HotforLogic
HotforLogic
HotforLogic

CA had to do something. Their incarceration rate is the highest in the country because they’d passed the insane 3-strikes law, which sent people to prison for life for misdemeanors. (Two felony convictions meant that any third offense, including jaywalking, would send you back permanently.) Having a criminal record

Clinton’s rhythm is off. She can settle into a flow for a while, but then becomes uncomfortable pausing it for applause. Every single applause break in her acceptance speech could have gone on for at least twice the time without seeming to milk it, but she’d interrupt the audience to get to the next point. And since

Child abuse causes serious and lasting injury to a person; that’s not a debate. And some instances of abuse span generations; my family history is one of intergenerational violence. But statistically, past abuse is at best one risk factor for becoming an abuser. A mere one in ten sexually abused boys go on to become

Thank you for the work you do.

Yes, you did say that it’s no excuse. I wanted to push on your use of the common “parental behavior damning the kids” portion because it unintentionally reinforces the stigma of child abuse survivors by advancing the narrative that abuse causes irreparable and inescapable moral delinquency. It makes it harder for

Meh. My grandfather was a psychotic predator who was grooming my uncle to be his serial-raping, domestic battering protégé. That uncle now basically lives under a bridge, but to my knowledge has chosen not to follow his rape training in his adult life. This shitstain gets zero excuses.

I am endlessly amused by “a few bad apples” as some sort of defense for this shit. It’s like the utterors forget the rest of that phrase, and that the saying is a botanical fact. Bruised apples release a ripening agent (like banana skins do) that overripens the surrounding fruit, turning your entire bushel into

At least one reason college has become more and more expensive is because it has become less and less funded by the government. State and federal tax subsidies were in place up through the nineties, and have been chipped away for the last sixteen years. In their place, the Feds reworked the student loan program to

People lie, the sample sizes are way too small, and control groups are basically impossible to maintain. It’s utter madness. No wonder nutrition research doesn’t converge. Because what they need is population studies, like when the FDA decides that fats are bad because they are implicated in heart disease, and so

It varies state by state. Some states allow no-fault divorces, some states still demand one party be found to have caused dissolution. Some states are communal property where each is entitled to 50%, others have more convoluted ideas. No state I know has wholly done away with fault in divorce. I don’t find cheating to

IKR? If cheating is such a deal breaker for you in a relationship, get the evidence, clean them out in the courts and walk away. Marriage licenses don’t give one ownership of the spouse’s body or sexuality. Betrayal doesn’t give one the right to terrorize the spouse with threats of violence and destruction of

I mean the wife part, sure, makes total sense...

Thank you for articulating what I dislike so much about the gymnastics dancing. They do treat the dance elements as cute affectations instead of purposeful movements of their bodies. My alliegance is to dance, so I’ve been utterly turned off the sport by watching them mimic it for 5 sec at a time. Which is a shame,

Holy shit she ended it with a couple foutettés! I see what you mean about the clunkiness of the flow. Some of the just walking around with her arms didn’t help, but it also reminded me of Eastern European folk dancing.

I’m happy to hear there is a tradition of aesthetically appealing routines, and hopefully this is part of a rebirth. I know ballet’s popularity took a hit with the loss of the USSR rivalry but it seems to be coming back in a big way. Fingers crossed!

She’s the first gymnast I’ve ever seen who actually integrates the dance and tumbling portions of her routine. Doesn’t cost her one watt of power.

The Boston Globe article was very short on details. The guys were trying to appeal to a largely defunct section of common law that said “reckless behavior” was not criminal, therefore their convictions for reckless assault did not meet the federal standards for having their right to gun ownership revoked.

And another huzzah!

It may also have had something to do with the victim’s willingness to testify. As I was following the Turner case, I was at first thankful that at least CA has “yes means yes.” Only to realize that what that really meant for Emily Doe was having to sit through a court battle on whether or not she really had wanted it,

Ativan and alcohol make you weak-kneed and open to suggestion, not crazy. In fact, combining the two has such a mellowing effect that one risks suffocating from having the respiratory muscles become too lax. Source: college.