Calling him deranged is the problem. I’ll happily concede domestic violence is a mental health issue but calling him deranged, rather than one or two steps removed from the average gun owner, makes all the difference in the world.

That’s a fact we don’t know yet - did WSU follow the policy, or did they (as has happened a number of times) basically ignore it. This policy is mainly about fan safety from crush injuries in trying to get on the field and player safety from fans once they get there (the kid from Arizona who suffered a stroke from…

I agree they’d plead out - but to plead down, you first have to have charges that survive an initial hearing. Which means you, for all your vitriol, are conceding the charge would stick because they satisfy the letter of the law. Whereas asmallcat is asserting they don’t meet the definition in the first place. The…

Not a party, where intoxication and clumsiness often times play a role in arguing a lack of specific intent and you are typically landing on a softer surface than the playing surface at Wazzou (it’s Fieldturf, but that shit is not soft). This is like a street fight where one guy falls down, hits their head on the…

The definition is definitely slanted towards a “every zygote is sacred” approach, which has been part of the anti-abortion master plan ever since Roe. At the same time, if you call them on it I bet they’d claim it is to put 529s on a similar footing as trust and estate planning, which typically allows you to provide…

I love how she manages in such a short time to make everyone evil or stupid but her - Obama is neglectful (because on top of trying to govern, focus on OFA, and actually campaign for individual candidates he should have been spending his down time raising fat cash for the DNC I guess), DWS is incompetent (possible,…

I was always one of those people with their hands up, always wanting to share (and always thought I had the big ideas to share) - without ever thinking of who I was crowding out of the discussion (I blame it on mild Asperger’s not my Y chromosome but the two are somewhat related). I finally got it when women in my PhD…

They ignore the citizenship clause and focus on the “person” being deprived of life without due process and/or somehow being denied equal protections - but of course, that only applies to the government’s actions not private actions.

Yeah, but they do decide whether the protesters at the clinic get a pass or arrested - and how hard to investigate threats against abortion providers. To these folks every office is tasked with furthering their single minded agenda.

It costs them nothing in direct appropriations, but those legal fees can get to be a killer in some states. Not to mention all the staff time and energy wasted on this grandstanding that cripples any sort of effectiveness, and the divisive nature of the issue as a whole. But none of those costs ever seem to get…

The GOP identified abortion post Roe as an issue that motivates a slice of America to accept any other shit they do. They can be completely regressive on taxes, economic policy and social services, and bankrupt the country militarily - none of that matters so long as they wave the dead fetuses in front of this group.…

Give me one controlling precedent to that effect. One. I’m sure it will be easy, since apparently every civil rights action that relies on the status of the individual offender (that is virtually all of them under 18 USC 242 - I previously cited 1983 which is the civil enforcement analog) is unconstitutional.

There is a lawyer in Las Vegas who has already lined up one claimant and used that as a basis to request a seizure, accounting and potentially clawing back the money he gave away shortly before he started shooting. But even if the guy had 10 million that’s a drop in the bucket for the amount of surgeries, physical…

I don’t know why other people do, but for my parents (including my immigrant father who gets a pass as white in America only in the last several decades- his Eastern European nation was one of the targets of the quota system designed to ensure WASP hegemony before WWII and the rise of the Soviets led to an expansion…

Again, though, you claimed there was an absolute prohibition on this under the Constitution - there isn’t. In fact, I’m not sure how you think any of what you are saying has to do with the Constitution. We absolutely base criminal liability based on the status of the offender - which can include their job. It goes way…

Find me a “qualified university applicants being rejected because they aren’t a minority”. You can’t. There are certainly non-minority applicants being rejected, but it is their overall deficiency that leads to that rejection. Specifically their lack of differentiation from the mass of applicants to the school.

The amazing thing is, when white people do lose out at an individual level on a job/college spot, they almost always are losing out to other white people too who they could have the same issue with. I mean, I know that for most of my life, my fellow white people have beat me out for things where I could pick one…

I have - a retired colonel/ former pow posted an op-ed on CNN that started off pretty well about the status of veterans and the civilian military gap, then drifted into Trumpanzee praise (for basically letting the commanders do whatever the hell they want and paying lip service to fixing the VA) and condemning…

Having been a high school official some time ago, you don’t get paid much for a game - it’s a part time thing for these guys to pick up $50-100 depending on the league/whether it is playoffs, etc. Dudes who have done it for 18 years and haven’t moved up to college tend to be either in it for “the love of the game” or…

As a general legal manner (as opposed to psychologically), coercion isn’t automatically tied to custody. If it was no confession would be admissible (and maybe they shouldn’t be - even with restrictions on time in questioning and policies designed to minimize harsh treatment the entire process is inherently coercive…