Zimmerman had a history of criminal violence BEFORE he murdered that kid, and racked up more criminal violence AFTER he murdered that kid. He beat his wife, had an armed stand-off with the police, once beat up a cop, and the list goes on.

He was unable to make a career well before he murdered a kid.

Have you ever watched an interview with Zimmerman? He is a very stupid man. Not just on that one tragic night, but full-time stupid.

“I was just chasing a terrified teenage boy through the dark of night, waving a gun and screaming at him, and he attacked me for no reason!”

New Jersey really needs a new set of laws.

The death penalty is essentially saying “Killing people is wrong. If you disagree, we will kill you to prove how how wrong killing people is.” It’s illogical and immoral.

He proposed $740 billion for direct military spending (lots of indirect military spending comes under other departments).

I’ve had the unfortunate opposite experience. We’d go stand in the sun in 120 degree heat to cool off. We had eight cooks on duty (me and seven brothers), and as cooks dropped unconscious one by one we’d drag them into the walk-in cooler.

There was a part in that book Shattered which really defined & clarified the pros an cons of “identity politics” for me. It’s not identity politics that bothers me, it’s is cynical identity politics.

It was a Clinton-era regulation, but the law itself is a hundred years old and originally targeted Italians. That’s just commentary, not a defense of what was almost certainly more 90s-era neoliberal welfare-reform bullshit, designed in part because They really do hate poor people and immigrants, and partly because…

Dogs.

Age is definitely a factor. Travel didn’t used to faze me in the least, and my wife (seven years younger) still plans travel like we did many years ago.

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed...”

Most doctors, in my limited experience, hate insurance companies even more than their patients do.

No, immigration judges lack the ability to issue civil contempt citations. This is from the Heritage Foundation (of all sources!):

This race is similar, and has been a dream of mine for a couple of years now. I don’t even see what the big deal is; it’s the sport I was made for. Also, I am probably an alcoholic.

I have a Dee and Donny in my life. The problem is that my Dee and Donny speak Spanish, as do their debt collectors.

“What irks me is the absolute and total disrespect for a police officer service worker who, instead of being home with family and enjoying a meal and a football game, is patrolling his little town making coffee for a guy too lazy to make his own, while also being expected to unquestioningly kiss the ass of even the…

Naperville is about as white as you can get in a population of that size, except maybe in one of the Dakotas. Five percent Black sounds like a generous estimate. It would not be a bad bet that — of those 7,000 people — 5,000 of them were either young people making “jokes” to census takers and/or Official City Types…

On a semi-related note, Swiss Banks aren’t anything to fuck with.