There are a lot of people who deny that bad police shootings, beatings, or abuse happen at all, or deny that they happen at a meaningful rate. Before we can start to find long-term solutions, we need to document what’s happening.

The police should set up a perimeter on the street or sidewalk around any incident or investigation so the public knows where it can and cannot go. Citizens should be able to film, protest, or do whatever they want that is not a crime outside that perimeter.

The police don’t have any privacy in what they do on a public street. They are happy to watch you, videorecord you, and otherwise observe what you do in public without any legal restraint. There are lots of people getting their cars bombed, having drive-bys at their houses, and seeing their houses firebombed, but I…

Being a busy body means invading someone’s privacy. Police are public servants executing important public duties. You are never invading the privacy of the police by filming them do their jobs on a public street.

Based on recent US history, yes.

What does he do with his bandages? Does he have a medical-grade incinerator out back just in case?

It’s interesting that the show takes place at the beginning and the end of the space age, roughly. The show opened a couple years after Sputnik. It’s going to close around the end of the Apollo missions. There are definitely parallels.

Eh, yes and no. The costs of fresh vegetables and greens would spike. But right now California is exporting milk and milk products all over the country, so we’re not just talking about California feeding itself. It would probably be a lot less destructive if people in Chicago and Cleveland drank milk that came from…

Yes, this is a completely illusory fear: “[O]ne fear of making water an open-market commodity is that rich and politically powerful communities would get all the clean water they needed, while poor public districts would be left out. A class system around breathable air has already developed in China. Is abundant…

This comment is basically foreign relations fanfic.

Well, you didn’t say that he’d do the bare minimum. You said he’d give a speech if Putin invaded Alaska, that he’d take no military action at all, ever.

Sorry, I misread your comment.

Putin’s saber-rattling and his adventures in Ukraine seem terribly short-sighted for this reason. The major effect is that NATO will put more forces in Poland, the Baltics, and other states bordering or near Russia. States in the region who might have taken a more neutral position (Finland, Sweden) are being pushed…

The Strait of Hormuz is the single most strategically important part of Iran, other than maybe their nuclear facilities. I find it hard to believe that forces around it would be put under control of anyone who wasn’t deeply loyal to the people in power.

So, US planes bombing Libya was my fever dream?

I kind of got the feel that there might be some Comedy Central tentacles on that final goodbye. Jon repeatedly made very unspecific comments about Sam “moving on to other great things,” so I wonder if Comedy Central laid down the law and said she couldn’t use their show to promote her new show on TBS?

The mayor isn’t responsible for these charges. The State Attorney is.

Essentially it’s the only way to charge someone with murder (rather than a lesser degree of homicide) for recklessly causing a death. It would probably be hard to convince a jury that the officers particularly intended to kill him by giving him a rough ride; it’s much more likely, absent other evidence, that they…

You missed the first part of my comment, or ignored it. The reason we can’t “make the distinctions you question between cops doing their jobs and those who violate the rights of citizens” is almost entirely because of the blue wall of silence, participated in by good and bad cops, that usually makes it impossible to…

I wish somebody could just say sooorry and then play a make-up tomoooorrow.