Relatedly, I was trying to understand how it could possibly make sense for her to rent a car for her daily commute as compared to using a car share service.

Pete Ross is one of Clark Kent’s boyhood friends:

Just as unnecessary apostrophes have ruined these comments. [/JK]

While St. Nicholas was from an area that is in modern day Turkey, the Turks hadn’t moved there at the time he was alive (270-343 AD). Most sources say he was ethnically Greek.

Starred for the F&LiLV reference.

They aren’t likely to kill an adult human, but they can do enough damage that I’d still recommend staying a good distance away.

+1 If you’re breaking the law in some manner, Rule # 1 is, “Don’t talk to the media about the unlawful thing you’re doing because that’s virtually daring law enforcement to come after you.”

As a lawyer who uses “pled” all the time, I’d like a citation for “pleaded” actually being more correct.

Evidence of prior convictions is generally excluded at trial unless it’s highly relevant in some way to the proceeding (e.g., establishes motive).

Much like The Onion’s classic space filler, “Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood . . . .”

I’m not defending Keillor even if it happened the way he described it because I would never pat a coworker of either sex on the back under any circumstance, but I can imagine what he describes happening if the “patee” was wearing a blouse with a long split-back opening.

Give me “Yub Nub” or give me death!

Give me “Yub Nub” or give me death!

There is no way in any American jurisdiction that a private lender can hold one spouse personally liable on a loan taken by the other spouse unless: (a) the spouses consolidated their loans, (b) the first spouse cosigned for the second spouse’s loan, (c) the first spouse did something else that constituted agreeing to…

There is actually a justifiable reason in some situations for consolidating your student loans with your spouse’s — depending on what interest rates have been doing, and what the balance and rate on the respective loans are, it can result in the couple paying a lower total amount in interest since the consolidation…

Isn’t that every person posting on Twitter?

Assuming the deceased spouse didn’t consolidate their loans with those of the surviving spouse. (Which is part of the reason my wife and I chose not to consolidate our student loans.)

You also can’t get rid of student loans by dying.

You’re probably correct about the name change to hide identity thing. However, at the same time, if that’s true, doesn’t it actually make it worse to consciously give such a name to your child because that means it’s not selection bias or something that merely causes a perception that certain names are associated with…

You know how you feel about Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory? How he and his friends are all stereotypes of the arche-nerd? Terrible at anything that isn’t the things that nerds are supposed to be good at like science, comic books, video games and role playing games?

I’m definitely OK with dropping “The American” and “Celebrity Brain Crash.”