The question should be who among these media outlets is trying to jazz up what should be a primary of substance so thatbored moderate Democrats can once again swoon over a candidate of little experience and substance, a la Obama. Harris and Klobuchar aren't getting that treatment despite being candidates of limited…

We’re lucky that even the candidates who supposedly have some charisma (or who some mayonnaise moderate Democrats think is attractive) are barely garnering attention this time around, at least in terms of polling.

Agree that this is nowhere near as bad as framed in the article. Being wrong today is often equated to being both stupid and immoral, but sometimes (often!) people are just wrong and unless they refuse to acknowledge their error, we should all be open to those people admitting fault and doing the work to correct their…

If you insist. That article in no way contradicts what I said.

If you insist. That article in no way contradicts what I said.

Just comes off as BS. No biggie lolz

I’ve also NEVER heard anyone describe the process as the “top tier law school and biglaw thing” so casually. Very detached, like it was just on a menu of options. 

Sadly by the time she gets to a level to influence prison reform beyond public exhortation, the movement behind that reform will have achieved its aims (already decades in progress) or the funding for that reform will have mostly dried up and the non-profit community will have moved on. Everyone who goes to law school…

Maybe habits have changed. Everyone I went to school with studied for the vast majority of their day for 3-4 months. 18 hours might be a slight exaggeration but it's not an exaggeration to say her study habits from high school won't measure up even remotely. 

Not really. Fashion trends weren’t really commercially available to most people for most of human history. There's a difference between changing styles (which generally changed slowly) and the commodification of novelty, which is how you'd describe consumer trends today. Stupid and pointless might describe most…

Not really. Fashion trends weren’t really commercially available to most people for most of human history. There's a…

Modern culture: this is stupid and pointless but it's on trend so I love it! 

Modern culture: this is stupid and pointless but it's on trend so I love it! 

Who says they aren't? I think most young and single CIS men are all for access to abortions. I'd suggest they're much more invested in access to abortion than non-CIS men. The question should be how you get married conservative women to stop being so pro-life and anti-abortion, because they are overwhelmingly vocal in…

The fact that she’s complaining about the reading already (and is only taking 3 courses over an entire year rather than the normal 7-8) is a very bad sign. She may be supremely capable of grasping concepts (although I doubt it), but she’ll need to develop a much greater endurance for the work required or she’ll never…

Anyone studying for a bar exam or an equally comprehensive licensing exam. 

As an attorney, I can attest that anyone toying with the idea of practicing law without going to law school (or toying with the idea of practicing law full stop) is not inherently smart. Anyone other than Kim K trying to practice law without going to law school would appropriately deemed an idiot because that person…

Isn’t she explicitly not getting a law degree? Which will be fine for her because someone will hire her for the publicity, fully aware that she is not prepared to practice law and will get bored quickly anyway. But a bunch of other people will try to go down this road in imitation of her and they will come to realize…

This reads like Deadspin being taken over by a 16-year old. Editor-in-Chief? Yeesh. 

You lost me at David S. Pumpkins being a cultural touchstone. I’d agree that SNL was once a significant cultural force and an important satirical voice. Now it’s like the theater kids from a local high school reacting to yesterday’s news with the unbridled fury of people who just recently starting paying attention to…

I think you're wildly overestimating the cultural significance of SNL if you think Baldwin's Trump is "era-defining". Like most of contemporary SNL, Baldwin's Trump impression feels like an afterthought which couldn't stand in any greater contrast to some of the classic political impressions from past casts. Baldwin…

Well you can dissemble all you want but everyone knows what “white trash” means and it’s not middle class whites who voted for Trump. Particularly when your comment denigrates both their level of intelligence and taste in the way that it does.

While I generally agree that this might be what some working class whites think, I don’t think it’s productive to fight their ignorance with your own classism, e.g. calling them ‘white trash’. You’re just perpetuating the attitudes that are so easily used by guys like Shapiro to manipulate the white working class into…