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Nothing’s worse than being with a group of drunk people when you’re sober.
Summer in Kansas would give hell a run for its money. In more ways than one.
She has three things seemingly lost in this world of social-media outrage: perspective, nuance, and empathy.
“Often, those who seem like we should trust them, seem like they are leaders we should follow, are anything but.”
Shit rolls downhill. The expression, which started in the military, is true.
In law school they teach you that there are several definitions of legal insanity or “non compos mentis,” the Latin phrase Ryan’s criminal law professor favored. There’s the M’Naghten rule, the Irresistible Impulse test, the Durham rule, and the Model Penal Code test. But the true definition of insanity is driving more than twelve hours from London to the south of France when you’re six-four in a Mini Cooper.

