That’s fucked up.

There’s plenty of good reason not to use a taser on someone who’s mentally ill, especially if you’re unsure of whether or not they’re responding due to decompensated schizophrenia (mental illness), behavioral side effects of severe hypoglycemia (medical illness), or perhaps they’re in excited delirium because they…

From a policy standpoint, I think one large thing we can do is higher pay. Get better training, esp. psychological profiling, gets a more competitive applicant pool, etc. Of course, that would require higher taxes to fund, which I’m all for. But some people (ironically, often the people talking very loudly about how…

Not at all.

This doesn’t look good for her, right?

I hate all the “boys talk” about “girls” and “dirty and bad stuff.” We’re talking about a then 59-year-old man bragging about sexual assault, not 7-year-old Donny yelling the word “penis!!” at Nancy on the playground because little Billy told him to.

Russell Crowe is half Cro Magnon half asshole and has major anger issues.

As a general rule, that’s true! Odd thing.

Yes! That too. Ask if it’s okay to bring Lorde, not one of the Real Housewives!

As someone who has worked with mentally ill people, at some point the individual in question needs to seek treatment and take some measure of responsibility for behavior. As my boss often used to say (she herself suffered from severe bipolar disorder for most of her life): “Mental illness is not an excuse for bad…

‘I hadn’t been working with them long and suddenly Brad has locked the doors and farted and we couldn’t get out. He won’t have a problem with me telling you.’

Someone mentioned this to me earlier in the week: The Bush family must be sooooo pissed at Billy for not mentioning this whilst Jeb was still in the running at the primaries.

Way I understand it, there has to be damage in principle for libel to stick, but it’s so easy to come up with damages that as you say, its only mitigating in practice.

Do you remember Marvin Bush? Don’t feel bad, no one else does either. He’s the Tiffany Trump of the Bush family. Dubya’s brother is best known for ripping off the Silverado S&L 30 years ago and being protected from prosecution by Poppy Bush. Later he ripped off victims of Hurricane Katrina selling them phony…

There certainly are better defenses, but this one is great at its purpose, which is to slap an obvious attempt to intimidate the press rather than a good faith approach to resolve a problem. It’s sweeter because it does have a legal basis (even if, as you say, is very hard to uphold).

C students (and you know damned well Dubya had to cheat to get those Cs) who are accepted at Yale.

That picture of Stephen Colbert and Obama is pretty amazing. You can tell both of them are not only having a good time but genuinely get along with each other.

Your “fellow dudes”?

I’m British. Colour me wrong on US libel law!

God I’m gonna miss the Obamas. Here’s hoping she pulls a clinton, gets into politics and makes a presidential run in 2024 or something.