I don’t know what polite, civilized world you’ve been roaming in but even if you invoke miranda and refuse a search, if the officers want to search they will do that. I’ve been in the situation many times, they will ask, you will say no (and no, they don’t give me a citation and I go home, not ever), they will keep…

Yeah, the northern part of the state is definitely where any “hope” lies, and I’d like to be more optimistic but damn, I never in my wildest dreams suspected Dumpf would win the presidential election. I’ve been kind of stuck in “darkest timeline” thinking ever since. I just hope you’re right and there is enough…

She actually seems pretty great, but I live in rural south GA, and she ain’t got a snowballs chance in hell of winning, even less so the woman of color. Too bad they’re wasting time, effort and money on a state crowded with rednecks, proud of living lives like the ones she mentioned in her ad right now, and seeing…

Yeah, that “towing the line” crap is always troubling, on either side really. If you can’t approach each issue with your brain on, ready to think for yourself and make a reasoned judgement, you might as well be in the robot army, imo at least.

Man, I’m enjoying this damn show so much (esp. the last 2 ep.’s), that I’m seriously regretting watching it week to week right now. I need more, like now man! Noho is hilarious, every scene he kills (he’s my fav. but there’s good work being done by others too). I’m kind of sad they offed Taylor, I knew it had to…

Yeah, I figured it was a value judgement on the part of the author, but that may be sillier still.

I imagine most directly involved in politics or commentary on the left are scared of the power of that “silent” voting bloc that elected Trump, and of their future chances of being elected to office if they insult them further. Hilary’s comments on Trump supporters probably brought a few million non-voters to the…

I’m not a fan of BBT, but lumping it in with the abominable KCW and calling it a dud in the process is silly.

I’m even later than you, but man did I always love “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”. Also, it’s hard to take the writer who claims that the Dinosaur Jr version of “Just Like Heaven” is better than the original seriously, good god no.

You meant “cite” but the onus isn’t on me to do anything of the sort. I’m a multiple-felon, who’s been the victim of police violence personally, I know all about it. I agree that the decent cops need to start promoting that decency but I think even more important there needs to be serious shake up at the higher levels…

Totally agree. I’d love to live in Seattle or Portland but as it is now couldn’t afford to. Plus, I’m stuck in a backwards area, of a backwards state, in a backwards ass region.

Oh yeah, on a personal safety level, I totally agree with you.

Oh I’m sure the whole barrel’s not rotten, but it would damn sure be nice if just one of our cities would attempt to truly clean the barrel a bit. Hell, they just circle the wagons and double down every time. Disgusting. The suburban cops are the worst, they all think they’re Dirty Harry and wish they had something…

How the hell is a man a threat to anything but grime when he’s in the damn shower? I’ve decided to stop telling people I grew up in Milwaukee, it was always a heavily segregated city, rampant with racist idiots but damn...

Enjoyed the episode, although some of the stylistic choices grate. The song when she’s at the punk club just happened to have a line about the girl “with her hair up in knots”, so convenient and irritating to my brain. I disagree also about the “superb paintings” of Egon Schiele, never cared for his work, although I…

Great article, despicable idiots. One little note though: your use of “Chad” as a generic white boy name might be reconsidered, as it’s what the incel abominations use. Maybe Brett or Troy?

Wow, a bunch of interesting points and info there but I’m just going to focus on the idea that they turn outward instead of inward, and say it’s part of our culture of narcissism. I’ve met myriad people who have no inclination or seemingly even capacity for self-reflection, everything that happens is an attack on…

I’m in no way even hinting that Brokaw didn’t act horribly but this:

I’ve been hearing a lot about that series lately (mostly because of said Amazon deal), but have yet to check it out. Honestly, my fiction consumption has dropped pretty low, but man from maybe 12-20 I devoured SF, especially the “new wave” stuff (Dick, Delaney, Le Guin, Lem,etc.). Had a short second honeymoon with it…

The article stated that people were making racist remarks like, “Black people are ‘that’ way...” What way? Afraid of the Easter Bunny? C’mon people, this is just a small child thing. Tons of kids were scared of Santa or the EB at that age. Idiots. The people working there are obviously of the idiot persuasion as well.