"Kanye also insists in the interview that Kim and Beyonce get along. "They love each other. They respect each other. [...] When Beyonce is working on her album she has pictures of Kim on the wall because Kim represents powerful women."

The Wayne Barrett takedown piece in the Daily News is a thing of beauty. Guiliani comes from a long line of criminals who evaded military service. He evaded it himself. He has made statements critical of America, of course his people attempted to erase those from the internet because they are dangerously stupid…

Two years ago I was sitting at LAX waiting for a plane and PATTI SMITH sat down across from me. She had a really cool case with a bunch of stickers and writing all over it. I just froze and tried to enjoy being near her without being a total creep. I don't think she noticed me noticing her but I still regret not…

When you read that excerpt, you come to realize how vapid many of the current crop of so-called music people are today.

I have a long list of words to describe his actions, "smart" is not one of them.

And obviously it didn't cover his ass.

Yes! More busting of traffickers. More more more.

If the Department of Defense handled everything they do with the same intelligence and diligence as this represents, we could fund a social safety net equal to that of the best of Western Europe, with enough left over to make college as affordable as it is over there too.

Yes. This is what the department of defense should be spending on. If more of their obscenely huge budget was channeled into tracking down traffickers and helping victims of trafficking they could make a significant difference.

Ok, good thing in general. Now, can we please change the laws regarding sex work so it doesn't victimize the women it's meant to protect? Like, can it just be the law that if you're working as a prostitute in a sex trafficking ring that you're immune from all prosecution?

Do they, though? Serious question. My understanding has always been, in the case of weed, that federal law is actually supreme and overrides the state laws, but the cases aren't really being prosecuted. So, for example, someone running a weed dispensary in California could, in theory, be prosecuted federally, but the…

Enough to fill a gay binder?

One less witness to refute your story.

no aid rendered in michael browns shooting, none rendered in the shooting of the twelve year old boy in cleveland, none to eric gardner, none to gurley. Pethaps the cops wanted them to die?

the cynic in me says the only reason this cop is having to deal with his actions is because he's asian. thin blue line, very thick white one.

I disagree. I think Liang is going to be found guilty on at least one of the charges. He's a rookie minority officer lacking any institutional ties. The NYPD is going to give the D.A. this one. The department has done little to back him and even the PBA's response has been tepid.

This is an aside, but the article brought up something I was wondering: Do people outside California know about the history of whites lynching hispanics in California? Do Californians? I thought it was well documented and widely taught, but a recent conversation makes me think otherwise.

It's not actually clear that he was cat calling her, the real story is unknown. Carolyn Bryant said at trial that he asked her for a date but I think we can all agree that her report is suspect. Some said that he wolf whistled at her, another lynchable crime in the 1950s (1800s, 1910s, 1920s,1930s,1940s,1960s)…

The piece said 4,000, not 40,000 (although I think they will uncover more victims' names the more they research).