Maybe that's because many Jews can actually apply themselves unlike sorry sadsack losers like you. Think where you could be if you'd spent the time it takes to make up conspiracy theories writing your master's thesis!

And AtLiberty, maybe "some of your best friends are" but you're still a fucking ignorant bigot. Get a clue.

Anyone else reminded of the episode of Dr. Katz where he brings his guitar to work on a nostalgia trip?

"Come on, just once, say 'I'm Koppleman, he's Katz.'"

...for the English language and womankind when the word "boobs" appears in a serious write-up on a news site.

Anyhow, I'll have to remember this one the next time this one friend of mine nags me to move to North Dakota because he thinks it's some kind of utopia. He doesn't understand my reluctance to join him out there with the prairie dogs. "There are tons of jobs here!" Yeah, dude, because no one wants to LIVE there! In the state where "Swedish" is the biggest ethnic minority.

(Thanks, I'll be here all week.)

If you think that it's at all likely Freeman waited until the girl was grown up, let alone legal, before inappropriateness started you must have been born yesterday. He may have waited until she was legal for the sexual aspect, but grooming and conditioning can go on for years before that. And a man who cannot stop himself from having an "affair" with his granddaughter even though he knows what it will cost him in terms of money, career, and family damage is a man acting compulsively and irrationally. He's sick.

1. Defer your admission until next fall. This will give you time to think without taking law school off the table.

2. Sign up for the income dependent repayment plan on your federal loans. This is a new law just signed in by our democratic congress and Obama and will make repayment a lot easier for you in the time being.

3. If your loans are mostly private but you have a couple of federals, consolidate them all into one big federal loan. It's just a better deal in so many ways. Consolidation will make them much easier to keep track of and manage.

4. Get some kind of basic, practical full-time job and see how it goes. Something that isn't miserable, but isn't necessarily glamorous either, just a normal job.

5. Save if you can.

Then at the end of a year you will be in a relatively decent place to make a decision. Can the stuff about "night life" and writing though, those are just escapist fantasies in your case I would guess.

1. Kids who are saying "your body is gross" need a good old fashioned shaming from the parents and perhaps an ass-whupping from their peers. There is no excuse for that bullshit.

2. At the adolescent stage, young people should be doing the hard work of forming their own identities. They typically do this through trial and error, trying on hats and taking them off again. Image consultants can only hinder this process. Their whole purpose is to lead people into believing someone is something they are not, to trick people into believing in a mirage. Bad idea.

I like being married too but honestly I did not want to know about what kind of sex you have, where you have it, or the details of that one time a week ago or whatever. It's a cliche, perhaps, but "is nothing sacred"? It's gauche and cheap to blab about "conquests" even or perhaps especially when the other party is your spouse.

And the LW sounds just like an addict to me. A lot of addicts have real pain, even if they are not addicted to pain pills. That doesn't mean they aren't behaving irrationally and being difficult to live with.

I can't imagine saying to anyone even in what I thought was private, "I don't miss him." Seems...mean, even if it's true. It would naturally cause the third party to speculate on the health of our marriage, or whether my husband is a good spouse or not. Seems like a nasty or at least thoughtless thing to say even if the sentiment isn't itself nasty.

I don't think the email thing is a big deal at all. We both know each other's passwords and so forth and don't hesitate to take a peek ie, he looks to see if my direct deposit confirmation has come in so we can decide to meet downtown for lunch or for me to come home, I check to see if he's gotten any bites for the resume. Since we don't have secrets from each other it's as benign as flipping through whatever book the other one has out from the library or looking at the kitchen calendar.

He strikes me the same as a lot of highly educated people I know, basically agnostic with maybe a "spiritual side" but no strict, literalistic type of beliefs. I don't think there's anything at all wrong with this, but he's wise to downplay it for the sake of politics, and part of being a good leader is being responsive to what the majority of your people value, in this case organized religion.