deemed professional misconduct, what is? This is a slap on the wrist and nothing more. How could such…

Agreed. I do think that it is important to shame this kind of behavior, but the way it was done was way over the top. The reason I have more pity for Lewinski than Clinton however is that the White House also milked a sympathetic press in order to more heavily vilify her while trying to minimize the impact on Bill…

Eh, I dunno, I think the comparison their breaks down on a lot of levels. Also, Limbaugh directly benefits when someone lampoons him. He revels in it because he knows it makes it easier for him to paint himself as the oppressed minority to his audeince. Lewinski on the other hand was universally reviled and didn't…

For sure. Good point. But, like, so has Rush Limbaugh. And not just people making fun of him for the disgusting, hateful things he says, but personalities - with large audiences - making fun of him for his weight and pill addiction and stuff like that. Is that ethical? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't call the people who…

She was a 22-year-old intern. He was the Leader of the Free World. There's a power dynamic there that made her vulnerable and him culpable.

Me too! Like, at what point does expressing your negative opinion of a public figure cross the line into bullying? And is it a little different for Monica because she didn't ask to be famous?

I genuinely think this is a wonderful, positive project. But I also kind of wish that we could de-couple "beauty" and "women" just a tiny bit more (unless there's a companion video of men with disabilities who are also "raw beauty"). Beauty is great, but not everyone, of any gender or ability level or whatever, has to…

Then Big Media had better start pandering. We have this huge cultural legacy of stories that get sequeled, and prequeled, and remade, and remade, and remade. That's because they are good stories, but they almost always star white, cisgendered men. Which is incredibly invalidating for everyone else. Please, give us…

I appreciate this statement, but it also makes me sad that "let the men amongst our number preemptively respond" is perceived as a reasonable and acceptable means of persuasion. I get it, but it's sad.

This is absolutely amazing. Honestly, to me, less her forgiveness (that is her choice and she nor anyone else is under obligation to do that), but her asking him to do something good for the next 20 years. That is amazing: not only did this man not destroy her belief that there is good in people, but her belief that…

I'm a heroin addict living in Central Pennsylvania. Of course it's sold in ten dollar bags, most of the people in this particular subculture can't exactly produce the cash to buy bulk amounts, unless you plan on bagging it up and selling some of it anyways. Five dollar bags are garbage, stamped to shit usually. Ten…

I got a free Bogus DVD with a Pizza Hut pie once

We need to come up with a means of prohibiting upskirt photography, but this law was not it:

In California, she would not have had to adopt the child. The law is that people who intend to create a child via surrogacy are the legal parents of the child. In New Jersey, I'm not sure what the laws are, but apparently they are different, which is why they are filing for divorce in separate states.

But on the same token - if we are the constantly the ones selecting this type of look, they why are we hypocritically angry at her for having it? She's someone who is trying to be famous and have a career and playing into a common trope to do so. There are so many things wrong with our valuation of youth and…

Can we seriously stop using the term "baby prostitute"? I know it was a throw off joke in a movie from 15 years ago, but I seriously don't think people stop to think what the heck they're actually saying.

Ada Lovelace (female) writes first algorithm to be used on first basic computer and is considered the first "computer programmer" - now men use that technology to watch copious amounts of porn and play games.

As terrible as this story is, they are burying the lede, IMO. The law specifies out of wedlock, meaning if you conceal the death of a child in the context of marriage, there is no crime. The law was only changed to include fathers, rather than just mothers, in 1977. Boston.com covers the backstory of the law.

Oh, yes, mine are insane, all right. I usually have a family of four, and over the years my friends have joked about how mine are their own sub-species, felis eccentricus. I seem to have a knack for choosing ones that are extremely social, deeply weird, and unusually good at getting along with other cats. I've been…