The important insight I got from the rabbi was, no one has to tell you to love and take care of your own kids, your sister, and your cousin, the reason every religious text talks about how you treat the stranger is, that’s what’s gonna be on the test.

Mr Plow is a loser and I think he is a boozer.

16/ Imm courts are already packed well beyond capacity & take yrs to issue final orders. Of course they'll subvert & even shred due process but it is our sworn duty as lawyers to put ourselves between the shredder & our clients. "lol RIP due process" ain't it, friends. Fight or get out of the way

The first couple of days are great - especially if you get the good pain drugs. But it gets pretty boring pretty quickly, and all the work and stuff is there when you get back, you're just more behind.

You really want something minor that calls for about 2 days and morphine.

This post, more than any other, perfectly captures the way that reality has felt unmoored this past week.

Is it your contention that the Washington Post, NY Times, etc. are "truth-tellers"?

I would argue that they have failed to perform that function for at least the last 10 years - feeding panics and bigotry free of fact and failing to report at all on some of the most important facts of our time.

"When God gives you lemons, you find a new God!" - Powerthirst