Cops are trained to yell instructions loudly and repeatedly because of the effect that adrenaline has on a person's cognitive abilities.

I'm not sure if he's 21, but I saw that he tweeted last week that he lost his driver's license and had to get a new one. I'm not sure what the rules are in Virginia, but I remember when I lost my license, I got a temporary piece of paper from the DMV until mine was replaced. It's very possible he had something like…

I read elsewhere he might have had a temp. id. Many bars (esp. in college towns) won't accept them. He might have been turned away purely for not having a "real" id. Not a fake one.

That is such a good point. I was thinking about how it didn't help with an indictment, but that video definitely made the situation very clear to the general public.

I would guess it varies by department but something is said to the effect of "be clear with your commands so that they are picked up by the audio" while what is implied is that you need to make shit up for the audio because security videos are usually hard to make out so the audio is everything. You know, they don't…

I know it doesn't really matter in the long term because ABC or regular police should never respond with this level of brutality when issuing a citation, but if he did show his real underage ID there was absolutely no initial crime to even justify the crazy escalation by the cops.

If not, it would mean that there is a shared hallucination going on. How on earth do you intrepret that as resisting? A cop should be someone trained to accurately assess a situation and act accordingly. Seeing danger where there is none is not the type of policing we need.

I have no idea if this is true, but saw it on Twitter and wanted to share it. What's weird is that I became a gawkerite because of their story about the UVA girls who were terrorized by the VA ABC for buying water at a grocery store. My state doesn't have an ABC, and I do not know of a single justification for the…

On Twitter this person says he is Martese Johnson's roommate and that it was in fact Martese's real I.D. that he presented.

Is Poop still something you might put out?

It sounds like, either way, you run a legitimate risk of ending up exhausted and cleaning up poop. Damned if you do, dammed if you don't.

My meltdown was over food too. My junior year of college, I was so in love with a guy who was in love with me too, but in a three year relationship. He would later dump his girlfriend, date me for six months, dump me, and then get back together with his original girlfriend. They later got married.

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general.

My first semester of law school, final exams. I was so stressed, I wasn't eating. In fact, I weighed less then than I had since middle school.

Graduate student at Chatham University in PA, here. Chatham is the second olest uni in Pittsburgh and this fall will be going co-ed in their undergrad program. Their grad is already co-ed. The mission of women's colleges absolutely still applies, even on a graduate level. I have a totally different experience here…

I mean, obviously the nature of the campus will change. You may be losing part of the initial mission by admitting men, but you can still maintain the overall values.

I went to a women's college (Barnard), and many of the women's studies courses there were very much "gender studies" classes. I think some schools' traditional women's studies departments have even changed their names to reflect the broader scope of the curriculum, actually.

Your comment, to me, implied that applications would be down across the board. Kiss is the head of The women's college coalition so I took her comments to mean numbers were up across institutions, not just at her specific school. College is a product and women's colleges are, apparently, something that people are…

I am so glad you're there for them. I went to a women's college undergrad and two co-ed grad schools too. The difference was astounding, and it was both the teachers and the students. In the first grad school, classes were small, and after feeling frustrated, but not sure why, I finally sat back one day and took…