Hey, 114° here in Portland was wa-a-a-a-ay back in 2021. Besides, they first reported it as 116°, so that shows you what THEY know! Anyway, all the forests burned up already way back in '20! All danger has passed!
Seriously, I heard there were fifty FEET of snow on the Sierra Nevadas this winter. Good for the drought? Maybe if California had better water retention infrastructure. Buckle up, it gets bumpy from here on out.
Legacy media also can’t imagine ignoring MTG because she is a rising star in the GOP even though it would completely ignore her if she were a LaRouchite handing out pamphlets on a city street or just a rando on TikTok or the gram.
I believe I'm on record as saying that there should be a norm that any body of elected officials ought not take up new business in lame duck sessions. They should resolve old or pending business and respond to emergencies only, for the sake of respecting democracy.
Well, if what you're looking for are conventionally-attractive incumbent female heads of state or government from European nations, now that Sanna Marin will no longer be prime minister of Finland, let me point you to Maia Sandu of Moldova, Kaja Kallas of Estonia, or Katrín Jakobsdóttir of Iceland (who, IMHO, looks more than a little bit like Björk but that probably isn't very surprising and I still think Björk is good-looking too). If you're going to go beyond Europe, Jetsun Pema of Bhutan is strikingly attractive.
Personally, I think that I'm able to assemble such a list because a) all politics is becoming more visual since television, b) women are assuming more prominent roles in positions of power and influence in this phase of feminism (in nations hospitable to feminism), and c) I am in their general age group, which colors my subjective assessment of attractiveness.
I've little opinion of Ms. Marin's performance as her nation's head of state beyond noting that Finland is one of the wealthiest, and happiest, nations on earth although I'm not sure how much she had to do with that. Also I'm glad to welcome Finland into NATO, a decision with which Ms. Marin probably had much to do.
Bard (from Google/Alphabet) seems a lot smarter than ChatGPT. This may be a product of integrating web searches, but for whatever stew of reasons, its essays deal with requested ssubstance in ways that seem like actual responses from a person, and less like a generic essay from a high school senior who knows the rules of grammar but hadn't actually done the reading.
There's another rule they don't teach in law school, but which a surprisingly high percentage of lawyers come across at one point or another in their practice. The rule is "Don't Eff With The Mouse."
As far as I can tell, Silver's model did work in 2022. Actual results were well within the margin of error of 538's Congressional forecast model, so I'ma saying his math mathed.
Silver's prowess as a pundit is no better nor any worse than any other left-of-center horse-race predictor. (Particularly when there isn't a horse race underway for him to talk about.)
[High-pitched cartoon voice] Hah hah! Don't Eff With The Mouse! [Trigger warning: clicking the link will produce a parody image of a cartoon figure making an obscene hand gesture.]
[Regular voice] In fact, the clause indicating that the agreement will last for the duration of the lifetime of the descendants of King Charles III of England plus 21 years is a master stroke of legal drafting -- it runs right up against the Rule Against Perpetuities, plus it guarantees that the revelation of the agreement will get lots of headlines. King Charles' youngest descendent is, I believe, Princess Lilibet, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who was born in 2021. (Also, the Royals tend to be rather long-lived.)
[High-pitched cartoon voice, making Mickey Mouse giggling noises]
Weird that dudes making stern moral pronouncements and exhibiting performatively uncompassionate statements have difficulty attracting mates. I mean, it's so weird that women can't see how retro-stylish their fedoras really are!
The contents of the bag included a quarter portion of a partially eaten burrito wrapped in waxed paper, a soiled napkin, a crumpled napkin, a stack of napkins, the wrapper of the burrito, a crumpled food wrapper, four unopened hot sauce packets, and the brown paper bag itself [.]
And here I tell my clients that real life law enforcement isn't like what they see on CSI. I bet there was even techno music playing in the background while they tested the remains of the burrito for DNA in their spic-and-span clean state-of-the-art crime lab stuffed to the gills with Science! Stuff.
