They don’t call it the Hollywood Herps for nothing. Actually they don’t call it that, not that I’m aware of. Should they? Probably not. How about Herpywood?

I bet it was just a poker game and she had a couple of aces up her sleeve.

He must be working some very posh weddings and office holiday parties!

I can believe it - dying in a fight must be extremely rare, with all the onsite medical professionals, referees, padded gloves and surfaces etc.

Separate topic altogether (and one I wouldn’t even attempt to dispute). Today we’re being outraged by people dying in local jails.

That chart is per-100,000. It literally means that of 100,000 white folks in jail, 200 die in jail. Of 100,000 black folks in jail, 89 die. So that corrects for what you’re looking for. It doesn’t belie a conspiracy against whites. You’d have to see the all the data: age distribution, natural causes, etc. Guessing…

Most die from natural causes (60%) - heart attacks, illness. Suicide is 43%

If you read the report, it actually indicates a mortality rate of a black person in a local jail as 89/100,000 and a white person as 206/100,000.

Yes, that is exactly what it says. A white person in a local jail cell is more than twice as likely to die as a black person.

I’ll tell you. You are overexposed to repetitive bad news. Whenever you are presented with a series of horrors, they appear to be an epidemic.

then we should ban roofs? Rooves? Top floor opens to the stars.

Here’s a rad idea - match the dose to the typical serving, or at least to a unit. Nobody breaks a damn cookie into 6 pieces and eats 1 piece.

On that note, I can’t wait to see the trains in Fallout 4.

I’m an Opera Guy. Chrome gets choppy too easily

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Exactly - the US media thrives on fear and hyperbole, because they have proven effective tactics to retain eyeballs on its content (leading to more ad revenue). It is the perfect amplifier for groups like isis and al qaeda.

Not sure it’s “all” about snobbery and bias. Two statements saying the same thing:

Let’s say I’m a career counselor, and I have a client who up-talks. Should I:

Also - don’t up-talk. I work with many brilliant women, and it pains me with they make excellent points / suggestions in meeting, but the declarative statementy ends up sounding like a question or a request.

“You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired,”