Someone in high school harassed me by using a greeting card program to make cards with lesbian porn on the cover. It was really fucking bizarre. I didn’t go to high school with Bill O’Reily, but I had to comment because hadn’t thought about that in years until I saw your comment.

My 3 year-old niece found a video of kittens in a laundry basket and was laughing with delight at how cute they were. Then they got to go outside and she was yelling excitedly that the kittens were running! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen in my whole life.

I am at a family wedding weekend with my in-laws, about six weeks pregnant, and we are all staying in an air bnb. I hate staying in the same house as my MIL because she is always up in my business - she will walk in our room in the morning and stand there talking to us while we are still in bed, etc. My FIL has some…

I am preggo and sober at a family wedding the in-laws. I feel your pain.

On election night when I realized Trump could win, I let out a strangled sob, and my dog jumped on the couch, placed his paw on top of my hand, and looked me in the eye, like he was really trying to console me. He knew!

Thanks for the advice. I did tell my mother that it was really hurtful that the first thing she said was this logistics question that I have quite a bit of time to figure out rather than words of congratulations or happiness or asking how I am feeling.

I know. It’s so hard to break out of but I am trying.

Thanks!

I told my sister and my parents that I found out I am pregnant this week. My mom’s response was, “what are you going to do about child care?” My sister hasn’t even said congrats or asked me any questions at all other than whether I am planning to do a maternity photo shoot. It is so fucking weird and shitty. I am 33,…

Yes. This is what I meant. I think my phrasing has people confused because I have gotten a number of comments assuming that I am saying arguing contributory negligence here is a strategic decision.

I was saying that choosing NOT to argue contributory negligence was a reasonable strategic decision (in contrast to the personal injury cases I discussed where I think failing to argue it would be malpractice). I don’t think there is any merit to arguing it here for the very reasons you stated.

I agree.

Contributory negligence is a real legal doctrine. It means that if a plaintiff acted negligently himself, he can be assessed liability. It’s usually used to reduce damages in personal injury cases - if you have a car accident and you sue the other driver, but you weren’t wearing your seatbelt. If you lost a limb at…

A professional license like a teachers license is considered a property right and the holder has to be afforded due process before it is revoked. In short, there has to be a complete investigation and a hearing before the board before the license can be revoked. He has the right to counsel, so he probably had an…

In terms of a nature versus nurture debate - Was he born the kind of guy who’d jerk off in the back of an Uber, or did something in his life make him that way? - I’d say nature. He was born with the face of a guy who just looks like a public masturbator.

Ah yes, I will instead endeavor to achieve your level of maturity. I am heading off now to find a comment posted over seven years ago that I find objectionable so that I can reply with an insult! What’s your deal? You a Nickleback fan?

He might have tonsil stones. They cause nasty breath.

I think that may have been true at the beginning of the conversation, but after a lengthy discussion about issues of racism, his continued insistence that his problem was that he was a bad friend rather than acknowledging that he needed to examine his prejudices suggested to me that he didn’t really absorb the…

I love the content of this reply from the opening sentence to the last paragraph of the analysis. Anthony and the other men were articulate and kind in their interactions with Lee. I can’t believe the self control and also regret that they had to have such self control, lest they fulfill that aggressive trope. I can’t…

I grew to like Dean, but I am a Dean hometown truther - those vaguely ikat curtains in his dad’s place were actually Threshhold shower curtains from Target. Doesn’t fit with dad and his wife’s whole vibe. Actually, I take that back. Totally does. Their vibe is very “cultural appropriation.”