LOL for thinking Madison is in heaven.

Juries are not the norm for criminal cases in most legal jurisdictions. The absolute right to a jury trial is a very Anglo-American legal tradition.

I mean that’s one of the fonts of conspiracy theory: people can’t believe terrible things happen in the universe from random events or individual actors, so they have to invent shadowy hierarchies of order to prove the universe isn’t disordered and indifferent.

Try saying “Oh yeah, I witnessed the murder, but I’m not going to testify, because my testimony might result in the state executing someone, so I’m saying nothing, and the first amendment prevents you from holding me in contempt of court.”

This. I am neurotic and so is the other one, and we have often said “yeah, we’re mad at each other for something, but this fight is being colored unnecessarily by hunger/exhaustion/someone else being shitty to us recently that we can’t yell at under social standards, so let’s pause and fight when those factors aren’t…

“Why do bad things happen to good people?”

A pharmacist isn’t a state actor. Kim Davis is.

“People who want to kill will kill.”

My Pittsburgh area-high school US history teacher was a Confederate apologist. That is all.

“I, and other people, too, tend to believe that racial injustice is different from economic injustice; that black Americans are poor because of racism, more than that racism is the result of black Americans being poor; and, further, that racism is the driving force behind the capricious and fluid idea of race”

I was a lifeguard in high school. We were required to have adult swim’s when the lifeguards changed stations at our massive WPA pool because a child had drowned on such an occasion (albeit decades before). It appears to be clear, and we lifeguards were moving along when I see what appeared to be a tennish year old kid…

I feel the urge to comment on this one . . . don’t know why . . .

yes?

Not in the slightest! I also have the view that you should have to complete an MD degree and pass a series of board certifications to practice medicine. I take it that’s slavery too in your eyes?

How are restrictions on a profession, which you have no obligation to join, slavery?

Yes, the federal government must never interfere with local government’s quest to oppress individuals. That would be the true oppression!

My current employer, on its website, says the following more diplomatically, “you should like us because we’re in Pittsburgh, which has an educated workforce but is also very low cost. We pass those benefits onto you in the form of higher quality, lower cost services.”

“We shouldn’t be running the Anthem into the ground to the point where it become ambient noise while you eat mozzarella sticks.”

I like this better to concede irrelevant ground and trap gun nuts: “but I’m going to go out and get a fire extinguisher that happens to accidentally explode and kill people at a rate that is higher by a statistically significant amount than the chance of dying or being injured in a house fire.”

1) The slippery slope is a logical fallacy;