People suck, but I am not surprised by this, because I have heard the very same thing from some of my neighbors. I live in a historic neighborhood (so the houses are old and close together) in the downtown of a city and Halloween is a HUGE deal there. Lots of people go all out on decorations (we do a whole graveyard…

I'm a lawyer and I would *hate* this show for all the reasons mentioned, except that the classroom scenes in the pilot were filmed at my undergrad alma mater. So I'm watching it and trying to pretend it's not wildly inaccurate and incredibly implausible.

I actually have a special cabinet just for my stupidly specific, indispensable kitchen gadgets. It currently houses a bread maker, an ice tea maker, a hot air popcorn popper, a microwave pasta cooker and a pop tart maker. I use them all on a pretty regular basis, much to my husband's amazement. I also have the bowl…

I'm embarrassed at how excited I am about this! My kid learned to read with Dr. Seuss (I can still recite most of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish from memory), and To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street was one of his favorites. I'm definitely going to get this despite the fact that the all-knowing…

I'm originally from NJ, but I've clearly been in SC too long, because I did the same thing.

I don't really get the hate on this suit. I'm a lawyer in South Carolina, and I'm pretty sure I could go to the nearest courthouse and find a suit like this on a half a dozen different people. Except they'd all have pink or purple ties on. I have a tan suit myself (though I hardly ever wear suits anymore). This seems…

The other flight was Newark to Denver, diverted to Chicago after the fight broke out. EWR to DEN is a good four hour flight.

You misunderstand my position, I think. I'm pretty sure that the 500 toilet paper roll lightsabers, 250 swords, 120 pairs of binoculars, 75 tunnels, 50 nun-chucks and 35 megaphones* he's already made will be sufficient to hold him for the rest of his childhood. As it is, I try to throw them out, but he inevitably…

My eight year old is going to be CRUSHED by this development. I, on the other hand, will be thrilled to finally put an end to the stream of toilet paper roll lightsabers, binoculars, swords, nun-chucks, telescopes, Hot Wheels car tunnels and megaphones that is threatening to take over my house.

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No one has taken her on as a client. She has filed 27 lawsuits in federal court in the Southern District of New York between May 15 and August 1, 2014 and as far as I can tell, they're all pro se. The most recent one names the following defendants: "The United States Congress, The United States of America, The…

I'm a lawyer and I didn't understand this, either. I don't practice criminal law and 1L year is admittedly a LONG time back now, but I assumed that manslaughter was a lesser-included offense of murder, so under the merger doctrine a conviction would have to be one or the other. However, according to my brief search…

Yeah, FMLA only applies if you work for an employer that has 50 employees within 75 miles. The main office just hits that, but the satellites are more than 75 miles from the main office and nowhere near each other, so none of those employees are eligible. This is a place that docked me three days vacation time to…

Yup. I work for a law firm with one big office and several smaller satellite offices. The people that work at the big office are eligible for FMLA, but those of us at the satellite offices aren't, so we get maternity and other extended leave "on a case by case basis." I don't think they've ever outright refused…

Yup. I'm from the east coast, and I typically give cash as a wedding gift. Unless you specifically ask for cash. Then you get an ugly gift that's at least as tacky as you are, and no gift receipt.

Virtually all states have at-will employment. Last time I checked (and I research this pretty frequently) there was only one that didn't - Montana has a statutory limitation to common law at-will employment. However, lots of states recognizes various common law exceptions to the at-will employment rule such as…

Two weeks ago, I was walking my son from the art museum where he'd been at day camp back to my office, through the downtown of our city, when some guy walking past us said something like "hey sexy mama, you're lookin' soooo goooood" and made kissy noises at me. I was flabbergasted - I guess I thought that holding…

This is true, especially since her first cause of action alleges a violation of Title VI based on her being "a white Caucasian woman" who "suffered harassment as a result of her race." There's a lot shitty stuff alleged in this complaint, but I don't see anything that suggests she was discriminated against based on…

The boat trip didn't happen in Nashville, it happened at a conference in San Diego.

My mom was diagnosed with celiac disease when I was in college, so she was either 49 or 50. I'm in my early 40s now, and whenever I eat something with gluten in front her, she says "enjoy that now, because you'll probably end up like me!" and then cackles like a maniac. She's mean.