More importantly, it isn’t the job of the public schools to normalize anything.
It's the job of the public schools to fulfill their legislative mandates. It's up to us, the political decision-makers of a state, to tell the legislature what we mandate schools to do.
You can probably get a very emotionally-fraught argument started by simply asking a few questions about what it is schools are supposed to do right now. Is it...
Putting specific kinds of knowledge in the brains of students?
Providing adult supervision to students so as to free up the ability of parents to pursue employment?
Socializing students to be the kinds of consumers and citizens the state prefers they become?
Making students employable upon their attainment of adulthood?
Dispensing health and nutrition to students?
Providing employment to teachers and other staff?
Serving as a locus for community identity and activity?
...It's all of these and more, of course, but saying so out loud sometimes sounds like it's very very socialistic and we certainly can't have that, now can we?
Nah, I think Standards and Practices is a jazz duo. She (Standards) sings and solos on an EWI while he (Practices) sets the drum machine and plays piano. They're available for weddings, anniversary parties, bar mitzvahs, and retirement celebrations and have several CDs and downloadable setlists available for sale.
Know that you have my sympathies and best wishes for the least-bad outcome here. This sounds like a really stressful and periodically painful situation for you. "Least bad outcome" likely means you get custody of the kids with some sort of visitation plan for your ex. It's not at all unrealistic to think that could be the outcome.
At the same time, I hope that if you're right about your ex, she gets professional help for her own situation, and that she can heal her relationship with her children.
Fair. In both perspectives, though, it's about women being unhappy with what marriage brings them. It's not about society being hard-wired to favor women's interests over mens'.
I recall looking into this ( with you?) a few mo ths ago and yes, that number is close to accurate. The real question is what meaning do we want to attach to it?
For my part, I don't believe that the vast bulk of either men or women enter into marriages in our culture for the purpose of economic advancement. Rather, I think they enter into marriage because they believe marriage will make both of the spouses happier. If it is women who are initiating most divorces, that sounds like marriage fails to meet their happiness expectations. Which sounds like women are making their men happy? But men are not making their women happy.
In my comment below I do not make as fine of a distinction with my nomenclature as finely as you do here. Can't say I've heard of the MGTOW phenomenon and to me it looks like MRA-Lite, and weighing the degree or flavor of the misogyny underlying either world view is not something I've done. And, I'll be honest, it's probably not something I'm ever going to do.
1. Divorce rates are declining, yes, but aren't marriage rates declining too? If fewer people (per capita) are getting married, that necessarily means that fewer people (per capita) will get divorced.
2. I was disappointed to read an article about a strain of anti-marriage sentiment on "the right" but not an exploration of what that line of thinking entails and what it signifies. A look at the link, and its second reply and follow up comment from the author make clear that what we're talking about are male rights activists, as evidenced by his belief that "women control family court." This is not a new sentiment within right-of-center circles, and it is deeply and solidly rooted in misogyny. Hopefully (and I hold this hope personally with confidence), it is unrepresentative of how most conservatives think.
If you want to see even more exciting footage of cops wandering around Afroman's house unsuccessfully searching for marijuana and kidnapping victims, with guns drawn and exhibiting very poor trigger discipline while it appears they are the only ones in the house at all, I suggest you go beyond the "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?" video and take a watch through his "Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f9R_UYrDc) before the cops have it taken down.
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(1) During the individual's lifetime;
...
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(1) A use of an aspect of an individual's persona in connection with any news, public affairs, sports broadcast, or account does not constitute a use for which consent is required under division (A) of this section.
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Bear in mind that Afroman is running for President.
Although Ohio Rev. Code § 2741.02(D)(1) is not exactly a model of crisp, clean statutory drafting, the videos pretty obviously are published in connection with a matter of news and public affairs, specifically Afroman's criticism of how the police went about doing their jobs.
