Just like Castro, I suppose. Or is it Coates?

Quite frankly, I’m dismayed that people will be discouraged from doing the right thing because it’s somehow their fault if the police fuck up.

So Castro finds freedom indispensable?

Coates is opposed to racism, just as Castro is opposed to freedom? Checks out.

But don’t vilify people who believe in an afterlife. I have zero doubt that you will see your dad again in some capacity. Also that he is in a different place. Zero doubt.

Yikes, never saw that.

Can someone please explain “come get your friends”? It makes no sense to me, and Urban Dictionary is no help.

Jewel is famous for approaching grammar and word choice with casualty.

Nixon tired to have somebody from the NY Times killed

Also, it’s Nürnberg.

Do you know of a better alternative?

He’s not getting off under any circumstance barring intervention by Herr trump himself, and the extent that they don’t have the right laws on the books to convict him of rape in the fake porn cases and he skates light on that - they’re already working on changing the laws.

My only argument has been that the characterization of Hickey - or *any* potential real life villain as a single minded evil person is essentially always incorrect. The real world is messy, the people in it are messy. Our heroes aren’t as heroic as we think, the villains aren’t as villainous, and the good old…

Maybe instead of hugging them, you could help them with their severe mental illness.

I thought the claim was that the prison conditions issue isn’t being as effectively championed as the death penalty issue. I’ve certainly heard way more about the latter issue than the former.

I don’t see why you think that puts Bowie in a better light. On the contrary, it puts the ’70s in a terrible light.

I did read the article. I didn’t think much of it. It leaned on unpersuasive rhetorical questions, repeatedly confused different issues with each other, and never bothered to offer the slightest reason for doubting the seemingly obvious truth that it’s rape for an adult to have sex with a child.

That’s gross if true

“Rudyard Kipling was a racist so all his writing is crap!” By the standards of his day, Kipling was very progressive. It’s useless to dismiss his body of work based on present-day thought.

This is what constitutes as “news” these days.