that Ann Althouse is teaching law. If this is her attitude toward young women, her classes have got to be cathouse central.

It doesn't quite smell like victory, but it comes close.

Between wanting to be a hero and wanting a life that looks exotic and exciting. Heroes are folks who try to do the right thing regardless of whether it's going to be very fun, and regardless of whether anyone's going to pat them on the back later. LW, on the other hand, wants to live a glamorous life and fuck beautiful women. That's hardly bravery and sacrifice, buddy -- that's Walter Mitty territory.

more than a vacation. So take a break. Resist the pressure from friends and colleagues to come up with a great big exciting travel or entertainment plan for your break. Just take a break. Don't impose an itinerary or schedule on it. See what happens.

Nixon invented the Southern Strategy, and it was the federal courts that desegregated the schools, not the Nixon administration. You may be able to rehabilitate him on other points, but you can't seriously make Nixon into a hero of race relations.

who read Caitlin Flanagan's overwrought reflections on the word "please" engraved in the face of the receptacle for used sanitary napkins in a high school girls' bathroom and thought it was probably carved there by the JANITOR (or someone else who was tired of cleaning up in there)? I mean seriously.

Or at least not uniquely creepy. In the english-speaking horse business, after all, it's still common to call an unbred mare a "maiden," which is just an antiquated way of calling her a virgin.

@Amerigo, in the horse racing biz, a maiden is a horse that hasn't raced yet. In the horse breeding biz, a maiden is a mare that hasn't been bred yet.

A filly isn't a virgin mare-- it's a female horse under the age of four years (just like a colt is a male horse under four years). And a gelding isn't a "revirginized" male horse -- it's a male horse that's had its nuts removed.

. . . a stallion's an adult male horse who still has his nuts, whether or not he's ever been bred.

Brilliant post.

I've worked in a billable hour environment, and it encourages attorneys to do more work, but not necessarily to take more time on each particular task. For one thing, the clients often are quite sophisticated and will know better than to pay an attorney to spend more time on a task than the task warrants. (In fact, the clients often don't want to pay for a reasonable amount of time either, but that's another issue). Clients also will balk at paying attorneys to do tasks that the clients think could be handled by a less expensive associate or by a paralegal.

I had no problem seeing the sympathy in Kate's post. But then again, I'm not a troll.

Were very useful. Thank you.

As for Poco, where to start? Let's start here -- we should shame and ostracize teen parents in order to punish them because teen parents' children's lives will be bad? Yeah, that'll make the children's lives soooooo much better.

Better trolls, please.

with the older crowd, I'd think, is they tend not to think in terms of needing contraception, so they don't think about the condoms as much. Another issue that one of the studies on this subject pointed out is that the higher ratio of women to men as we get older means that there are older guys out there getting action from multiple female partners. Good news for you guys who are wondering how life's gonna be in the old folks' home, but it's a perfect vector for spreading STIs.

Good news, though, about more and better sex. Always nice to have something to look forward to.

They're cheap, they're noninvasive, they're easy to use, they reduce the risk of STIs, they don't have adverse health effects, and they're easy to carry around. If you're a guy, using one of these handy little things every time you have sex is going to reduce, by about 99 percent, the likelihood that you'll ever get dunned for child support. Why all men don't use them as a matter of course is something I'll never understand.

I'm sure I'd have been the most autistic kid ever. When I was a child in the '60s and early '70s, my family spent a lot of time in Southeast Asia because of my dad's job, and I got vaccinated for stuff most Americans haven't even heard of. You should see my vaccination records -- and that was back in the day when everything had thimerosal in it. In fact, that was back in the day when thimerosal was marketed over the counter as a topical antiseptic -- anybody remember Merthiolate? Jeez. Every time my brother and I skinned a knee, mom was out there with the merthiolate, dousing our little bodies with it. You'd think if it was going to cause autism, it would have happened to me or my brother.

Though he never married, Nietszche probably did have sex, most notably with Lou Salome, and some speculate that his decline into mental illness was due to end-stage syphilis. Immanuel Kant, on the other hand, most assuredly never did -- not even with himself, since he apparently considered masturbation to be one of the worst forms of personal defilement. Even worse than suicide.