Much like my kinja name, it’s a West Wing reference. A secret service guy gets shot and the reaction from the Republican candidate for president is, “Crime...(sigh)...boy, I don’t know.” And then the president explains that that’s when he decided to really kick his ass in the election.

If teen punks can get visits from large and humorless agents for saying shit on the internet how has this semimelted sienna crayon not been renditioned somewhere??

This is too much. This has really, really gone too far.

MURDER LOL IDK

That’s the kind of irrational pedantry that usually defines the system and makes this act of compassion so refreshing. The purpose of the non-contact order is so the parents/defendants can’t discuss their testimony before the trial. They cannot do so on camera in front of the issuing judge. She could have been an…

Not if she’s the issuing judge. She’s got a right to temporarily do what she wants with it.

Not sending people to prison for non-violent crimes is not that radical an idea, actually.

Eight more of these, on the other hand...

When you sit in a court of law day in and day out, it’s easy to forget that your litigants are human beings with lives outside of the justice system. Good on Judge Wolf for not forgetting and for not being afraid to sometimes let common sense prevail over the black letter law. She is a credit to the bar.

equating dramas that contain murder with torture porn or snuff films is just ... silly.

Ryder is almost certainly not trying to make her point into a backdoor compliment about being adorably skinny.

OTOH, he seems to be doing exceptionally well as an adult with microcephaly.

Easy for him to say. He won’t be the one going through the heartbreak of having a child with microcephaly.

I made a new burner account because I couldn’t remember my password JUST to comment this BUT there is a book called “How to Disappear Completely” about anorexia where the author talks about how women who are small (petite and thin, basically) are romanticized to be mysterious and artsy because they are small (and/or…

I think people don’t take her seriously because she’s so petite and has always looked young.

Alcoholic: a person suffering from a condition when a person ingests [alcohol and] the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilites such as work, relationships or health.

Nah, the alcoholic is the guy who needs a strict rule on the amount he allows himself to drink.

Dude, I can’t believe people are trying to call you an alcoholic and just wanted to say I totally agree with you. This article is judgemental as hell and basically says that everyone who has more than two drinks becomes a tiresome drunk that you can look down on as you sip your glass of water and then smugly go home.…

If someone tells you they think you have a drinking problem, I dare you to try and explain how you *don’t* have a drinking problem without sounding like you have a drinking problem. It just can’t be done.

No I haven’t had a drink in weeks but thanks for the concern.