He punched a 77-year-old man, the man fell down, hit his head, and died as a result. This is textbook manslaughter per Florida statutes: regardless of whether there was a specific intent to kill, it is reasonably foreseeable that punching an old man in face could lead to their death; the fact that the kid was almost…

I can appreciate that the historical importance (and importance to activism today) of black-owned bookstores is difficult or impossible to overstate. But to what extent are these stores selling stuff that isn’t on Amazon, or otherwise readily available online? Don’t get me wrong, I get that Amazon is the great Satan,…

I get it; the network felt pressured and this probably wasn’t the hill Davidson was prepared to die on. It was surprising to me at the time that Crenshaw was such a joyless buffoon about it—he brands himself as one of these rugged individualist tough guys who thinks people need a thicker skin and shit. I guess that…

I don’t disagree, but I think that was implicit in Rush’s statement, and explicitly stated in mine; I was only pointing out that Rush probably meant hanging specifically when he said “lynching”, which might not have been clear given that the definition of “lynching” set forth by the bill in question isn’t limited to…

I think Rush was probably referring to hanging specifically. Obviously people have been murdering those they see as “other” since time immemorial, but the advent of using hanging specifically to enforce a system of domination organized around the concept of “race” as our society recognizes it, is pretty American, and…

“Lynching is a longstanding and uniquely American weapon of racial terror that has for decades been used to maintain the white hierarchy,” Rush said in a statement Monday evening.

It bears worth mentioning that even though this mini-series ostensibly takes place in the same world as the comic book, it isn’t an actual adaption of the comic book, insofar as the comic book follows a journalist named Matty Roth who drops into the city to report from the inside.

I don’t understand the regular hate Pete Davidson gets. Under “controversial comments” on his his wiki page, it mentions some shit he’s talked about the Catholic Church and Dan Crenshaw (so who cares.) The guy’s comedy isn’t my cup of tea, and to my eyes he looks like a weirdo (I’m in my late-30's, get off my lawn,)…

Why would you need to go see a WNBA game to comment on how much revenue the leagues generates, or whether the league is popular as compared to the NBA? RickRuckus’ claim is not that these women aren’t good at basketball, it’s that the WNBA makes vastly less money than the NBA (approx. $60 million in annual revenues…

She was arrested WEEKS ago and we are just finding out about it.

The headline here feels a little misleading, in that it makes the guy’s conduct sound more extreme than it actually seems to be. Per the 2020 Census, 47.53% of the population of Ft. Lauderdale is non-Hispanic white, 27.12% is Black, and 19.25% are Latino/Hispanic; if anything, I’d say it was unreasonable that only 6…

Fire them all and start from scratch with actual Peace Officers invested in the communities they serve, not oppressing them.

This is a very nice obit for the man. I wish I had been more conscious of who I was hearing when I saw those movies, and the dubbed versions of those various anime. At 59 he wasn’t a young man, but he was clearly taken early, and that’s sad. I’ll watch a couple of episodes of Salute Your Shorts tonight.

Do I need to play any Xenoblades to ‘get’ Xenoblade 3? Like, on a scale from Mass Effect games to Final Fantasy games, how lost/not lost will I be if I just pick up Xenoblade 3?

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – TBD 2022

I agree with basically every comment here criticizing Jezebel’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (and particularly ThundercatsRidesAgain’s excellent comment that needs literally all the stars.) This Zelensky thirst “trend” is a bullshit-nothing-story; framing Europe and the United States’ heightened…

Uh, those Russian soldiers are “peacekeepers” intended to protect the sovereignty of the recently formed, totally legit nations of Putinstan and Russia 2.

I don’t think the U.S. is a huge importer of illegal guns. If anything, gun violence in Latin America is partially attributable to illegal arms from the United States.

Dominicans have always hated Haitians and that hatred is very pronounced among the white & light-skin (“mulatto”?) class

Thank you for pointing out that this is, at worst (for now,) getting kicked back for a new trial. I had a few opportunities to practice before Miller and Hendon when they were still trial judges at the 11th Circuit, and I remember them both being very receptive and sensitive to procedural arguments (whereas other…