I dunno. Maybe it’s from spending 5 years working in the Brooklyn courthouse where we generally say “judge,” not “Your Honor,” and where if you’re not actually yelling at the judge, you haven’t gone far enough.

But she literally got handcuffed for trying to talk over the judge.

I was thinking Stephen Avery and Grumpy Cat plus a lot of pregnant drinking.

Those uppity lady lawyers, always trying to do their jobs! Who did she think she was speaking up when a man was talking? Pfft. Lucky she got off without a spanking.

It’s like he’s a bad person and his eyes are trying to get away.

And we all know if the genders were reversed the judge never would have pulled this bullshit.

Isn’t kinda disrespectful for a judge to address lawyers by their first names rather than Counselor? This is clearly not a friendly working relationship, so seems like a breach of ettiquette on his part. True, or nah?

He’s in a room full of lawyers. And sometimes you need to talk over that judge, if only to demand your rights as a potential defendant. Moreover, there is almost always an Administrative Judge who oversees the other judges.

As an attorney, the method for bench bullies I was always taught was to say, “You’re Honor, if you’re going to hold me in contempt, I demand that the charges against me be particularized on the record as proscribed in the Judicial Canon, that a hearing be set on notice of no fewer than thirty days as due process…

Was the lesson “I don’t know what decorum means”?

I can’t help but think that some evils simply need to be removed from this world. There is little to no hope of ever fixing what is wrong with him, so I can’t help but feel that ending that existence is better than maintaining it at all.

“I wish my country was better than this.”

I think that you either have a house where it works out (i.e. you have a basement apartment, separate entrance, etc.) or your dating life centers around some place else. For me, it happened in the city where I worked, mostly with partners who had their own place, and rarely made it back to the suburbs with me.…

Agreed. I’m from MA, and I was actually attending UMass Dartmouth when it got evacuated to search Tsarnaev’s dorm. I still said, when they announced they were pushing for capital punishment on federal charges (since MA doesn’t have it), that I wish my country was better than this. I don't pity him, but I can't get…

I love living with my folks. I hate that I have to throw this in: I have my BA and teaching degree, I work 50 hours a week, I make a point to travel and go to new places. I treat this home like it’s my own, so any issues or renovations that arise, I either take care of or financially contribute to. I love gardening…

You’re a good parent. I was too immature for school my first time around and got compounded by a rough breakup that left me in a really bad place. Moved home, got my mind right and when I tried to go back to just community college to start rehabbing my transcripts, my parents told me to eat shit.

“It sounds to me more like she went to college because everyone emphasized that that was the best way to get a good paying job (there is still a lot of truth in that), without having any real idea what she wanted to do with herself after college. Once she figures out where she’s going, she will be fine.”

I think that a lot of people my age actually like living with their parents. I did it for a year after college, and feel grateful that I had that time with them. It’s not necessarily the cool thing to say, but for some people I know, it’s a choice they made over going out on their own or with roommates.

for people ages 18 to 34

Okay, ROLL CALL, who else is in this shameful arrangement?