I guess what I'm really wondering is the extent to which this is institutionally encouraged.

Can someone explain to me — is the use of phrases like "stop resisting" and "get down" and "hands behind your back" (and even "he's going for my gun") when they do not match reality something that cops are now specifically trained on because of the prevalence of filming?

Yeah, I'm guessing we're going to see a flood of eyewitness info come out. The reason I was curious about his actual age is that I can see a technically-under-21 but ALMOST 21 student handing over their ID at the door in a "come on, I'm like a week away..." sort of way. (Clearly this is all rampant speculation on my…

Thanks for sharing this. I had wondered whether the "fake ID" thing was verified. I mean, it doesn't matter in the sense that holy fuck this is not how we should or usually do treat underage students with fakes, but if it really was a false alarm, all the worse.

Wyoming, however, is far behind the curve, not seeing pay equality until approximately 2159. That means, according to The Daily Beast, that a girl born in Wyoming today wouldn't even come close to seeing pay equality and even if she were born in 2100, the gap would close just as she's about to retire.

It's an easy target, and I love it for how thoroughly and stubbornly it embraces that.

It definitely goes back way further than that. My parents (born in the 50s) always reminisce about the day(s) they figured out "what scrapple is." It's been around for a long time...traveled down from PA Dutch country generations ago.

Baltimore! Baltimore loves scrapple!

I second Dust's comment! Cosmetics companies have all sorts of different products for women with skin prone to breakouts. It's just a matter of trying out products and finding those that work from you. Sephora, which stocks tons of brands, is great about giving you samples of products to try out before you commit to…

Yes. Literally. Nebraska even had a whole tourism thing about being "the beginning of the West" at the 100th meridian or whatever.

Montana through New Mexico are part of the West, though. I mean, you can squabble about mountain west vs. southwest vs. Pacific coast, but it's not like that's inaccurate.

There was a nun who used to babysit me who did many amazing things, but among them was getting arrested repeatedly for protesting US action in South America.

On the one hand, yes, it's all relative.

But then again...what percentage of women know that feminist theory is a thing? Does that preclude them from speaking out about their experiences? It shouldn't, right? Theory is important, but practice has immediate impact. I'm glad a guy who's so popular with men in my age bracket is validating the necessity of…

Exactly. Exactly. It's maddening when people let "perfect" become the enemy of "good" on topics of advocacy that matter so much. Nobody is saying we need to put up a statue in his honor, but christ, let's at least not pick him to bits when he's up there deliberately making comedy that has the potential to educate…

Jesuits! Come get your man. If you're gonna claim #coolpope we're also gonna hold you extra accountable for shit like this.

Yes, thank you. FERPA is actually largely in place to protect students' rights to their records and delineate/limit explicitly who has access to what information. This is not the first time I've heard of a university using it as a justification for mining student records during sexual assault cases, and it probably…

Being Lucy Lawless is probably pretty great. Like, there are worst ways to be typecast and also she got to be in Parks and Rec.

Hi, a word of hope: I think the more revelatory part of this poll is probably in the "somewhat" part. Most people these days are relatively skeptical of news outlets, because the culture around news has really, really changed — you can tailor the news you see, people see news as inherently biased, etc. Fox's whole…

The kind who still talk about the dustpan and brush on my one cousin's registry...