100% that's all true. But having worked as a teacher and coming from a family of teachers I know that you can combine topics. Especially in social studies for kid or even English you can learn both about history, society, and short stories while simultaneously learning that if you're a spendthrift, you'll be broke. …

Why can't things be taught in 2 places? You know, to make sure everyone gets it at least once and some lucky kids get it twice! That doesn't really seem harmful . . . .

Oh, hello, mid-second-term Obama. We expected this behavior, and maybe some action on it, sooner.

ACK!! "We lawyers. . . " Do *not* include me in your creepy old man, distracted, disjointed, illogical diary of drivel Mr. Stein. No.

I like Lulu and Nike ones. I have friends who swear by Brooks.

So, they have built in mini-shorts usually (my favorites do) and I find the breeziness nice PLUS having bigger thighs, I find that the mini shorts, while not something I would wear alone, are perfect for not creating chafing but getting the breeziness/coolness of shorts. Additional vanity point is that when I run…

You will pry my running skirts from my cold, dead hands. I love them. Unabashedly.

In law school, the most heated debate in which I was engaged was whether women who perform in pornography ever really choose that role or if all pornography is anti woman (a theory espoused by Catherine McKinnon; we were studying her writing). The theoretical individual on whose behalf I argued that such a thing was…

Greg Kelly is such a creeper. I put him up there with Letterman in terms of "men I cannot understand on television" in light of each hitting 100% on the leering or creepy man shtick constantly.

But the problem is that "me" is a corporation. A for-profit corporation. A corporation that is not in any way shape or form a religious entity. Corporate personhood was intended to serve a limited purpose - so corporations can sue and be sued for business related activities, primarily. This ruling flips the free…

Ah, yes, Kinja wasn't showing me the whole thread before. We're on the same page. I am also thinking of developing some deeply held beliefs about paying in to social security and FMLA being inadequate. Anyone with me?

That's entirely incorrect. This applies to multiple forms of contraception that people who run Hobby Lobby (who are not medical professionals) believe cause abortions. Factually, they do not - Plan B, for example, prevents implantation and without implantation, there is no pregnancy. However because the courts do…

Determining that RFRA requires strict scrutiny was the biggest leap. Once Alito et al got there, there was no turning back. Oddly enough, by having the non-profit religious entity exemption in the law - which was crucial to its passage - the administration had to lose, once strict scrutiny was applied. Another…

A search that includes court records. An online Lexis people search would show that. And, it would seem highly probably she'd have liens against her or bad credit, and a credit check might throw up red flags.

Yup. Not every victim is blameless. It's why tort liability will take into account each party's actions to determine damages. I know this is Jezebel and there are many articles and conversations about victim blaming in the context of sexual assault — and that's never ok. But, that's not at all what this article is…

The human body is amazing. And while that time is not national championships fast, that's pretty darn quick for a regular non-pregnant human

Any background check would show evidence of this — whether it be liens on her property, court filings, etc. Hiring a caretaker for your children without a background check? That's reckless. They are victims of their recklessness.

This family did a really terrible job in hiring their nanny. How could they not have done sufficient background checks, before having someone *move into their home*, that they didn't know she was a serial litigant? This seems like it could have easily been avoided with a little more effort in hiring than "you seem…

I've read it a dozen times, still can't find the word "useless" in my post. And she signed a consent form, even if everything surrounding the scope of consent, based on limited info I have access to/have read, was murky. Similarly, I'd certainly much prefer someone took my uterus than liver, because even without a…

The question before the jury presumably was both (1) the value of a 48ear old woman's uterus and (2) pain and suffering from having the procedure done wrongfully - the article says malpractice was established. While organs are rarely without value, a 48 year old's uterus doesn't really have practical life left in…