I'm not a lawyer, but I am a dork who loves scotusblog. They court heard oral arguments a month ago, so it will be a while before they rule. As scotusblog explained it, the justices were asking questions about the test to determine a threat. The government argued that if a reasonable person would call it a thrat, it…

I'd never go to such a site, and I bet it is alternately infuriating and boring. Now that I know it is no girls allowed? Suddenly I would like to go visit. I guess that's just my little woman brain, excited to find new ways to violate the rights of all those good men.

Not too bad though, he got adopted by a guy with a huge backyard and infinite patience for adolescent hijinks (chopping off the boys probably helped too). It left me super affectionate towards chows, just a little wary of the commitment.

They're bad reputation is also a challenge, they are often on theist of banned breeds for home owners insurance and apartments. I fostered a chow mix for a couple months and he was the dopiest, loviest boy. He was so pretty. It seems unfair that people were scared of him, but he was also strong as hell and as a 2 year…

Very well said and an important point. I think it is tempting to say someone who committed a terrible crime must have something wrong inside, and our way of talking about that is to call it mental illness. It is comforting because than we don't have to confront the fact that there are terrible people who want to hurt…

I can't believe that 12 year olds are considered adults for trial. We seem to decide who should be tried as an adult based upon the severity of the crime rather than the maturity of the child. I struggle with the idea that a murderer could be let free at 25, but how can anyone believe they are equipped to mount a…

what's crazy to me is that Grant Hill is 6'8" and 225 when he played. And he looks small next to Shaq.

I hate signing up for auto-renew services and so many products are only sold that way. My car came with Sirius satellite, which I enjoyed, a paid for a year membership. A year later they tried to charge my expired debit card and then called and told me I owed them $124 in the best debt collector voice they could come…

I was sent a promotional guest pass for a local gym/country club that had a $33000 initiation fee plus $350/month gym fee. This was a case of tragically poor demo targeting, as $33000 is more than I have spent on every car I've ever owned, combined. I did go though. It was crazy nice. Olympic sized outdoor pool,…

It is the kicking that gets me too. I sat in a row of three seats with a family of 4 (two parents, two kids) crammed into two seats. I get that airfare is expensive but come on, there is no way those kids were both under 2. And even if they were, that family volunteered for a terrible experience. I'm not sure having…

I disagree, the conclusion from news reports is that the hackers are organized and well funded. Those attributes would suggest someone who is capable of mounting a violent attack, which, in this country, we've seen doesn't take much more than a wacko with drivers license who can arm up like Rambo. I don't think it is…

Mumps vaccinations are not required for school in Canada, and some portion of the vaccinated population will fail to develop immunity (I think for mumps it is about 10%, but I'm not sure). The close quarters shared by teammates makes an ideal environment for infection to spread.

I'm about the likely age of these parents, I had my first sex ed in 1989-1990, right about the time 100,000 people in the United States had died of AIDS related health problems, HIV infection rates were still climbing, and AZT was the only treatment available. In my school they practically threw condoms at us and…

My roommate in college did this—it worked great until she really wanted concert tickets. Credit cards thawing in the microwave are a bad (though exciting!) thing,

Wisconsin is a wonderful state but every so often we seem to unleash a tidal wave of assholes. For heavens sake, in the last 6 years we have sent Walker, Ron Johnson, Reince priebas, and now this guy onto the national stage? Did we miss how embarrassed everyone was about Joseph McCarthy?

what a strange product line. The cool thing about 3d printing is the ability to manufacture your own design, not to get a fresh napkin ring like all the other napkin rings except it is more expensive and you have to wait a couple hours.

I was deeply disappointed that the phone did not catch on fire as promised in the article...where are your journalistic standards!