Bought and Paid For

As I digested the latest reporting on Supreme Court Justices receiving expensive gifts and trips from parties that have cases before the Court, I was reminded of the second-most-common conversation I’ve had over the nine years I’ve spent writing about gear professionally. The most common conversation is, unsurprisingly, the one that starts with “Oh man, you must get so much free gear, that’s so cool, do you want to hire me so that I can get free gear and also maybe write