Did the shooter buy the guns at the manufacturer's store in SC, or did he simply purchase weapons manufactured by Palmetto State Armory? The article is a little ambiguous.

“Van Ness said sports are ultimately about camaraderie and friendship”

To be fair I didn’t really distinguish between his abuses. The kind of crimes they’re really active covering up in that show are not your garden variety police abuses—the Strike Team is literally throwing on bandit masks and going out to do hits and pull heists on organized crime and stuff. When they rough up a random…

To be fair, Vince Mackey wouldn’t have gotten caught this easily. His abuses were FAAAAR better concealed.

As a Cuban-American, I DEEPLY lament the fact that my people’s contributions to the American political landscape are basically utter garbage. Between Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Menendez, a whole host of lesser-known House Republicans over the years (to say nothing of the bajillion Cuban Republicans involved in Florida…

I’m pretty cynical at this point, but I don’t think I’m so cynical as to believe the GOP would try (or succeed) to create and put into force a code of ethics that only applies to the liberal justices. I’m not sure how that would even work--you would need to identify which Justices are liberal and which Justices are…

I agree that the punctuality thing is bizarre, but then I think a lot of what’s in the letter feels weird and out of touch. My position is not that Kunis and Kutcher are beyond getting a side-eye for this; I’m saying they didn’t do what Christina Ricci and half of the internet seems to believe they did.

Ironically, we almost need the liberal justices to be as bad (or close) as the conservatives—it’d be the only way to get the entire GOP on board with promulgating an actionable code of ethics for SCOTUS.

Still can’t tell. You’re more or less repeating the same thing over and over, but I can see someone doing that regardless of whether they’re genuinely trying to troll, or “performing” trolling.

“I’d say that Turner has pulled a Sansa Stark and rallied the North to her side.”

I can’t tell whether you genuinely believe you’re successfully trolling here, or whether you’re just super committed to performing a parody of lazy trolling.

There’s no point in our re-litigating the so-called “sex wars” from 1970s and 80s. I doubt either of us is going to come up with any new or novel arguments, and I don’t think there’s much or anything to be gained by reciting each side’s arguments like we’re putting on a school play.

I’m not defending HRC of anything (which seems to disappoint you, given how eager you are to affirmatively make this about HRC.) I’m simply pointing out that you’ve drawn a false equivalence, which is a logical fallacy, and are being irrational for defending it. Brand has been accused of rape by multiple people…

It’s the cognitive dissonance of writing a letter talking about someone, who by that point had been convicted, meant removing a portion of Kutcher’s personal convictions because they serve Masterson’s needs.

“This only makes Kutcher’s note to the court and subsequent apology that much odder. Someone professing his desire to help sex-trafficked persons might have been a little more self-aware of the harm his words to a court would result in.”

I’d be willing to bet that if you told Americans that the targeting and oppression of non-trafficked, consenting adult sex workers was a major externality or side-effect of tools like Thorn, a majority would say something to the effect of “if it helps save even one child...”

International parental kidnapping is a bad look. Hopefully she'll have better luck than Kelly Rutherford who has basically been railroaded.

I think that makes sense from a sort of bureaucratic/admin perspective to just hand out assignments and have the police work the non-emergencies in the order they're received—it just doesn’t seem reasonable to show up to take a statement from someone at midnight for a non-emergent call.

“Is that how you justify her friendship with an evil pedophile pimp you sack of shit?”

I don’t know that any level of seriousness or solemnity before or after the encounter would have made me think better of the cops here. In order for me to give them any benefit of the doubt, I would need to be convinced that the cops were somehow unaware of the fact that the way they handled this encounter would be de…