"hey guys you know what we should do to escape the gay and sexual overtones associated with the 'teabaggers' label?"

Y'all never met Binky. Binky was a polar bear with no sentimentality for people.

1) In an article about a grown man holding a preteen girl down, your first question is why kids are so vicious?

Most notably, the LDS church ended a very long, explicitly racist policy excluding black men from participation as ministers in 1978. So, one could definitely appreciate the need to have a continuing social justice discussion about participation in the church.

Gives "renaissance art" a new meaning.

"I would like all of the feminine hygiene products in your store. Wait, I'm afraid you may have heard, 'I want a lot of feminine hygiene products.' I would like ALL the feminine hygiene products in your store. Please bag them up so I neither have to touch them nor look at them. Here is my credit card. I will be…

You've missed the point. In most victim-oriented cases that are not murders, someone is physically present in the courtroom to say "that person raped/assaulted/robbed/kidnapped me." It is very difficult to defend someone facing that kind of allegation without somehow addressing the credibility of the witness and…

That's still attacking the underlying story. I suppose if you had ironclad alibi evidence, you wouldn't even need to explain why the victim was lying/mistaken. Most criminal cases don't involve 20 eye witness-alibis.

If you think for a minute, you'll realize why challenging an accuser's credibility isn't an issue in murder cases.

In other news, today NYC agreed to pay $40M to five men who spent years in prison, wrongly convicted for raping and beating the Central Park jogger.

An alibi means arguing that you were not physically present at the time of the event, which would mean somehow addressing why the girl who said he was present at the time of the rape was wrong. Trying to show that there was no intercourse would also be part of pursuing a theory of fabrication; since acts of rape can…

Uh, no, she couldn't have refused the case, nor could she have resigned from the case (unless you mean from her job entirely), nor could she have picked and chose among other defenses. You can't ethically refuse a case because you don't like it.

[gives up]

Isn't "The National Enquirer reports" the thing to focus on there?

I guess? It seems like the gist of the article is that Hollywood is generally tone deaf on women, not screenwriters specifically. It would be good to point to a recent example of a depiction of a very strong female action hero in a movie that (speaking Hollywood's language) made a shitton of money.

Pearl Harbor? Or if "breaking" means happening on live TV, the First Gulf War basically launched CNN.

Bummed that Katniss Everdeen gets zero mention.

Is there something more to this than "I've been alive a while, been to a lot of weddings, but still not married! Crazy, right?"?

So, in order to be celebrated, one must be "perfect" and "above criticism" and achieve every goal on your political laundry list? Sorry, that's some bullshit. Even if you could find a politician who agreed with you 100%, the nature of democracy would mean that politician would have to compromise with all the people…

The Obama administration has been an enormous supporter of the Native American/Alaska Native community. Recently, we saw the first Native American federal judge appointed to a court of appeals. Part of the Obamacare package was a huge fix for the BIA-administered health funds. The DOJ okayed a multi-billion dollar…