If you’re looking for a good set of resources on the actual peer-reviewd research behind race and policing, start here:

I tried this a few times and it worked twice and failed more than twice. But it worked twice! It helps that I’m a sociologist who understands Bayesian analysis and can explain research findings at a level accessible to the general public.

This is a pretty good list of what does. Some research suggests that AA may actually make the situation worse, and at best the evidence for its effectiveness is mixed. If you are looking to overcome alcoholism, there are much more effective treatments.

I want to say first that I know this is not an AA piece, and that it does not advocate any particular method of recovery. Furthermore, I respect everyone sharing what worked for them and everyone using every option to make healthy decisions. However, given the number of comments about AA, I wanted to chime in with…

That “20 minutes of action” statement is doubly disgusting because it not only implies that the rape was “getting some action,” it also implies that it wasn’t enough. The father isn’t saying, “Don’t let 20 minutes of bad decisions ruin my son’s life.” He’s saying “that slut didn’t even give my son a good time, and now…

Also, she was helping other kids who were with her. If she’d just let them scream or left a real issue unattended, she would be a “bad, neglectful parent.” Since she helped them and her precocious young child overcame four security measures that have worked for 38 years, she’s also a “bad, neglectful mother” and the…

I don’t think anybody has to be “in the wrong” here. She had other kids with her. She firmly told her 3-year old “no” at least twice, then her other kids drew her attention away for “less than a minute” according to witnesses. I’m willing to bet she didn’t think her son was going to overcome a fence, a thornbush, and…

It doesn’t matter who they’re threatening, they’re threatening the wrong woman. It’s not okay to threaten somebody over the Internet, especially in a situation as complicated as this. I understand there’s a racist and misogynistic reflex to blame a black mother, and also apparently to threaten her life and body, but…

Somehow this house is *way* uglier than the real Monticello. The windows are wrong and the arches are missing on the sides. There’s too much brick, there are no ground-level basement windows, and the gardens are non-existent. It doesn’t help that the picture is horrible.

It’s not generally about having “sex with sleeping girls” because most rape is about much more than just sex. It’s about power, and the drugs are about establishing the ability to take something. Plenty of rapists and predators could find a willing partner (the classic example being Ted Bundy, who was attractive and…

I agree mostly, and in general I think polls are more important as we get closer. The only reason i’m interested at the moment is because of a non-insignificant number of Sanders-first, Trump-second voters who are simultaneously interesting, somewhat baffling, and slightly terrifying. That was the most interesting…

The scary part right now is that roughly 20% of Sanders supporters support Sanders first and Trump second. In the last set of head-to-head polls, Clinton lost about 17% of the young vote and Trump gained about 19%, which means that although she maintains a majority of the young vote it’s not enough to win. In my…

I do, but I only make the cut-off by a year.

My fiancé and I have talked about this, and we will see this movie at least twice just because of the sexist hate machine. If it’s good, we’ll see it more than twice. If it’s bad, we’ll watch it, then go get drunk and come back and watch it again. Either way, it should be fun.

This is a great example of how much of a no-win situation poor mothers face in the US.

I heard the same thing growing up in the South, and I am baffled that it became the major theme of that war. One of the major reasons for the Civil War was that the federal government did not enforce the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act on Northern states. Many Southern states took issue with the freedom of…

Counterpoint: hares are not rabbits.

Mother Teresa confirmed for Cenobite.

So basically...

Yes, they are. They are a separate entity from the city police that employs 72 police officers (and 26 security officers) and have their own equipment, cruisers, etc. They do full criminal investigations, respond to 911 calls in the area, and until recently patrolled neighborhoods surrounding campus.