I am sure you’ve already gotten a trillion replies, but this is bad logic. If you do not understand why that was said in this case, or why it continues to be said in cases like this, then you don’t understand rhetoric or implication.

I just linked to this post on my FB with that exact quote, before reading the comments.

God, the day that’s not what comes to mind. The day that’s NOT the truth.

Yes!! was living down there after Katrina (well, in NOLA), and my dad, who’s a commercial electrician from Chicago—now retired— did two month-long stretches in Mississippi.

You obviously can feel however you want. I do hope that this results in greater transparency, though, in how, when, or why this step, which is really exceptional even for high-risk inmates, gets taken...

I don’t actually know the answer. As others have said and we are all aware, prison is very dangerous and Holtzclaw is certainly a high-risk prisoner. I personally feel that the answer lies more in making prison less dangerous overall than protecting some— to an unusual extent in this case— and leaving everyone else…

But...the question, for me, is how you can distinguish between the two. Without some transparency, are we supposed to take this on faith? Just trust that the DoC is acting in EVERYONE’S best interest, nothing to see here, thanks?

There is a strong correlation, but as we all know, correlation isn’t a guarantee.

I am possibly the only other person who recalls and loves this game. An ex of mine found it again for me ten years ago and everyone who plays it loves it. It's cool!

I just bought “Mr. Splitfoot” after reading the description in the article. Plus, only $8.99 on Kindle! (Sadly a bargain for me considering what I’ve paid for some of my Kindle books lately.)

Off to consider “The Children’s Home.”

The 2000 election was the first year I could vote (I turned 18 two months prior). It was a good object lesson in why you don’t stay home if you care even a little about what happens in the next four years and beyond.*

*I have heard many people refute this with electoral-college-based arguments, and while those…

Well, you’re right: interspecies dominance theory is incorrect, outdated, and based on fundamentally flawed research.

Hailey is Stephen’s daughter. It’s okay, we all forget there’s another Baldwin brother.

I clicked over there because I like Mack, I have been following everything she’s gone through since that day, and I would theoretically be interested in purchasing a t-shirt to “support” the cause if the style and design were something I’d wear.

Those...are...not the style and design I’d wear.

I loved Urbis Orbis (lived a block away in high school, felt very cool and adult studying there). It’s crazy to me how different that area is now even compared to when the show was filmed.

Amaya!!

The calculus people expect a person to perform when a gun is to their head is literally insane. As if they would understand or handle the situation better.

Remember manicure-exploitation-gate of this previous summer?

I wrote a VERY impassioned response to someone on Jez who said manicures are, across the board, not essential and always a luxury, because every-ten-days manicures are the one thing that allows me to remain ten-fingered. This is barely an exaggeration.

Even…

Okay, so a quick skim of these comments tells me I may be a gross weirdo, but at least there are dozens of us.

(I knew about trich/dermatillomania before this, because see above, but that has never made me feel better, just more like an episode of “House.”)

IDK. When I started watching, I was familiar with this case (well, the outcome, anyway) from years ago and if nothing else, knowing what the verdicts were didn’t detract from my experience. Actually, I was shocked that what I THOUGHT I knew about the case was only a small part of the whole.