This is a complex case, and the zealousness with which some want to profess she had total innocence and should get straight up pardoned gives me pause... perhaps that’s where my comment came from...

Cyntoia testified that she didn’t have sex with the victim, consensual or otherwise. She was going from car to car at a Sonic asking people to buy her food, he gave her food and took her to his house, and made a place for her to sleep on his couch. Then she shot him in his sleep and stole his gun, wallet, and truck,…

Except it’s common for abuse victims to kill while their perpetrator is sleeping - partly because they have to build up the nerve, and also because it’s safer for them. When you’ve experienced the kind of systemic, humanity breaking abuse that Brown would have gone through, you think mostly about survival - so yeah,…

“Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16,” Haslam said in a statement on Monday.

Are we all really taking the stance that unsolicited kissing/fondling of the breasts without prior consent would be okay if she was a confirmed adult? Because I’m over 40, and will punch you in the fucking face—if not lower.

Go look up Tom Cruise + ankle + Mission Impossible. Or any production involving Jackie Chan.  

“Prolly” was used as slang in books from the 20's and was defined and cited in the 40s as slang for Probably. Pretending to be mad at kids these days, actually complaining about your grandparents generation.

Inability to read context is a sign of low literacy or a learning disability. It is not a sign of intelligence.

Wow, then she must just despise this dirty liberal.

I’m of 2 minds on the child support one. One says you can’t let people get away with not taking care of their kids, the other says people can’t take care of their kids while they’re jail (whether they want to not).

I’m really sorry that you had such an uncomfortable experience. I’m a mystery shopper, and “That’s our way,” means, “If it gets back to my manager that I didn’t sit down at your table, I’m out of a job.” Clearly Outback is not your jam. That’s fine. But don’t get all pissy at the servers for doing what the chain…

1: What the everloving fuck?

I feel like one should be vegan because they want to be - anything about the environment (over-farming is real) or health (that restriction really works if you have the means and time to source the proteins and vitamins/minerals lacked) or animal love (bet money if we were bug-size chickens would eat us) can be…

Not sure where people got the idea that you had to eat meat

Don’t bring trolls out of the greys.

“Hilarious story where Jennifer Lawrence gets high and accosts a random person!”

Not to attempt to derail your overly long winded attempt to cry bias without saying the word, but they did cover this, here. Back when it happened.

Hotels can’t just “declare” paying guests to be trespassing. There are clearly established legal rules that determine the circumstances under which a hotel may break its contract with a customer. Otherwise, the guest is entitled to “peaceful enjoyment” of the accommodations available.

She filled out the financial aid information for first-generation college kids whose parents didn’t know the ins and outs of the system.