Excellent questions, one and all. And I sincerely hope that the ACLU is using them, and more, to prepare a legal case that will tear strips off every official in the Great Barrington PD participating in this action.

Her facts threatened the narrative... the feelings, if you will... of the right-wing supporters. Therefore, she must be silenced.

Agreed. It would be very interesting to get this guy, along with all the other wealthy country-music stars who fake such origins, to explain what, exactly, it is about ‘small towns’ that they so adore.

It’s the line they’ve been trained to parrot, reinforced by their parents and grandparents. Never mind that small towns are more likely to die off completely when either the water, the ‘mine’ or the land’s fertility runs out, or if the entire populace dies off from some disease for which the ‘old country doctor’ has…

Soda:
I’m a vile heretic to begin with; my soda of choice is 50/50 Cherry Coke and Mountain Dew, so you can imagine how rarely I can get that from a single location.
As far as ‘name brand vs generic sodapop’ goes, I reiterate my heretic stance based on how infrequently Big Soda (Big Pop?) really lets themselves…

I’m not worried about Don-John Two-Scoops personally. I’m vastly more concerned with his enablers and puppeteers who’ve used him to advance their own schemes.
Stephen Miller has the political savvy of a rabid goat, but he has lots of supporters. Mitch McConnell is the stereotypical ‘back-room dealer’ who’s been in…

My money is certainly on ‘an ugly mess’ to describe the next four to six months, no matter who wins in November, let alone whether the Redcap In Chief survives his infection.
Having said that, I don’t think that it will degenerate into an across-the-board civil war. The alt-right idiots clamoring for such can’t…

Assuming that he can get off WH property without getting caught by the New York State Police. Who, of course, have all kinds of advance notice about when he’ll leave and where he’ll start from.
And his ego will absolutely forbid him from taking appropriate steps to ‘get away clean’, because it would still make him look…

Fortunately, a Federal-level pardon does NOT clear him from facing state-level charges. So even if he scoots out the back door with Secret Service escort to the WH property-line, he can’t get past the New York State Police who’ll (hopefully) await him on the other side.

“I went to Latveria and all I got was this armored tee shirt...”

Hey, leave The Last Starfighter out of this. It was a classic of Nerd-American cinema, celebrated cultural integration of disparate species, and the villain was a white guy.

I’m happy to take your word for it, given the sort of foolishness spewed by the Redcap in Chief every waking hour. But I suppose that they wouldn’t be white supremacists if they didn’t whine inarticulately about how every non-cis-het-male-Caucasian-Protestant is somehow both objectively inferior to the White Saviors…

So, what other responses are possible? Can this evidence package go to some higher authority as the basis of any kind of legal action, like systemic bias or wide scale discrimination? What about a full review of the training materials and processes used in the academies responsible for these officers? And what can be…

I think that even the survey methodology and underlying assumptions about the entire transgender issue is in the procesz of being refined. Rather a lot. Still, the more transgender kids survive into adulthood, the more can actually get into STEM careers... As well as sociology and psychology. That is one way to help…

I’m just bitterly amused by how often Half Scoop talks about “the family”. Gee, I wonder where a New Yorker picked up that little quirk?

I’ve started calling him the “Redcap in Chief” anytime I see a photo of him in that asinine MAGA hat. Except for the facts that he’s of German descent and has stubby fingers, he has more than earned that title. Redcaps tended to murder unwary travelers seeking shelter in abandoned castles, rob them, and dip their caps…

Do you have any recommendations for well-written sex scenes, regardless of the author’s sex/ gender/ orientation? My Google-fu needs work with this query...

Please be aware that you might somehow attract the attention of the most wondrous ‘mythical” creature of all: the female D&D player, who will be able to supply you with _dozens_ of alternative creatures, in and out of public domain.

It’s pretty conclusive evidence of just how sick and twisted organized religion can become.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), it’s possible that the nutbar “Christians” local to your area just haven’t been able to buy stacks of Chick Tracts. They’re supposed to be distributed by just leaving them in places where “non-believers” will find them. Like an Easter Egg hunt that never…