I agree, but the bigger protection from that wouldn’t be from officers like this. As far as I know, very few of the police officers involved in these nationally covered shootings of unarmed black men have returned to work as a police officer. Put them on it, sure, but the reason you need to make sure officers who are…

I always felt like her being treated as a punchline was mostly from after they divorced (beforehand it was all just sort of creepy), which I think happened before too long.

In terms of the city’s ability to take it from her maybe.  The civil suits that will follow after this on the other hand ... not so much.

Yes it is, and as infuriating as the situation is, it’s probably the appropriate charge here.

I understand fog of war in an instant sort of situation which might lead to a lesser negligent homicide charge but watching the footage, even at normal speed, it’s a number of seconds that she had the pistol up and in her line of sight. Its got to be involuntary manslaughter, at least.

“Sorry Matt, no meeting for you, you’re toast! I’d give you a DM when I’m doing my morning BM, but as you know, Twitter censored me.

Gotta love it when a principal misunderstands an already sketchily proven pedagogy when telling parents not to be concerned about their child failing a test.

Is cancel culture real?

I mean, yeah sure I “gawk” at, say, the Marvel movies. I’ll even occasionally “gawk” at really high level DotA play.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a play that was obviously a foul, an election, a legal inquisition over adultery, or defending your university against a massive sexual assault scandal that you cover up by having the law firm that does the investigation deliver an oral report only, any time you are on a side that Ken Starr…

The thing is, the longer something like this can be stretched on, the more popular and accepted it grows, which will make the fight to make it permanent easier.

I dunno about that. The thing about these churches is that unless the pastor has absolutely control over the legal entity, the Board/Elders are way more invested in keeping their church in the mainstream than they are with their senior pastor. 

To the extent they come from different cultural backgrounds and also are at differing stages of migration and assimilation into the US, yes. I wonder about the differences in immigration channells for those various groups. if you told me that Korean-Americans & Chinese-Americans were more likely to have arrived on…

He then quoted from 1 Corinthians 7:4.

Meanwhile actual living Asian-Americans today probably shifted more towards Republicans in 2020 because of our party’s obsession with forcing every candidate everywhere to fight the culture wars going on in a relative handful of highly urbanized zip codes.

“Hypothetical crap”

Yes, it is currently harder to be a poor person in America, that’s true. The point of the sentence I wrote there was not to assert otherwise.

Maybe, but I think that’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

I think there are two questions you have to separate there.

In the case of Bridgerton, I think the issue is they were trying to stretch to do so many things that they had to fudge somewhere.