The legal goobledy-gook is bad enough, even without the miscarriage of justice it’s wrapped up in. Setting aside the issue that he was tried as an adult (?!?) how is the conviction “murder” if he didn’t pull a trigger? Murder implies intent, even in the strange case of ascribing the intent of the police officer to…

I absolutely LOVE how threatened the arch-conservatives are by the Parkland Gang. These kids understand social media in ways their opponents can only hope to grasp one day (despite all the focus groups, polling, consultants and bots), and they have a legitimate, authentic and very high profile story to tell that both…

Gotta love a white dude on a spring weekday heading into a baseball game telling native protesters to “get a job!” Surely he was being ironical, right? /s

We only know about these sensations because of survivors of NEAR death experiences, so maybe the evolutionary advantage is that: if somebody does manage to cheat death, even temporarily, the stories they’ll pass on regarding the experience will ensure others are less fearful of death. Being less fearful of a painful…

The short answer is : No. But I’m wondering if whomever at MSU commissioned the work had a special request or focus on social media for some reason. Normally a crisis consultant would look at mainstream media and traditional national coverage with somewhat more weight than tweets from a victim’s husband and…

Half a million dollars could have set up an ombudsperson’s office for sexual harassment and assault on campus and seriously curtailed Nasser’s activities years ago. MSU is going to have to spend many times that now just to fill the vacant administrative positions for all the folks that are going to get charged, fired…

We shouldn’t need to ask for it, but now I want “Cruelty Free” certification on all the medals our teams bring home from the Olympics and other international championships.

Baseball has always had more than its fair share of geeky obsessives (mainly of the statistical-analysis variety) so I think its place in Gene’s vision of the future is pretty much guaranteed, regardless of his direct intent one way or the other.

Isn’t baseball the thing that literally kept the gorn and humans of Cestus from annihilating each other?

Or, you know, maybe it’s a nod to her Cuban heritage from a teenager who grew up in a state that places importance on such things, i.e. Florida. Still, a stronger connection to that flag, than Rep. King has to the confederate treachery, or maybe not...?

Uh, you get that people are born wherever their parents happen to be when the baby comes to term, right? It’s not like mini-RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer pointed at a globe and said “let’s go there” and mom & dad obliged.

Then run for something. Or maybe talk a friend or relative into running, with your help and support. Un-opposed slots are the worst - the candidates are often the least-prepared for the job and the biggest surprises in where they stand on issues (almost never in a good way). Even if they still win, the fact that…

Santorum says he wants them to “take responsibility” - these kids have literally been spending every spare waking moment waging absolute war on the NRA and politicians who’ve accepted contributions from them, and doing a whole lot of media and social media on the side to boot. Short of going door to door and…

Eric Garner.

Thank you.

NO.

Yeah...it’s weird how whenever I’m in conversation with older police officers or those who’ve retired or been promoted to detective etc. there’s almost the universal story: “I’ve never fired my gun in the line of duty” but these guys tend to be the ones who live or lived in the neighborhoods they patrol, they know…

The use of violence, on its face, is a failure - an admission of a weak position or inadequacy, lack of communication skills and an inability or unwillingness to assess a situation and problem solve. And so the use of violence in law enforcement (investigation, policing - whatever you want to call it) especially the…

How is it that US Police Officers are literally the only people *on the whole planet* who can’t tell the difference between a handgun and a cellphone? This doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world.

Hydrogen peroxide and chlorine bleach are both oxidizing agents and, in the proper concentration, denature enough proteins and DNA to prevent microbial activity. They cannot create resistance, as the active process is pretty fundamental, and not specific to any particular type of organism or structure (they’ll oxidize…