The victim survived and was the one who ripped the necklace and ring off her.

I think that’s definitely the general strategy behind it. I really doubt that DAs will pursue the charge very often, but I’m sure cops will use the threat of it to try to coerce people. I don’t have much faith in the system myself and have seen first hand how it works, but at least it’s a system that, in theory, has…

The weirdly calm, but stern reaction gets lost in the miz.

Luckily getting a hate crime charge to stick means proving that the victim was targeted specifically because of their membership in a protected group. Don’t think we’re going to see much of anything come of this once it reaches the attorneys.

Great writing, Kara. This is some of your best work.

So you’re suggesting that we hold ourselves to the same ethical standards they do? I’d prefer a higher bar for my team.

Yeah, this definitely won’t provide a pretext for more authoritarianism from him or push centrists towards his side.

Yep, it and employs basically the same logic that led the Afrikaaner church to create Apartheid. If you’re claiming that earthly success is a sign of God’s favor, the implied message is also that if you’re poor, you’re on the G-man’s shit list. And if you’re on His holy shit list, why should any of us care about…

If you’re anti-choice but respect that it’s your personal decision and are cool with letter others do them, by all means join us.

A “legitimate police station” does things like giving attorneys access to their clients and maintaining a public record of who is being held. Holman’s whole purpose was to avoid doing those exact, “legitimate police station” things.

Switzerland has a very arcane system for dealing with naturalization. After you’ve been there a while, your local community has to support your application for citizenship, so that 260 person jury represents the members of her community that showed up for that vote. It’s more or less a local referendum on adding a…

Because I don’t need an understanding of the place that “the Moor” and “the Turk” occupied in the Elizabethan consciousness or to listen to hours of speeches from whiny college kids to be a good person, be aware of the various threats facing our most vulnerable communities, or to understand the need to support them…

So it’s not their responsibility to make sure that they aren’t lending their names and drawing power to someone like this? These are people that can pick and choose whom they do business with, not struggling artists who have to work with shitty promoters because there’s no one else that will book them.

This is all nice, heartwarming stuff, and receives plenty of applause, but I found myself wishing both Williams and DeGeneres had called Burrell’s actions out a little more explicitly.

Who would choose OU over Penn? I was going to go to an Ivy, but then I got into OU and just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to live in Norman, OK for the next 4 years.

The HoF is a joke. It’s all industry politicking and isn’t a credible curator of the rock and roll canon.

That’s the language that you see in a lot of Title IX literature. I’m guessing it’s just a TIX officer speaking TIX legalese because that’s all they do all day moreso than an attempt to brush it under the rug.

My guess is that he lied by omission on his applications, which generally ask if you have any convictions or arrests, so I highly doubt the school had any idea that they needed to be investigating anything in the first place.

she was in Face/Off though, which is easily an a top 5 all time film

from the perspective of someone who also thinks there are good reasons to build the wall, if that makes sense.