You cram 5 people into a Toyota Tercel and drive the 22 hours from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Key West, where you then are part of a group cramming 14 people into a rental house that is mean to sleep 4. Seriously, if you were one of the poor schmucks who got home from the bars late, you were sleeping either on a…

I'm showing my age, but the only equivalent I can think of during my teen years would have been Duran Duran. But except for thinking Simon Le Bon was hot, none of my friends gave a shit about what the guys did or even if they were in the band. It was just a different type of fan-dom.

My favorite Halloween costume (from a million years ago, when I was single and childless and Halloween was still a grown-up holiday involving crazy drunken parties) was as Fawn - I still have the "Emily Dickinson College" t-shirt I had made up. I made my face all sooty and carried around a broken pot.

Even as a teen, I never reacted this way to pop culture -type stuff. I find all of this both incomprehensible and hilarious.

She's got mad pipes and is so good at phrasing. Love her.

Granted it was over 20 years ago, but in my entire time at UVa, I never heard of a single person even getting arrested for having a fake ID (and everyone had them and everyone got caught at least once). The worst that would happen is that the ID would be confiscated and you would be barred from the place you tried to…

Ah, the joys of being a 1L. To steal a phrase from another campaign, it gets better!! Good luck. :)

I learned about Chamberlain and the 20th Maine from Steve Earle, which is the best way to learn about something.

there is no way Kaitlyn did much more than give Chris a half-hearted Canadian handjob and roll over with a muttered "peace oot."

My understanding is that the suit was seeking a declaratory judgment, which is a way of having a court decide an issue once and for all so that the parties know how to proceed from there. I don't think they were trying to sue Marvin Gaye's estate so much as resolve a legal question (the estate had been talking about…

I don't think branches of government can claim licensing rights. And I don't see a "women of the Supreme Court" Lego set as taking sides politically, but maybe I'm biased because I WANT ONE SO BAD!!!

Lego is so dumb for rejecting this. Every female lawyer in the country (including me) would order a set to display in her office. They'd make a fortune.

This. So much this.

She actually *didn't* get everyone who made the left shark tchotchkes to take them down. One guy hired one of the country's premier copyright/trademark lawyers to represent him, and Katy Perry's lawyers got totally pwned. http://politicalsculptor.blogspot.com/2015/02/politi…

Definitely. Unless the floors and walls of the White House are crazy tilted.

Ariana "rolls her eyes anytime Lea talks. "Ariana's just a baby though, she can't even see that far, the eyes do that accidentally.

This video is so lovely. When my daughter was born the nurses took her to clean her up and gave her a bath like this. When the water hit her head, every muscle in her body relaxed and she was totally, totally blissed out. It was amazing.

I don't know who "we" is, but if he's speaking for himself, he's correct: most of us didn't grow up raised by two-bit mobster enforcers who served time in Sing Sing. On the other hand, like Obama, I grew up partly overseas, with the love and encouragement of parents and grandparents who loved me and taught me to…

Don't assume that someone with a proficiency in advances sciences is blessed with an overabundance of social skills/awareness. They're not mutually exclusive, but they're also not necessarily coexistent.

I disagree. I'm around kids all the time and I have heard parents (and others) describe kids' behavior as "flirting" - which it unquestionably is - without it sounding remotely sexual. It's not weird at all. People say it all the time without anyone taking it the wrong way or getting creeped out.