Consumable Holiday Presents
The quintessential first world problem – what holiday gifts can we give that won’t simply get thrown onto the heap?
Monthly Archive: December 2018
Tedious Passtimes: Waiting For The Rest of the Family To Get Up
Sometimes you gotta give’em the whole works.
Ordinary Sunday Brunch: Culture Links
Ordinary Sunday Brunch: Culture Links is Ordinary Times’ Sunday Morning tradition of bringing you links to stories about music, art, history, and food to read, share, and discuss.
Donald Trump Is a Good President
I’m not sure the rest of the world actually agrees with this, though.
Linky Friday: Mental Health
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times’ weekly tradition of links to stories from around the world and across the web. This week, a focus on mental health to read, share, and discuss.
The Weekend Plans Post: The Holidays Are Upon Us
Time to think about getting the presents you didn’t get from Amazon.
Justin Schneider and Jacob Anderson Go Free; Cyntoia Brown Does Not
The law is such a miraculous thing: all at once so malleable and so rigid. Prosecutors were willing to engineer sweetheart deals for rapists like Schneider and Anderson, and yet prosecutors were unwilling to acknowledge Brown’s humanity despite her being an abused 16-year-old girl being sold for sex.
The Sad Reality of Retirement in America
Social Security was, in fact, explicitly imagined and implemented to provide a dignified retirement for all Americans.
Ordinary World 13 Dec 2018
Your Ordinary World for 13 Dec 2018 with links to stories from around the world and across the web to read, share, and discsuss.
Michael Cohen Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison
President Trump’s long-time personal attorney Michael Cohen has been sentenced of 3 years in prison, after having plead guilty to 9 charged crimes in federal court.
Insider Baseball : Cal Ed and California Politics Edition
What is up and coming in the next two years for public education in California
Wednesday Writs for 12/12
This week’s roundup of the best and most interesting law and legal related links from around the web, including SCOTUS updates, falsely branded potato chips, love triangles that become international treaty violations, and more.
Resolution Number 4,000,000 Achieved
I did it like this,
I did it like that.
I did it with a soggy three-dollar Santa hat.
Did SCOTUS “Side With Planned Parenthood?” (No.)
Six of the nine justices voted to deny certiorari in Gee vs. Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast, Inc. and Andersen v. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. But while these cases do contain the trigger words “Planned Parenthood”, the denial of cert does not reflect the temperature of the Court on the issue of abortion.
