A lot of people don’t seem to understand that you can be a perpetrator AND a victim. Both of them admit, to some degree, of laying hands on each other. The degree to “who started it” matters if you need to justify why one person had to hit back.

There is not shortage of reporting here, on the Root, or elsewhere in the media space, pointing out Ted Cruz’s litany of failures as a Senator and human being.

This is an interesting insight into the priorities of a person like Cruz though. In a stupid hypothetical, he broke because the need to say the correct thing and also the need to make sure he doesn’t say the wrong thing are in opposition. He can’t be pro world hunger, but he also can’t have a sound bite of him saying…

You aren’t struggling. You are test driving excuses. Next. 

The author’s point is the experience of the subject of the story. Do you not think her viewpoint is valid?

Thankfully his gun jammed or this could’ve been worse. All the morons talking about how this happened in a Democrat run city need to step the fuck off. We have strict gun laws in this city and state so do New Jersey & Connecticut. That doesn’t prevent some moron from another state from getting a gun and coming here to…

Whenever police fail to stop a crime, they always say they need more cops.

But I also suspect the actual politics of policing mean this move will be welcomed by most New Yorkers, including the vast majority of people who actually voted for Adams.

The murder rate in NYC is 5.5 per 100,000 inhabitants. The murder rate for the entire state of Florida is 5.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. 5.5 < 5.9

One man slaps a man one time and is banned from the Oscars for ten years.

Boy, a Louis CK article really brings out the best in the commentariat.

Thank you. It is baffling to me that ppl keep saying he laid low for 3 years so all is forgiven. Apart from a public apology, what else has he done to atone for what he did? What sort of restitution did he make to the women who were affected by his actions? The apology was a start but with nothing else it is all…

That’s the bigger deal. It’s almost not even about him any more, it’s about the fact that the Grammys voters defiantly declared that it sure as FUCK wasn’t gonna be about his victims.

And I know half of America’s response to stating it as such is “And?”. Which just takes us back to the “I don’t how to explain that you…

Also, Lia Thomas has lost just as much as she has won. And there are cisgender women who have the same level of testosterone in their system naturally as she does now. If we are going to want to start testing for testosterone levels for all women we are going to get into really weird territory for women’s sports. I…

Urban camo. You can wear a safety vest and hard hat, no one gives you a second look.

My thought exactly as I was reading this. Give it an Adventureland vibe, bunch of young seasonal workers who really don’t care a whole lot about the job itself.

This would work well as a six-episode mini-series on SpiritHalloween+

Missed opportunity - the store sells masks imbued with an ancient Druidic curse, and on Halloween night kids around the country wearing their masks watch a commercial and it turns their heads into bugs.

If you say “Mervyn’s” three times in a mirror the ghost of Kay Bee Toys will appear to you.

That idea would work, especially as you can add all the existential dread that comes with knowing your job will only last for a few months. It could be like a combination Clerks and your generic summer camp movie. The only problem is that it feels too 90's and so to make it more current, you’d have to make one of the…