The Swamp

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:34 am I've been awake for 45 minutes and am already sick to death of all the "clever" and "hilarious" April Fool's gags I've seen.

From Facebook friends claiming that it's their birthday to Tottenham Hotspur being sold to Robert Kraft's company to McDonalds' new pickle burger... the frivolity must end.

Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:54 am There's no way to try to make someone feel better about their ping pong game by telling them that they shouldn't be measuring themselves to you without somehow making it worse.

rass wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:52 pm Best a could do was “J.ee.t.ing loudly” and not sure that means what it sounds like.

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:54 pm

rass wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:52 pm Best a could do was “J.ee.t.ing loudly” and not sure that means what it sounds like.

I think it would be similar to J.o.rd.a.n.ing loudly, which is where you tarnish your career by hanging on too long and being a bad executive.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:00 am There's no more annoying phrase to me right now than "live your truth." It's such a basic bitch thing to say.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:24 pm

Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:00 am There's no more annoying phrase to me right now than "live your truth." It's such a basic bitch thing to say.

"You do you."

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:56 pm "History will not be kind to..."

As if people who are shameless pigs right now give a fuck about their legacy in the political spectrum.

It's just something whiners say when they're getting shafted to make themselves feel better.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:56 pm "History will not be kind to..."

As if people who are shameless pigs right now give a fuck about their legacy in the political spectrum.

It's just something whiners say when they're getting shafted to make themselves feel better.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 7:58 am Liberal equivalent of "has to answer to God".

Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:47 am My home, undefeated ping pong streak was snapped after 3 months Friday night. My victor was completely indifferent about it. A cauldron of apathy. Not even a fist pump. Kinda made it so much worse.

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:58 am WLU feels strongly about the ping pong/table tennis debate.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:23 am I think the algorithm is based on days, so if you type lawnmower into a google search 30 straight days, on the 30th day it assumes you're making a purchase and stops the ads. If you miss a day, it restarts from scratch.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:52 pm Shared computer, buddy? : (

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 1:07 pm Based on my empirical data from lawnmowers, clearly you have recently cheated on your wife.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:49 pm I have been seeing a lot of Ashley Madison ads lately.

And no, I haven't been surfing porn.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:14 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:49 pm I have been seeing a lot of Ashley Madison ads lately.

And no, I haven't been surfing porn.

Ashley Madison is still around?

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:28 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:14 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:49 pm I have been seeing a lot of Ashley Madison ads lately.

And no, I haven't been surfing porn.

Ashley Madison is still around?

Apparently so.

And by the looks of the ads, the women there are unbelievably hot!!!!

SF Chronicle wrote:A person famous for being famous says she has figured out a way to become a lawyer without attending law school.

Kim Kardashian West, the TV personality best known for publicizing herself, announced in a recent interview with Vogue that she will become a legal apprentice with #cut50, an Oakland-based organization working for prison reform. The TV figure said she already can do criminal law “in my sleep” and plans to study at home and take the bar exam in three years.

“The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds,” West told the magazine.

Alex Gudich, a spokesman for #cut50, said the apprenticeship will be in conjunction with “some of the real work we do.”

“We are excited to work with (West) as she she pursues her apprenticeship,” #cut50 said in a statement. “Like everyone on our team, (West) cares deeply about people negatively impacted by the criminal justice system.”

California is one of four states that allow legal apprentices to become lawyers without attending law school, if they are able to pass the bar exam. In California, legal apprentices must work 18 hours a week at a law office, study at home and take the notoriously difficult “baby bar exam” after the first year of apprenticeship to be allowed to continue. That exam requires applicants to craft complex legal analyses of four cases, typically running dozens of pages.

West’s last classroom experience was a brief period at a community college in Los Angeles before she dropped out.

Gudich said West would be following the “standard bar protocol and processes for the apprenticeship program.” It was not immediately clear how West’s current career would affect her ability to spend the required time in the Oakland office as well as hitting the books.

At #cut50, whose name refers to a goal of cutting prison sentences in 50 states, West will be working alongside and under the tutelage of Van Jones, a CNN pundit and former adviser to President Barack Obama, and #cut50’s Jessica Jackson, a former Mill Valley mayor. West will be their first formal apprentice.

As an advocate for reform, West is best known for meeting last spring with President Trump to request clemency for Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother serving a life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses. The case was championed by #cut50. A week later, Trump granted the request.

Jones called West’s intervention in Johnson’s case “the most effective, emotionally intelligent intervention that I’ve ever seen in American politics.” Not every political expert agreed.

In addition to conferring with fellow reality show veteran Trump, West is known for modeling, for selling cosmetics, for making a sex tape, for being married to musician Kanye West and for being robbed at gunpoint in Paris.

The apprenticeship route to a legal career is usually chosen by those seeking to save on the average $150,000 tuition for three years of law school. West, said to be worth $350 million, would presumably not be in that category.

In California, 3 out of every 5 people who attended law school before taking the bar exam flunk the test. The success rate for the few legal apprentices who take the exam is believed to be even lower. A spokesman for the State Bar of California did not have statistics for that.

If West passes the bar exam, she would join Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson among apprentices who became lawyers without going to law school. If she flunks, she would not.