Yes, Sookie!  She hasn’t burned up the residual good will for that performance as far as I’m concerned.

That person you’re replying to is 100% wrong about the law and in fact is trying to have it multiple ways factually (she was off duty, but Botham Jean couldn’t have known that, but she was a police officer who identified herself, but she was off duty, and....yeah, none of that can be logically reconciled). but they…

By changing the scenario so that it hypothetically involves two men, you’ve deliberately removed it from its context.  You clearly do not know what the word “context” actually means and are significantly less smart than you think you are.  Sometimes it’s good to hush.

That’s partially how it works in most places (other factors are considered like the seriousness of the alleged crime orwhether you’re a flight risk for some reason).  The problem is that there are a lot of people who cannot afford bail even at lower amounts.

Finally, a plausible explanation for why that girl can’t enunciate.

On every platform.  It’s not just on here.  I see one and I know to keep scrolling. 

He reached his final form . . . . literally.

Honestly, I think it was yet another jab at Trump.  I read somewhere that he and Obama weren’t very close and had hadn’t had much personal contact.  The same article suggested he knew it would get under Trump’s skin because we know how Trump feels about Obama.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to remind us of Ted “Tubes” Stevens. I need a good laugh this time of day. My favorite part of his comments is missing from the image, though. The internet is “not a big truck.”

This is funny.  It’s because it also varies by how well you know the person.  On the first meeting, the handshake => chest bump method is the most tried and true.  It’s like basic standard dap.

The idiot replying to you is acting like this isn’t propaganda plain and simple. As though some of these kids being gas-lit by these cops won’t have their lives and futures ruined by the very same cops.

I used to work for a non-profit firm that brought civil rights suits on behalf of prisoners.  You’re dead right.  They were and are always scrounging and begging for the money needed to keep the firm running during these long ass trials with no guarantee that the grants they get and generosity of benefactors will…

Not only was the criticism measured and fair, Boots Riley has been out doing the real work for his entire life. Not just through his music and film-making but he’s been doing grass roots activism and organizing forever. He deserves better than what he’s getting in response to this.

I know I brought this up once before, but I know a white man named Tariqah.  It’s a trip.

That last bit is so true and why most language prescriptivists irk me. Dictionaries are not the authority on what’s a word or even on what words mean. Dictionaries don’t create words, they compile them, which is why they lag behind language. The people who make dictionaries will say the exact same.

I love hitting them with the “I’m black” when they ask dumb questions.  Watching their faces as they put that thinking cap on, even if just for a moment is so funny to me.

Yo! People often don’t believe me when I tell them that this a real, actual thing for white girls, so I direct them to the “lifting” tag/community on tumblr. It’s overrun with white girls posting their “hauls,” i.e. the literal thousands of dollars of mostly cosmetic products they have stolen.  Sometimes they are even…

This really depends on whether she’s a contracted employee (and what the contract says) or an at-will employee.  At-will employees can be fired for any reason or no reason at all, as long as the reason isn’t based in discrimination (i.e. racist, sexist, etc.).  Of course you can obviously argue that this *was*…

Haha.  I don’t really own anything of value either.  My will is very simple.  It says everything I own goes to the first person to get to my apartment and delete my internet search history.  But, it can’t be a regular delete, though.  They have to come with an EMP or something.  Nuke my hard drive.

Unfortunately, there’s still the perpetual problem of who gets to decide when to use her voice, likeness, music, other intellectual property, etc. for ads and movies and shows and on and on in the future.  There’s gonna be some mess.