Kind of extreme, no? 49 states make it illegal. Which do you think is wiser, given the huge number of out of state drivers that CA hosts, keeping it legal, or not? I ask because even though riders suffer disproportionately when they encounter 4-wheeled vehicles, drivers can be hurt, too, and vehicles damaged. I have…

I’m not sure how the CA DMV tracks bike accidents, but I suspect that insurers have pretty good data, since they usually get both sides of the story. I find it difficult to believe that lane splitting is safer than not, so I’d love it if someone could confirm or refute my bias.

Not enough stars.

He is such an asshole. I kind of wish, thinking about it, that “asshole” had a superlative.

Well, there’s that. I’m not going to pretend that I don’t know how presumptuous and entitled men are, or that despite all our recent social advances, women have anything approaching social, political, or economic equality. It has to suck, when one considers those circumstances, that women have the added fun of being…

I was!

No, I have all the sympathy in the world for women. We co-exist in the same spaces. I’m not condescending when I say you can’t expect no unwanted contact, ever, from men when you’re in a crowded space. It’s counter-intuitive. Nor am I up my own ass when I say that we all have the option to avoid conflict, at least…

Nope. I don’t think anyone should dish it out. I just don’t think violence is a zero sum game.

I’m not rationalizing violence against women. But, if you think that there’s never a situation where it’s necessary, you don’t live in this world. Get physically attacked by a woman, then try to restrain her from hurting you. That’s violent, but it isn’t outwardly directed, nor frivolous, nor intentionally injurious.

Away. There's a pot for every lid, my friend.

I gotta say, you probably haven’t read the other stuff I wrote, because I’m not in his corner on the punch, not in the slightest.

We see different things. I saw him grab her arms so she wouldn’t hit him. She then hit him. He then hit her. I was a bouncer for a loooonnngg time and I have been hit by a ton of drunk women in pretty much the same way.

First, in a crowd, you’re not entitled to a zone of protection where you are immune from someone bumping you. That’s normal behavior. She’d have to show that no one else bumped her at anytime of the evening, which is impossible.

Misdemeanors, at most. He didn’t have to hit her, true, and I think he shouldn’t have. But, I’m not sure that if he just wrapped her up things wouldn’t have escalated, and not in his favor. Either way, her actions were the precipitants of the whole thing. They really should have just called it a wash.

It’s the crime of assault, which is threatening battery. He grabs her arm (allowable, to prevent being punched), she hits him (battery). That’s how. EDIT: assault and battery are separate crimes.

It's the crime of assault, which is threatening battery. He grabs her arm (allowable, to prevent being punched), she hits him (battery). That's how.

Any way you look at it, she initiates the assault and commits battery first. If his lawyer can't get him out of this, he's a hack. I'm not endorsing violence against women or misogyny, merely pointing out that (aside of him being underage) she's the first person to commit an illegal act. It doesn't matter how it…

I’m a man. If you intend to catch me with this look, you’d better be wearing athletic footwear and you’d better be fast. I've got wheels and that shit is freaky.

Trump is finally learning about market forces. Wharton or no, he always seemed to have an incomplete grasp of the topic. He’s also learning that good businesses can swiftly pivot.

Honestly, you could have started with, “Just don’t mod a PT Cruiser. Don’t even have one, unless your Grandma from Florida gave it to you when they took her license.”