No Northeast bro? It's totally different from the mid-Atlantic and Masshole bros. The entire NESCAC is made up of these.

Is telling your readers to "shut up" in the headline an example of clickbait? I'd say so. Or, at least, commentbait.

Did you seriously put constitutional rights in fucking quotations?

This, unfortunately, is a completely wrong line of thinking. The ends do not justify the means in a constitutional republic such as ours. "Protecting" the populace by any means necessary is the hallmark of a dictatorship. Obviously horrific tragedies change one's perspective, but that does not mean it's OK to subject…

Go back to England, terrorist.

Who is implying that surveillance is new? I've never seen anyone argue that. What is new is the technology that the feds have access to today.

Writing an "I don't get why everyone is sooooo surprised by this" comment immediately exposes you as a complete idiot. You do understand that people can find this sort of thing problematic without being surprised, yes?

That's not the same as using malware to seriously damage or destroy the entire system, rather than tracking only those who they believe are breaking the law.

Essentially, you enjoy reading advertisements rather than articles.

You can always get one order of fries for multiple people. It's not like you need to buy everyone their own order.

A double quarter pounder with cheese meal at McDonald's costs approx. $7. For something that is at least twice as good and a lot bigger, I don't think that $10 qualifies as "expensive."

It is 100% not a conspiracy to believe that the government will abuse overreaching powers. It has been proven over and over again throughout history. It is the definition of authoritarianism to place your faith in the government, rather than seeking to regulate it with laws. As Thomas Jefferson (one of the founding…

Neither the fact that GZ followed TM nor that he ignored the 911 operator were disputed in court. Everyone agreed that those things happened. The verdict was that those things didn't matter, as GZ's claim to self-defense only had to do with the actual physical confrontation. Since the evidence was either blurry or…

It's fucked up, obviously, but that is what the law says they're supposed to do if there's any reason to believe that there was self-defense.

It came out in the trial that Zimmerman had had his nose broken and the back of his head injured by Martin, and the prosecution's own witness testified that he saw Martin on top of Zimmerman. These things alone would have exonerated Zimmerman in just about any state. While we can argue over the merits of self-defense…

How do you imagine that the prosecution could have been more efficient given the evidence that was available to them?

That wasn't a judgement call on the Sanford PD's part. Florida law prohibits arrest if there is probable cause that the killer acted in self-defense. I would imagine that the Sanford PD took Zimmerman's injuries as the probable cause and exercised the same caution in arresting him as the original prosecutor (wisely,…

"[B]oth her case and Martin's involved the invocation of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which allows citizens to use "lethal force" if in life-threatening danger, and both Alexander and Martin were African American."

"Not all limits on sex are puritanical. Monogamy is a limit. Where and when you can have sex is a limit. Being healthy when you're having sex is a limit. Your partner's consent is a limit. These aren't puritanical, and neither is barring porn from the app store."

So your three-year-old can download an app but she can't access a website? Ok.