I don’t want to see cops treated like everyone else. We hold truckers to a higher standard on the road and increase their penalties for violations. There’s no damn reason we shouldn’t do the same for cops. We should lower the standard needed to convict a cop (if there’s no evidence, it’s because they covered it up, as…

*jerking-off motion*

No, no. I’m pretty sure the rules state that you get to rape a child for every traumatic event in your life. Since he survived two traumatic events, he gets to rape at least one more child before any punishment is meted. Though to be fair, he gets a bonus child rape for making that movie with Jack Nicholson and Faye…

No it doesn’t - check the ABA model rules. They eliminated zealous as part of the model rules for a reason. It is in the preamble but not the rules themselves - so it isn’t an obligation, it is a choice.

I know this is super serious and horrible, but their ridiculous attempt to be deep and imperious with a Latin motto makes me laugh because it’s total gibberish. “Obsequious” is an English word (“obsequium” and “obsequiosus” are the Latin words) and “sororium” is “gender neutral thing about sister(s).” So among the…

“dominus obsequious sororium,” Latin for “master over the slave women

I believe that was the focus of the defense in that the quest for that displayed lifestyle prompted the young lady to become involved with the drug trade. Also, she is quite attractive to most and it gives them an excuse to label her, make a statement about popular culture, and show bikini pics. 

Because defendant used it as an excuse...much like the drunk-driving ‘affluenza’ case. Somehow we’re supposed to go easier on her because she ‘fell victim’ to social media dictating her self-worth.

She stabbed two children under 6 multiple times. The little girl had defense wounds. I couldn’t give less of a shit about her depression. Millions of people deal with depression and don’t do things like this.

“Isn’t anyone who’d murder the innocents she’d been looking after and loving for over two years insane by any measure?”

Ortega told Resnick that despite killing the children, she believes she is going to heaven.

They’re good dogs, Brent.

Canadian farmers just over the border from his farm make almost twice that much. (American farmers made about $25 per 100 pounds of milk in 2014.) That’s because Canada has a quota system—and higher retail milk prices—that help its dairy farmers earn a better living

From the Peelian Principles, contained in the General Instructions given to every officer in the London Metropolitan Police from 1829 onward (emphases added by me):

1) Police need better training. Train them to assess a situation first. Maybe shoot last or not at all, instead of first? There are more dangerous jobs than being a cop.

At some point we’re going to need to make cops choose between valuing their own lives above anyone else’s, and getting paid hazard pay. The job isn’t actually dangerous if the default response is to kill anyone who looks remotely threatening, and so perhaps cops should be paid like private security guards.

I'll vote Color of Night, since I haven't seen Hudson Hawk, and I actually like Last Man Standing. I thought Color of Night was clever when it came out, but I must have been 15 or 16 at the time, so my taste was terrible.

Hudson Hawk is one of those films where I can't really think of a single good decision made by the people making it. Richard E. Grant has a very entertaining discussion of it in his book, With Nails, and after reading that I felt I had to see it. So I did.

I knew one dude in college who was obsessed with Hudson Hawk and both he and the movie were terrible but I at least give HH credit for trying some goofy things. They didn't land for me but apparently they worked for some people.

I found Hudson Hawk rather charming though insubstantial. Its a shame to place in in the same class as actual BAD films. Heck, some of his more popular films were just plain horrendous. Armageddon?