“Beyoncé received from police and anti-black racists for her Superbowl performance”

“prosecutors argued that the ban should stay on the books to help authorities go after polygamists who commit other crimes”

On the one hand, for the particular murder the person hiring the assassin is more culpable because the murder wouldn’t have happened without them.

“one of its more diverse characters”

The solution is to trade Okafor. I think that was pretty obviously the plan all along.

Weird because he was just getting beat up for not saying a fucking thing for 3 years.

“It would be near-impossible for Philly to pivot from a clearinghouse for draft rights to a real actual NBA team anytime soon”

while i agree, i find this particular example of sheer, utter, obvious, stupid inequity emblematic of why the rest will continue. if dismantling the NCAA seems this unimaginable, how do we fix everything else?

Uh, fucking labrums man. I just had a second surgery for my right one. I dunno. I’m not particularly enthused to see the results. Good luck.

The fake cop thing has actually happened. Obviously as you say fake name is more likely. Either way, it’s conceivable it was a fake cop, but the fact they filed a lawsuit against the department suggests they believe he’s a real cop or they’re stonewalling on investigating the matter.

There are conservative approaches to de-linking healthcare and employment, but to be perfectly fair I don’t think any of the current crop of R’s have even a vague notion of what those are, so it’s pretty clear they’re not getting passed anyway.

oh i guess you’re saying his good intentions with respect to the Democractic party. gotcha. i guess i just assumed there was no reason to feel he cares much about them.

‘ That’s part of the reason I’m skeptical of his good intentions as a “Democrat”.’

“Democrat = good”

It’s very troubling that this is an exacerbating factor:

Draft Michael Sam and avoid Hard Knocks? Love it. Gives em the opportunity to go 7-9 every year as was foretold.

[138] The success of this prosecution depended entirely on the Court being able to accept each complainant as a sincere, honest and accurate witness. Each complainant was revealed at trial to be lacking in these important attributes. The evidence of each complainant suffered not just from inconsistencies and…

It’s an absolutely fascinating for the purposes of social psychology that this even needs to be said.

What is a reasonable sentence for this do you think?

“libertarianism is pretty much in line with mainstream American politics”