No, because southern cities and public venues already tried that exact tactic to prevent civil rights marches and other events from being held by demanding that civil rights groups pay for the added cost of security for protecting them from counter-protesters. Federal courts have generally struck down such demands to…

I don’t know because I’ve only played a fraction of them. I will say that here’s a quote from a recent review of a new game called Colonial Twilight, which is about the Algerian War of Independence:

You know there are already board games and computer games covering the vast majority of topics she listed, right?

There are games — both boardgames and computer games — covering almost every single one of those subjects. Board Game Geek lists thousands of World War II board games alone: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1049/world-war-ii

It’s the identical thing from any logically consistent non-racist standpoint; you just pretend that it isn’t.

I think this won’t work, but that’s mostly because the protest isn’t directed at the right party. The NFL doesn’t employ the players, specific teams do. Kaepernick isn’t going to get hired by “the NFL,” he has to get hired by a specific team. Boycotting the NFL doesn’t put pressure on any particular team to hire…

While notifying affected voters would be nice, I’m not particularly convinced there’s a constitutional obligation to affirmatively tell people that they now have the right to vote. The right to vote has been expanded before at both the state and federal levels a number of times over the past 200 years, but I can’t…

My employer did not block Fusion, but now, when I try to access the new Splinter addresses for my formerly Fusion comments from my work computer, I get a notice saying the website is blocked as unsafe. (I’m posting this from my phone. ) Anyone else have this issue?

In regards to having “sympathetic” characters on both sides, you may want to familiarize yourself with Amazon’s series “The Man in the High Castle.” The characters of Trade Minister Tagomi, Inspector Kido, and Ober-whatever Smith are all technically “bad guys” in the sense of being authority figures in the Axis…

This is the thing that gets me in so many of these shootings — while it appears the officers were wrong to shoot the victims, the victims at the same time needlessly escalated the hostility level in the confrontations. Pro tip: there is virtually no situation where you can lawfully push, punch, shove, grab, or bite a…

This seems completely different than the Maher incident — Stewart was quoting an African-American speaker’s use of the word in a specific context where there’s no indication she was using it derogatorily. Maher was using it derogatorily and had no contextually justifiable reason to say it because he wasn’t repeating…

Yes, which is why I pointed out years ago on Gawker that the “Black Lives Matter” framing on police brutality was literally about the worst possible strategy if people actually wanted reforms to address the problem.

The word “shit” isn’t legally obscene, at least not since 1973 when the Miller test was adopted by the Supreme Court, because the word doesn’t “appeal to a prurient interest in sex.” It’s a vulgarity, but you can’t be criminally prosecuted just for saying or writing the word without some additional basis to find that…

There is a legal test for obscenity: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test The Confederate flag doesn’t satisfy it because the test is focused on whether the subject matter is sexual in nature.

Well, there’s a very easy way to find out if cutting the number of F-words would get a PG-13 rating — they can submit a revised cut of the film. It’s not uncommon for studios to resubmit films multiple times to get the rating they want.

I’m 90%+ certain Twitter users don’t have any legal interest in their handles unless the handle is also a trademark.

You could have just handled it in jest pointing it out like, “look, I’m famous now!”

And why, precisely, would EA want to include the real name and Twitter handle of some random nobody in their game? It adds no value to the game. Coincidence is infinitely more plausible.

Sorry, but Rihanna needs to do some eyelid workouts or something, because that is some weak-ass winking right there. Your non-winking eyelid should remain clearly open (as in the GIF posted by Sarcastro4).

The stupidest thing America could do in Syria is propose a non-UN endorsed“No Fly” zone, which is literally a direct threat to shoot down Russian aircraft operating legally in Syrian airspace. Good thing no one still running for president is that stupid.... (Graphic is from well-known extremist right wing propaganda…