Lawyers! Here's how to represent Donald Trump in twelve easy steps!
1. Sign the new client. Envision a cabinet appointment or a District Court Judge's bench. Feel very happy in your new elite status of Republican-ness.
2. Lose the respect of a high percentage of your peers and colleagues. Irritate a certain number of your clients who either dislike Trump intensely or who want matters resolved quietly -- some enough so that they will fire you and hire a different firm.
3. Be told unbelievable but initially unfalsifiable things by your client. Review a legal theory on memo from some as-yet-unknown-to-you Trump supporter with J.D. issued by Al's School of Law and Bowling Lanes for whom the client vouches enthusiastically. Repeat those things in already-pending court proceedings.
4. Learn those things the client told you weren't true. Seek clarification from your client. Learn that they not only weren't true, but the client is exactly as culpable of the problem as Twitter said he was.
5. Disclose the conflict of interest to your new client, ask for a meeting to prepare a new and different strategy to address the problem. Endure blistering anger and rage on phone with client.
6. Raise ethical issue with the ethics committee.
7. Get stiffed on your bill.
8. Raise payment issue with the management committee.
9. Get fired.
10. Put malpractice insurance carrier on notice of potential claim. Retain personal ethics counsel for anticipated bar complaint by now-former-client.
11. Get served with subpoena. Invoke privilege to resist subpoena. Fail because of the crime fraud exception.
12. Remove admissions certificate from wall of office, bring close to face. Kiss your license to practice law goodbye.
On “Death, Destruction As Tornadoes Rip Across Middle America”
Hey, 114° here in Portland was wa-a-a-a-ay back in 2021. Besides, they first reported it as 116°, so that shows you what THEY know! Anyway, all the forests burned up already way back in '20! All danger has passed!
Seriously, I heard there were fifty FEET of snow on the Sierra Nevadas this winter. Good for the drought? Maybe if California had better water retention infrastructure. Buckle up, it gets bumpy from here on out.
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 4/3/2023”
Well, she is a sitting member of the House of Representatives, which whether we like her or hate her, elevates her above some rando passing out pamphlets on the street corner or posting bizarre disconnected-from-reality screeds on social media.
On “A New Republican Candidate Just Announced.”
Huh. That's exactly what I thought it meant.
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 4/3/2023”
I believe I'm on record as saying that there should be a norm that any body of elected officials ought not take up new business in lame duck sessions. They should resolve old or pending business and respond to emergencies only, for the sake of respecting democracy.
But still, it's hard not to giggle a little bit when it's an ox I dislike that gets gored.
On “A New Republican Candidate Just Announced.”
Weren't Republicans supposed to have had a really deep farm team? Asa Hutchinson ain't it, my fellow Ordinarians.
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 4/3/2023”
Well, if what you're looking for are conventionally-attractive incumbent female heads of state or government from European nations, now that Sanna Marin will no longer be prime minister of Finland, let me point you to Maia Sandu of Moldova, Kaja Kallas of Estonia, or Katrín Jakobsdóttir of Iceland (who, IMHO, looks more than a little bit like Björk but that probably isn't very surprising and I still think Björk is good-looking too). If you're going to go beyond Europe, Jetsun Pema of Bhutan is strikingly attractive.
Personally, I think that I'm able to assemble such a list because a) all politics is becoming more visual since television, b) women are assuming more prominent roles in positions of power and influence in this phase of feminism (in nations hospitable to feminism), and c) I am in their general age group, which colors my subjective assessment of attractiveness.
I've little opinion of Ms. Marin's performance as her nation's head of state beyond noting that Finland is one of the wealthiest, and happiest, nations on earth although I'm not sure how much she had to do with that. Also I'm glad to welcome Finland into NATO, a decision with which Ms. Marin probably had much to do.
