Other way around; Tamir Rice was shot in Cleveland, Sam DuBose was the one who was shot in his car in Cincinnati.

With several exceptions, people in DC are significantly less attractive than people in other cities. It’s just how it works out. I say this as a DC native.

I know right. You can just smell the microwaved fish from here.

Ugh, you guys have to sit right next to each other like that. Gimme at least a cubicle partition thing, even if it only a gesture.

Statistics, which in this case is an aggregate of data applied broadly, are not always the most useful in determining whether individuals should be able to compete in their respective sports. Because everyone’s body is unique, etc. and so forth.

True, but then if it’s kickboxing we’re talking about, ciswomen have longer legs than arms on average compared to cismen, perhaps balancing out that advantage.

I think we can both agree that not every transgender athlete is going to have that kind of obvious strength and size discrepancy between herself and the other players. There was an article on Jez a year or two back about a transwoman who was prevented from competing in the Crossfit games. In no way could you look at…

I get where your logic is headed, but in powerlifting, for example, the strongest people (those able to lift the most for a given body weight) are shorter, with shorter limbs. Leverage tends to be a disadvantage. Admittedly, I have no idea how that would apply to boxing and martial arts.

Hormonal treatments often lead to significant losses in bone density for transwomen. Of course that would depend on how old they were when they started treatment, and their initial density and bone structure.

Just as in menopause, bone density can be lost rapidly with changes in hormone levels.

The relevant aspects here are hormones and muscle mass, which are initially determined by XY status, but that can of course change. And different transwomen are going to respond differently to various hormonal treatments. I’m just saying that with transwomen, it seems especially important to look at individuals and…

May or may not entail. Everyone’s body is different.

That was a really interesting and candid interview. I don’t know anything about fighting and shit, and haven’t honestly been following the sports-related discussions surrounding Caitlyn Jenner, but it’s great that this stuff is getting out there.

The swiftness of that indictment was, of course, propelled by the protests, riots, and negative media coverage of the city and its officials. Likely little-to-nothing would have happened to those cops otherwise.

They’re skin tags, which are like moles that you accumulate as you get older. Morgan Freeman has alot of them.

This song is truly the anthem we’ve needed for a while now. I think we’re on the precipice of a new MLK-style organized civil rights movement, and I hope hip-hop artists today play the same role that R&B and soul singers did in the 60s and 70s. It’s time.

Did you see Bernie slam Rand Paul’s ridiculous claim that universal healthcare is tantamount to “enslaving” doctors? Even Rand knew he was full of shit. I don’t know if the video will embed or not, but here’s a link:

This person posts the same made-up shit about Bernie on every article written about him. Literally sits there and makes shit up.

What you said, plus: the military has a big sexual harassment and rape problem. I hope this is actively being addressed.

Bleak, indeed, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.