...and not sure about Mesa, AZ, but many cops aren’t allowed to carry them. I’m in SF, and people wonder why cops here don’t use Tazers, when we voted to make sure they couldn’t have them. Their overuse, especially given SF’s issue with the mentally ill, indicated to voters cops would be too quick to pull them,…

...and the problem with “conservatism” in this country is that every change is heard by them as an insult. The idea that maybe we can take a small insignificant step to not make “KKK” show up in big letters on a wall in a public space ought to be something we shrug off — hey sure I can understand that — not a dog…

Also: wondering why TF “KKK” is hanging at a baseball game is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially for a fan in Atlanta, given their racist past and, in the baseball world particularly, present.

backwards Ks when a batter is caught looking are awesome.

Flipside: the swastika had a millennia-plus-strong run as a symbol of peace and friendship etc., but we don’t really slap them on architecture and clothing anymore for very good reason...

Because, as I already said pretty clearly, the bad thing was done at very high levels over many years for the sake of a football team. Penn State administration literally decided that the rape of children wasn’t as important as the football team. Full stop. The school president, the school vice president, and the…

Everyone else is welcome to do the same. And CLE had the league’s highest payroll last year. And it’s not like big-name free agents are joining the Warriors this year, or hell except for Durant no big-name talent was added in any year of this run, they’re just paying their own guys.

in San Francisco, the buses do it on purpose and completely block the intersections, which is fun

...except that guy is still playing that guitar live, though. That’s what the Engl half stack right there is.

Except monitors are a thing that exist, both on stage and in-ear.

I don’t go to concerts to see someone mouth words over a track.

Some dude at the Super Bowl halftime (actually, it was some country-rock hearththrob wannabe guy, not Gaga, so maybe it was a conference final) this year didn’t even have anything in his output jack. They could at least fake it.

Without lip-syncing, pop music would not be pop music as we have come to know and love it.

When it starts happening to White people. That is always the answer.

Do you live in the United States and know American history? Do you still live here? Because according to your screeds, you can’t know something bad about an institution and still support it.

separate an incident involving a a relatively few, high-powered people abusing their powers to further their lives with a community of students, teachers, and staff just trying to make a life

I guess instead, I’ll remember next time I wear a penn state shirt that it means I’m an evil person

Lol dumbass, no, when a college spends decades intentionally covering up the systemic rape of children, 100% of everyone ever associated with it needs to share in that embarrassment. There is no disassociation between the institution and the acts: it was an institutional cover-up. Wearing Penn State gear out in public…

Shocker: CA has been that way for decades. Sensible.

Here’s the thing, dummy: the business owner could have been lied to. It happens all the time. He probably has all the paperwork, completed accurately to the best of his knowledge.

But put yourself in the worker’s shoes (which is super hard for you, but bear with me). You’re young, unskilled mostly, in a country that’s…