On “Between The Devil and The Deep Blue ChatGPT”
Bard (from Google/Alphabet) seems a lot smarter than ChatGPT. This may be a product of integrating web searches, but for whatever stew of reasons, its essays deal with requested ssubstance in ways that seem like actual responses from a person, and less like a generic essay from a high school senior who knows the rules of grammar but hadn't actually done the reading.
On “Former President Donald Trump Indicted By New York Grand Jury”
Welp.
This room used to have oxygen in it.
On “Disney, DeSantis, and The Sound of Lawyers Laughing, Perpetually”
There's another rule they don't teach in law school, but which a surprisingly high percentage of lawyers come across at one point or another in their practice. The rule is "Don't Eff With The Mouse."
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 3/27/2023”
As far as I can tell, Silver's model did work in 2022. Actual results were well within the margin of error of 538's Congressional forecast model, so I'ma saying his math mathed.
Silver's prowess as a pundit is no better nor any worse than any other left-of-center horse-race predictor. (Particularly when there isn't a horse race underway for him to talk about.)
"
[High-pitched cartoon voice] Hah hah! Don't Eff With The Mouse! [Trigger warning: clicking the link will produce a parody image of a cartoon figure making an obscene hand gesture.]
[Regular voice] In fact, the clause indicating that the agreement will last for the duration of the lifetime of the descendants of King Charles III of England plus 21 years is a master stroke of legal drafting -- it runs right up against the Rule Against Perpetuities, plus it guarantees that the revelation of the agreement will get lots of headlines. King Charles' youngest descendent is, I believe, Princess Lilibet, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who was born in 2021. (Also, the Royals tend to be rather long-lived.)
[High-pitched cartoon voice, making Mickey Mouse giggling noises]
On “Marriage is Good, Actually”
Weird that dudes making stern moral pronouncements and exhibiting performatively uncompassionate statements have difficulty attracting mates. I mean, it's so weird that women can't see how retro-stylish their fedoras really are!
"
Good luck is all I can say. And that we're all hoping it works out as well as it can.
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 3/27/2023”
If you can't do the time, be a lot more careful with your unfinished burritos:
And here I tell my clients that real life law enforcement isn't like what they see on CSI. I bet there was even techno music playing in the background while they tested the remains of the burrito for DNA in their spic-and-span clean state-of-the-art crime lab stuffed to the gills with Science! Stuff.
On “Of Drag Queens and Michelangelo’s David”
I agree with you, but a different viewer's mileage may vary from that.
"
It's the job of the public schools to fulfill their legislative mandates. It's up to us, the political decision-makers of a state, to tell the legislature what we mandate schools to do.
You can probably get a very emotionally-fraught argument started by simply asking a few questions about what it is schools are supposed to do right now. Is it...
Putting specific kinds of knowledge in the brains of students?
Providing adult supervision to students so as to free up the ability of parents to pursue employment?
Socializing students to be the kinds of consumers and citizens the state prefers they become?
Making students employable upon their attainment of adulthood?
Dispensing health and nutrition to students?
Providing employment to teachers and other staff?
Serving as a locus for community identity and activity?
...It's all of these and more, of course, but saying so out loud sometimes sounds like it's very very socialistic and we certainly can't have that, now can we?
"
Nah, I think Standards and Practices is a jazz duo. She (Standards) sings and solos on an EWI while he (Practices) sets the drum machine and plays piano. They're available for weddings, anniversary parties, bar mitzvahs, and retirement celebrations and have several CDs and downloadable setlists available for sale.
On “Marriage is Good, Actually”
Know that you have my sympathies and best wishes for the least-bad outcome here. This sounds like a really stressful and periodically painful situation for you. "Least bad outcome" likely means you get custody of the kids with some sort of visitation plan for your ex. It's not at all unrealistic to think that could be the outcome.
At the same time, I hope that if you're right about your ex, she gets professional help for her own situation, and that she can heal her relationship with her children.
