I had to look it up. I was 99% sure that “desk-pop” had to do with firing a gun, considering the subject matter, but I was clinging to that 1%, hoping in vain that it meant you liked my joke so much that it gave you an erection while sitting at your desk:(

Try paying for nicer alcohol next time. Your wallet may help slow you down. You can then think of a night out as 2 nice drinks that cost 2x as much a the bottom shelf/well alcohol you’ve had, so the cost of 2 is the same as your 4.

I feel you. BUT what I also dislike MORE, as I get older and older, is the way my body reacts to drinks 3 and 4 the next day, as if I have chugged a bottle of rat poison.

It is my hope that I will have a similar attitude towards my marriages.

Same here. My tolerance is pretty high. Drinks 1 and 2 only prime me for the mild buzz Drink 3 provides, and Drink 4 ends the night with a wonderful buzz-but-not-drunk feeling.

This is good advice. But it is hard to follow. Especially since I love drinks 3 and 4 most of all.

Just seconding that it doesn’t really matter if he was an affirmative action admission. He was elected (by his peers, and only the ones that made the law review cut at that) as President of the Harvard Law Review. There is no more prestigious accomplishment available to any law student anywhere in the country (unless,…

They never seem to have problems with it when you call it legacy admission. Only when it’s made clear that POC and women will get a bump as well does it suddenly become a problem. And even then some white women have issues with it for POC (without acknowledging that they are the biggest beneficiaries of it.)

we can thank ronald reagan for that. he started the whole “welfare queen driving a caddy and eating lobstah on the gummint dime” thing.

these are the same old whities collecting social security and medicare, taking mortgage interest deductions, etc. bitching that they never had help from the gummint. mah head is ready to EXPLODE from these people. do they have zero neurons firing in their heads? are they just ambulatory flesh vessels of involuntary…

Oh, it’s not and it’s certainly not unlike the white affirmative action programs that admitted 3 or 4 of the Trump kids into the University of Pennsylvania — called legacy, but it is really the white man’s affirmative action. As taken advantage of by the Bushes, Kennedys, Cheneys, Eisenhowers, Forbes, Bloombergs,…

*You* specifically might not have mentioned taking money away from these programs, but the rhetoric you spout comes from people who do support taking money away. I guess we differ on tactics. I believe that if you support people, give them enough food, help them find work and child care so they can get off the…

Regardless, I’m pretty sure the Harvard Law Review does not use affirmative action in picking its members, definitely not in picking its Editor-in-Chief.

Because getting your daddy to promise a building if they let you in despite your dismal grades is the proper way to do things.

Unless you are a victim of a drone attack or a whistleblower...

Actual story my father-in-law (FedEx employee) has told many, many times:

“can’t bootstrap if you have no shoes” is just perfect

And somehow being admitted because of affirmative action is shameful and a sign you didn't deserve admission, but legacy admissions are just A-OK.

It’s not, unless you are one of those white people like that chick who sued U. Texas, claiming that she didn’t get in because they went and let in a bunch of black applicants with worse grades/test scores. Lots of conservatives like to blame others for their own failures, and “blacks who got admitted to [college]…

Right? It is almost like the point of Affirmative Action isn’t to allow unqualified people in “because diversity.” It’s almost as if it exists to make sure qualified people aren’t held back by institutional racism/sexism. Crazy idea.