Thuggy? These good looking, sweet children? Because nothing says thug, whatever that phantom description means, like a big smile, a button down shirt and bowtie. As for being distracting from scholastics, seems like the school administration is winning that race, hands down.

Was he drug tested after the murder? In cases like this, I keep thinking there has to be something beyond just cowardice, incompetence and racism. That many bullets? Someone is deranged.

The basis of prison is secrecy. Nobody is supposed to know what happens there. The things that go on there are way beyond the pale. And most people don’t want to know. Nor do they know which of their elected officials is responsible for prison conditions and prison policy. Contributing to the imprisonment of…

The cops justify their own criminality by saying they are better than criminals.

Yep.

It helps reduce confusion if their cases end up in court.

In Montgomery there was an exact, tangible, victory to be won, and poor people put their lives and their incomes on the line to win it. The writers risked job loss for clear goals.

What you do is more important than your intent, especially to the man whose life you ended. But even then, what did this cop intend to do? To shoot someone without knowing if they were armed. There is nothing about fleeing a policeman, that automatically suggests that they are armed. Bad intention, bad action, bad…

I’m curious what percentage of police interactions involve a suspect with a gun. I think it the police who bring violence and weaponry into every transaction, not the civilian. Why is it their default mode to pull a gun? Cops in England are mostly unarmed.

There has already been deeply sad and disturbing coverage of the trauma children undergo in detention, even when they have their mothers with them. One problem the authorities haven’t figured out, is how to feed children the foods that they are used to eating. Children in detention are malnourished because they…

Dear God please let Trump tweet about this today.

Her fingerprints are visible on the tone, but especially on those parts of it like maternity leave that matter to her.

eating amphetamines like m & ms is just as much a good theory.

It’s the knee-jerk response of a grifter who thinks he’s more clever than anyone else to try to game the system, and to do it boldly, even flagrantly.

Trump behaved as a Hoover salesman. He created a following by convincing them that their lives were awful in the same way that a vacuum salesman convinces a mark that his product is essential to happiness. He convinced the richest, most comfortable, people in history, that their lives were horrible. It predicated…

What I thought, “what a beautiful child”.

You gotta walk in there extra relaxed, like this is a horseshit call you’re responding to and you’re just gonna maybe shoo some crackhead out of the house, at most. You don’t walk in that house with a hand on your weapon.What you say is so damn obvious that it’s amazing.

Wanna feel all cozy about W? As Texas Governor, he presided over 152 executions, far more than any other governor in recent history. Read Death in Texas by death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean for many instances of his utter indifference and unconcern about many controversial cases.

I saw a delightful puppy fifteen minutes ago, the kind that makes you stop in your tracks and chat up the owner, just in the hopes that you can be near it for a few minutes. Most of us celebrate puppies all the time, even when they chew the leg on your favorite design icon chair. Because their hearts are as vast…

He isn’t good at making me feel good, but point taken. He’s the sort of predatory man who would much rather grift in order to enrich himself than to earn his money in more wholesome ways. He likes to cheat and demean the people he deals with, not because it’s the best way to negotiate, but because he likes to cheat…