Also WHERE ARE MY MANNERS

You’re probably right about this being a staffing issue. I live in Louisville and we have a Tea Party Governor (Matt Bevin). He cut a lot of diversion programs and we now have severe prison and jail overcrowding. Currently, our jails are operating at a capacity not seen since 2008, so they’re converting gums and…

Oh, I don’t. But, to go ahead and toot my own horn, I agree, it’d be nice! I am a firm believer in fairness and human dignity, and that seems like it oughta be a minimum requirement.

It’s a set-up to fail. Kudos on managing it! But oh this is so wrong.

She’s a very young woman herself too, and this warrior judge woman. I think I’m in crush.

As someone who had to go through this, I can attest to the difficulties.

The other thing I notice is that Wolf repeatedly apologizes to the woman and notes how humiliating this must be for her. The judge is not a hero—but this should be obvious to anyone who recognizes that black women possess the same humanity as everyone else.

It is so refreshing to read a GOOD judge story.

I love that she basically told the woman to sue (as she should!): “There’s only one way that’s going to get corrected, if you know what I mean.”

I’m also curious how she failed to complete the program, given that some of this usually involves paying fees.

We really need to overhaul the entire justice system - not just our police forces - all of it. Our training, our hiring practices, psych evaluations, the policing culture, everything from the bottom up.

Ditto. Handsome kid, but from this vantage point, very much a kid. The idea of thinking of him that way is just, well, creepy.

nope. He looks too intense; as in that "see I'm trying to look intense" way. But really they fold like a little, bitty baby if their pot isn't delivered on time or Mom washed the wrong jeans.

Right? I’m 34 and I’m like, nope. This kid looks like he’s in high school. I imagine he smells like Axe body spray, hair gel, and weed. Or, like, an Abercrombie & Fitch, Red Bull, and the Febreeze his mother sprays around his bedroom. Nope.

I don’t want to know about your fetish ;)

I’m sure he’ll be carefully groomed for a future in politics if he chooses. Although this photo set won’t help him, if you want to show off your body you’ve got to make the poses look natural like JFK used to. Like you’re just you know hanging out on the beach, on a boat or riding a horse shirtless through a mist.

I’m middle-aged, so he looks twelve to me. No thanks.

Have you seen young Tim Kaine?

This is maybe my favourite collection of words in the English language: