School says she regularly uses phone with students. She said that was bullshit.

Re -read the article. She did not allow him to do anything. She left the phone on her desk, left the room for a few minutes, and he decided to be an evil little prick.

I am betting it was a gun show. No background checks there. And No waiting.

Not anymore anyway.

I am pretty sure that actually happened too. I agree that what you are describing is much work. I just consider it part of an overall phenomenon.

Honestly you could say the same thing about blue collar white people who consistently support republican agendas that are counter to their own interests. In the end the world is just full of dumb people.

Its about the consequences of being wrong. If they ban him and a trial vindicates him, they just have to say they were sorry and let him back on campus. If the do not ban him and they were wrong, then they have allowed a sexual predator to walk around campus.

What is the calculus that makes one think losing a job in a grocery store and being turned down constitute a ruined life? The kind of calculus that blames your victim. dumbass.

I think it means physically capable, not mentally capable or willing. Still generalizing but less so.

No election. It was the election commission. Which is run by a board of people appointed by members of each party. Just like the federal election commission. The commissions are designed to have equal numbers of both parties. This guy is not a career politician and now will not be. He just could not justify his…

All election commissions have appointed members. The Speaker Beth Harwell is the one who supposedly asked him to step down. The expenditures thing was a legitimate reason for that even before the bitch comment.

Uh yeah it probably would. But it would probably not be a “this is an inappropriate thing to say” campaign but more likely a “see women get away with it” campaign. Even if Buchannan did not use a gendered insult, he behaved badly enough to be called an asshole. That is gender neutral at least.

No kidding, how slow were those alibi witnesses talking? What font did they use?

I am thoroughly impressed at how you have managed to avoid so much of the star wars lore even without having watched the movies. Our culture is so full of references that are hard to avoid. Honestly, you should try watching the movies. It is worth it.

assuming the biological parents want that child.

To be fair, I think that this is not what most pro-lifers think. Many legitimately believe that a fetus is a person and view themselves as standing up for a powerless person’s rights. They are of course wrong, a baby is a person, a fetus is a body part. But with our level of science education high religiosity, reason…

Well I am sure “duty” has a lot of interpretations. I was mostly thinking of in a constitutional sense. Those are the only two things asked of a citizen in the constitution. That said, voting is not mandatory, although jury duty is. I suppose I can see your reasoning if you do not trust yourself. And I can certainly…

Well that escalated. Pointing out that they don’t use voter registration here was just an observation.

So of the only two responsibilities of American citizenship, jury duty and voting, you do neither?? That seems awful.

The thing is I bet the confidential nature of jury deliberations makes it hard to figure out if your experience is typical. I would guess that each jury is different. In your case, as awful as the process was for you, it sounds like the system worked.