this deserves more stars...

sorry not sorry that i’m going to snitch on your bitch ass and make sure the flight attendant forces you to check it next time i see you

no. She actually has been around for a while and puts up legit policy proposals. Some are radically right wing to the point of nationalism, but can’t really compare to Trump who is charlie sheen with worse hair

he diverted state school funding from public schools that educate the poor to private ones that educate the wealthy;

We stayed up countless nights in a row making the perfect paddles for our ‘big sisters’ — and when we gave our bigs the paddles they put on an act to make it seem like they didn’t like it after we spent so many days (and money) making them

this guy is such an idiot. He was out there marching with a racist white teachers union against gov walker in wisconsin. Their main objection was Gov Walker giving away education money to poor black parents so they can opt out of their shitty union run public school. He’s precisely the kind of “class not race” liberal…

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youre right. the pearl clutching in this article is laughable

“And the court of public opinion, while not useless, is not useful enough, because anybody who believed such statements to begin with is not going to listen to any debate on their merits once the words are out there.”

I think I accurately cut to the chase on this statement and am not being ridiculous.

I’m sure there’s…

Ummm not sure where you got that from. I think the defamation standards in place now are fair. But you’re conflating issues here.

(1) One issue is where to draw the line at defamation, which is a compromise between rectifying a harm to a specific person and the first amendment right to free speech. I think the standard…

he looked wobbly even before that play started

I guess, but you could say that about anyone who speaks about anything. I’m not looking to the courts to be ministry of what is true and not true. Rather, I want them to protect my right to call out what is bullshit and have a free and open dialogue.

You should want the same too. If you lived in a state where the…

Wow those two kids are acting like a couple of....

If it was a player who was hit late by another I think your analysis holds, but the fact that it is a referee, and therefore someone who is not a “participant,” wouldn’t that lead to the conclusion that getting hit in a back by two players nowhere near a play isn’t an inherent risk that he would reasonably anticipate.

theres fairly established case law across the country dealing with violence in the sports context. A lot of it comes out of lawsuits but sometimes it is a criminal action. Here’s an example: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewconten…

The fact that the referee is not a typical “participant” in the game makes…

I’m not sure which case reporter you’re reading but there is no “protected political speech” doctrine for defamation claims. What there is however, is the rule derived from NY Times v. Sullivan: that an incorrect statement about a public figure is not defamatory unless it is made with actual malice (or a reckless…

no we dont even like soccer really

little?

So we would have all been cool with Dick.Cheney@hotmail.com shooting around plans to privatize the interior and shore up false iraq intelligence instead of his whitehouse.gov account to avoid FOIA?

The rules are in place because those emails are supposed to be public to safeguard from that kind of fuckery. You…

they give you an option to get it slower and they give you credit to do it.

the caffeine in excedrin probably helped more, but i too like tylenol for headaches