I think that's pretty much the only classy thing about me.

I was a prosecutor in the State Attorney's Office for nearly a decade. In my experience, 95% of cops are good, honorable people trying their damned best to do a hard job. But the lengths that the rest of them will go to in order to protect themselves from punishment or criticism, or simply to punish those they feel…

It's only false equivalence if you don't know what false or equivalence means. "I don't identify with [large and varied group] because I don't agree with [small portion of group or singular event]". You can slot both examples in there, so they are equivalent. But fine, even if you ignore my example, the simple fact is…

I'm sure you think that your statements were reasonable. There was no need for you to confirm it.

Look you seem like a nice person who is trying to make sense of this. So I am going to try my best to give some answers here.

Good point, Jim! Let's explore what I did in the blog post you mentioned versus what Robby's doing, shall we?

We have smoke and carbon detectors, 2 on every floor, and me with my intact sense of smell as backup :)

They arrived at 1:30 am with all 4 bottles of wine intact. Huzzah!

Yes, he was equally squicked out and I just laughed, and laughed and laughed. It's all very funny, until something like this happens to me, as well.

That makes sense. I grew up with a brother only a couple years younger, so there wasn't a lot of accommodating to the younger kid because we were so close in age. Now I wish my parents would've read to us more!

I think you mean Schrödinger's scat, ;)

My five year old son once informed my husband and I that he hears us cuddle through his bedroom wall. When I asked what he meant, he became extremely embarrassed and changed the subject. Having our own horrific memories of parental sexy time, we knew changing the subject would not erase the memory burned into our…

And then he lied about the actions of his superior, saying the guy yelled at him and threatened him. Turned out had a recording proving he was lying. That's when he was finally fired. Then became police chief of a neighboring town.

This is a reasoned , cogent, well-thought point.

I am so over it

Ugh.

Sounds like those Marines were arseholes themselves, not willing to help until they felt it was one of "their" women.

Another German here. This was not a classic case of street harassment, not that this makes much of a difference. The guy started a scuffle with two young girls inside a restaurant. They were apparently aquainted to this guy and his friend. Tugce came to their aid. The two girls have not come forward yet btw. The guy…

Hi. German here. Here is a link from the Frankfurter Allgemeine about this case. This story certainly does not say that the accused murderer and his friends are being coddled. I assure this is an extremely unlikely scenario, that a foreign national would be "coddled" by the Polizei here. Germany has a different legal…

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