But why are the Metro Police even investing so much resources into investigating a pro-union anti-racism activist group? I would be livid that my tax dollars went to pay for spying on a completely legal, completely benign group.

Yeah, but the song (and Hurricane’s prison memoir) still inspired them to start trying to get him out, it just took awhile.

You realize that pop culture applies to more than just today right? These were all popular in their time.

I mean Hurricane Carter got enough handwringing to have Bob Dylan write a sound about his unjust conviction. He also got some very white lawyers from a Canadian version of the Innocence project to prepare his appeal and get his case overturned.

Woosh right over your head.

You mean like the movie Hurricane or the documentary True Conviction or the documentary on the Central Park Five? Do you want me to keep going or do you want to remain ignorant so you can be indignant?

There are documentaries made about how the CJS has fucked over black people. Murder on a Sunday Morning won an Oscar and is fantastic, Central Park Five is on Netflix, and though 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets is more about police brutality, it is also about how stand your ground usually only applies to white men.

But her skin color does play a role in what happened to her.

Because a lot of people take the guilty plea while completely innocent because they either have no/overworked representation.

Because Adnan was a white guy huh? Whatever the case is I'm glad people are seeing the justice system for what it is. A game in which prosecutors and police want to win more than finding who the real guilty person is.

almost nothing about our CJS acts as a deterrent.

Felony murder laws produce some crazy results. John and Don decide to hold up a liquor store. The clerk shoots John dead. Don is charged with John’s murder under a felony murder statute. I don’t know what the actual numbers are, but anecdotally, I hear a lot more about cases like that hypothetical, than I do of cases…

“Her 911 call was never played for the jury.”

I was really interested but then I did a cartoonish double take and read that she was black so I went back to writing a strongly worded letter to OBAMA asking him why he wont pardon Steven Avery (I mean, it is a state crime not a federal crime, I GET IT, but like aren’t you the leader of ALL the states? Huh? HUH?!)…

Sure thing. I can go have a picnic and have a beer or two, just like you legally can when you drive your car!

i really hate it when people say shit like this, because i live in a big city where riders are hit (sometimes purposely) by drivers all the time, and the idea of urban riding makes me hyperventilate. If I lived in the country, sure - or in a city like the one I moved here from, that had many beautiful bike paths close…

I agree to some extent, but:

It was 7 degrees this morning. I took the car to spin class and I’m not apologizing for it.

I prefer to run outside in most weather (my asthma acts up in some colder weather) but I go to the gym because I have little kids and the gym has child care. That being said I do laugh at the people driving circles in the lot to try to get a spot close to the door.

1) weather