"
Fair. In both perspectives, though, it's about women being unhappy with what marriage brings them. It's not about society being hard-wired to favor women's interests over mens'.
"
I recall looking into this ( with you?) a few mo ths ago and yes, that number is close to accurate. The real question is what meaning do we want to attach to it?
For my part, I don't believe that the vast bulk of either men or women enter into marriages in our culture for the purpose of economic advancement. Rather, I think they enter into marriage because they believe marriage will make both of the spouses happier. If it is women who are initiating most divorces, that sounds like marriage fails to meet their happiness expectations. Which sounds like women are making their men happy? But men are not making their women happy.
If so, that is a problem with and about men.
"
In my comment below I do not make as fine of a distinction with my nomenclature as finely as you do here. Can't say I've heard of the MGTOW phenomenon and to me it looks like MRA-Lite, and weighing the degree or flavor of the misogyny underlying either world view is not something I've done. And, I'll be honest, it's probably not something I'm ever going to do.
"
1. Divorce rates are declining, yes, but aren't marriage rates declining too? If fewer people (per capita) are getting married, that necessarily means that fewer people (per capita) will get divorced.
2. I was disappointed to read an article about a strain of anti-marriage sentiment on "the right" but not an exploration of what that line of thinking entails and what it signifies. A look at the link, and its second reply and follow up comment from the author make clear that what we're talking about are male rights activists, as evidenced by his belief that "women control family court." This is not a new sentiment within right-of-center circles, and it is deeply and solidly rooted in misogyny. Hopefully (and I hold this hope personally with confidence), it is unrepresentative of how most conservatives think.
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 3/20/2023”
"Lemon Pound Cake" is effing HILLARIOUS.
If you want to see even more exciting footage of cops wandering around Afroman's house unsuccessfully searching for marijuana and kidnapping victims, with guns drawn and exhibiting very poor trigger discipline while it appears they are the only ones in the house at all, I suggest you go beyond the "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?" video and take a watch through his "Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f9R_UYrDc) before the cops have it taken down.
The lawsuit alleges (among other things) violation of Ohio Rev. Code § 2741.02, which provides, in relevant part:
Bear in mind that Afroman is running for President.
Although Ohio Rev. Code § 2741.02(D)(1) is not exactly a model of crisp, clean statutory drafting, the videos pretty obviously are published in connection with a matter of news and public affairs, specifically Afroman's criticism of how the police went about doing their jobs.
"
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On “Bad News for Trump But No Arrest (Yet)”
Lawyers! Here's how to represent Donald Trump in twelve easy steps!
1. Sign the new client. Envision a cabinet appointment or a District Court Judge's bench. Feel very happy in your new elite status of Republican-ness.
2. Lose the respect of a high percentage of your peers and colleagues. Irritate a certain number of your clients who either dislike Trump intensely or who want matters resolved quietly -- some enough so that they will fire you and hire a different firm.
3. Be told unbelievable but initially unfalsifiable things by your client. Review a legal theory on memo from some as-yet-unknown-to-you Trump supporter with J.D. issued by Al's School of Law and Bowling Lanes for whom the client vouches enthusiastically. Repeat those things in already-pending court proceedings.
4. Learn those things the client told you weren't true. Seek clarification from your client. Learn that they not only weren't true, but the client is exactly as culpable of the problem as Twitter said he was.
5. Disclose the conflict of interest to your new client, ask for a meeting to prepare a new and different strategy to address the problem. Endure blistering anger and rage on phone with client.
6. Raise ethical issue with the ethics committee.
7. Get stiffed on your bill.
8. Raise payment issue with the management committee.
9. Get fired.
10. Put malpractice insurance carrier on notice of potential claim. Retain personal ethics counsel for anticipated bar complaint by now-former-client.
11. Get served with subpoena. Invoke privilege to resist subpoena. Fail because of the crime fraud exception.
12. Remove admissions certificate from wall of office, bring close to face. Kiss your license to practice law goodbye.