First of all...four officers? I count more than that, and not a single one of them on camera did anything to defuse the situation or render aid to a man who had just been violently attacked.

Trumplestiltskin’s botched rendition aside (goodness, how delicious his isolated audio must be!) can we discuss the very real probability that, based on the statement accompanying this performance, he likely thinks “God Bless America” actually *is* our national anthem?!?!

How does okra work out when brined and fermented?

I didn’t discover him, but I never sat in that chair again after that, nor did I let friends sit in that chair. Eventually, they got rid of it when they re-did the decor. I’m also always giving people second looks when they’re sleeping on the bus or the train to see if there are signs of life, like breathing or…

Any normal civilian kills a 15 year old child and society and the justice system pulls out all the stops and throws the book at the offender - but when a police officer, who’s trained, armed, armored, is supposed to know better, riding along with another police officer, straight up maims and kills a kid, it’s just…

The thing is, if you call 911, the DISPATCHER decides whether or not to send police, and PD decides whether it’s a priority call or not. She might be the Beckiest Becky in all of Beckydom, but Philly PD has clearly been enabling her.

Maybe the customers really didn’t like the kiosk? The Wendy’s near my home switched to kiosks, and the girl at the register was bellowing for anybody paying with a card to feel free to step over and use the kiosk instead of waiting in line. Well by the time I found all the menu options on the kiosk and completed my…

If it came down to “cashless” vs. “cash only” I’d definitely go for cashless every time. Cash only is a quaint idea that totally glosses over the fact that plastic is safer and quicker. Unless you’re my 90 year old grandfather, who, despite being retired for quite some time, still somehow manages to carry around a…

Can we just fast-forward to the time when American Football is no longer a thing already? The sport’s damaging and dangerous enough, but for these kids to dish it out so brutally to a member of their own squad, ya gotta wonder about the prevailing mindset and culture that makes this seem OK.

I’ve always found the word “Queer” sufficient to convey my identity, but I’ve also had lots of odd reactions to its use, depending on the audience. It’s definitely fallen out of fashion, and had its meaning co-opted and is sort of trickling back into the vernacular here and there, and there are definitely people of a…

One wonders if their “6 weeks of planning” involved review of the Bill of Rights or even a contingency fund for all the lawsuits they’re going to be fighting off for police brutality, wrongful arrest, assault and various civil rights violations...or if it was all “let’s play soldier” and setting up judging criteria…

From a psych major, with a focus on social, and alot of experimental field work under his belt, I can say armchair pop-psychology is the BEST kind of psychology. The paper you cite is literally a textbook example of how to bake confirmation bias into your experimental design. Or did you miss the whole experimental…

Judicious R.B.G.

Even if that “$2,500" (which, yeah right, let’s see the receipts please!) is half a tenth of a percent of what the NRA spent on campaign contributions last election cycle, it still violates the law, and violates this whole ‘Murica horseshit they’ve been waving around since good ‘ole Moses was still their spokesman.

I never got the memo that dissent, personal experience, healthy skepticism, cynicism and/or critical thinking were officially all lumped into “gaslighting” now, so I guess I’m caught up on the current level of discourse.

So I’m worried now that the Trump patented brand of word salad is now somehow contagious...this was, ostensibly, an event about tax cuts and Florida small businesses, but so much Cuba, Venezuela nonsense, with a dash of Jerusalem (Florida = Jews, I know, I know) thrown in. What did they actually get down to about the…

Maybe creating a non-police alternative is the way. Aren’t average patrol officers in England only armed with billy clubs or pepper spray and the armed coppers are only called in for specific types of issues?

The allegation is that Starbucks is biased - so yeah, it should take a bunch of “anecdotes” to substantiate that. Otherwise, it’s just your run of the mill racist in a service job who somehow got their chance to mouth off to a POC and was called out on it. Nothing particularly Starbuck-y (Starbuckish?) about that -…

I didn’t have a specific anecdote because that could go on forever, but my question of how the bias gets into a company culture that goes to great lengths to *not* be culturally biased is all the more puzzling. Are any of the Starbucks stores run and staffed by People of Color out there selectively refusing the…

I gotta add, the RESTROOMS are ALWAYS a hot topic for Starbucks. From the customer surveys, management, the health department: they’re never clean enough, but try to get in there and clean them sometime and you’d think you just stomped a puppy to death and poured the guts into a frappuccino cup and forgot the straw!…