Here’s the thing everyone always overlooks when they start worrying about “false accusations.” Yes, false accusations about sexual misconduct happen. They happen at roughly the same rate as false accusations for virtually every other type of crime, i.e. incredibly rarely. Borderline statistically insignificant.

Peeking my head out to say that Title IX placing the responsibility of sexual assault adjudication on colleges does more harm than good.

Remember when Barack was President and we didn’t have to worry about who anyone was fucking and what porn they were watching?

At least Miles is not a clone. Or a Mephisto/loki trick. 

Is the portrayal only okay if it pisses off Gamergaters and other assorted knuckle-draggers? The implication seems to be that the way these assholes react to [insert whatever content here] is what gets to determine its quality or value. That’s giving them a hell of a lot of power they don’t really deserve.

They know this is exactly the type of 911 call showing up on national news these past few weeks, and they’re acting accordingly. You could be cynical about that and I wouldn’t blame you, but I’m encouraged by it.

That’s what she said

If police officers were smart, and if they were willing and able to respect people’s civil rights, they’d always welcome cameras while doing their jobs. Any cop who tells people to stop recording them is a cop who considers it at least possible (if not probable) that s/he is going to do something of which s/he doesn’t…

I was actually surprised at how aware he was that Mulaney was just doing this for comedy purposes (saying that Mulaney was conflating stories for his act). I’d expected more of the insane reaction John Oliver tends to get. That he is annoyed but still seems to get what Mulaney was doing is a bit of nuance in a world…

More like Pooperintendent amirite

SHS’s eye just rolled that last 23 degrees into oblivion trying to figure out what the fuck to say at the podium tomorrow.

The only way this could get better is if by some cosmic twist one of those republican forced burial anti-abortion laws allowed the fetal remains to exhumed and DNA tested and proved categorically Trump was the father.

Dude, I know. As I understand it the defense lawyer’s argument was that Crouch’s parents had essentially ruined him by always insulating him from the consequences of his actions ... and her reaction was to keep up the lack of consequences? If I was the judge I would’ve been like, “Good point. Guess it’s up to me and…

Well actually...

Hey you,

Hi Michael,

yes this is a much healthier attitude than an ongoing comedic series about his progress

How dare his legions of fans dare speak their desires that he finish the story he began?

Guy was an o-line coach, of course he moved folks out of the way for the benefit of the team.

It’s overwhelmingly sad that teachers have to become bodyguards at schools.