welllll cars were way, way lighter in the 80s. like, 1000 lbs + lighter, in many cases. so 500 hp in a 4,000lb sedan is gonna be damn quick, but not full-on ludicrous like it would be if it were in a 3,000lb car.

And I agree with the larger point, I just think the inclusion of Trayvon Martin here detracts from it as to me it seems included more for name recognition than for actual relevance.

Oh PUH-LEASE. There is like ZERO legitimacy to a "watch captains" oath. Zimmerman disobeyed dispatchers orders to leave it alone and let the cops handle it and went after the kid.

The looting occurred away from the protest, by a group of people who were not participants.

two different nights. two different groups of people. looting on first night in different part of town. none on second when most of this shit went down.

"America Is Not For Black People" I've never heard it put that way before. Its right on. Unfortunately when the changeover comes, and it will come, today's oppressors will reap what they have sewn. There is a kind of karma balance to this, but it does not really help humanity advance, improve and generally stop…

The police were certainly complicit in letting his killer walk free.

I'm sorry - are you referring to the kid or the cop? Because that kid sure got that exact treatment from a cop with a gun.

And the media is complicit in this also. All the people who showed up at Ted Bundy's ranch with guns blazing were called "supporters" and the protestors in Ferguson were referred to as an "angry mob" on Saturday, 24 whole hours before any kind of looting started. Sometimes it all just seems so hopeless, and feels like…

You'll like this, then: http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com/

There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys. Guns aren't for black people, either.

it's really that black people are asserting their rights/space/dignity like white people. It's just that an entire swath of white America isn't ready for a post racial society.

The black community's best bet is to take full advantage of the 2nd Amendment. If your state has concealed carry, abuse the fuck out of it. Don't leave your house without a gun. Fight fire with fire here.

Being from ABQ I feel comfortable saying that this is a POLICE ISSUE. Not a race issue. Militarization of police forces is getting out of hand.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

You can always count on fox to give both sides of the story, especially if one "side" is completely fucking indefensible.

That's going to be a very unfortunate thread running through this story. Yes, Christy Mack is a porn star who has some rough sex sometimes. I've seen it. That doesn't excuse anything that happened to her though. But we're going to have people crawling out of the woodwork to discuss her occupation, as if being a nun…

What pisses me off is Fox News calling her a "Porn Star" in a way that makes you feel like they're saying "It's okay, she's a whore anyway" like anyone deserves this.

Haha, this actually disproves it was murder.